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Organic Evaporated Cane Juice.
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Organic Evaporated Cane Juice.
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About the Brand
Wholesome Sweeteners brings the very best of nature's sweetness to you and your family every day. Wholesome believes in traditional ways, artisanal products and a very light environmental footprint. After searching the world for the best products, Wholesome has focused on the tropics, where the climate and conditions are just right for growing organic sweeteners. With Fair Trade Certified™ organic and natural sweeteners from Central and South America and Africa, Wholesome is committed to making the world a sweeter place, one spoonful at a time.
Company Overview
- Founded in 1995 in Sugar Land, Texas, Wholesome Sweeteners supplies the American market the highest quality natural and organic sweeteners from around the world.
- Wholesome Sweeteners pioneered efforts to bring sugar and honey into the Fair Trade movement and was the first to bring Fair Trade Certified sweeteners to American markets. Wholesome Sweeteners now offers a wide range of Fair Trade Certified, organic and natural sweeteners produced by traditional methods from nature’s best resources.
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Social Responsibility
The Fair Trade Certified™ logo represents Wholesome's commi™ent to consumers that a fair premium price is paid to the farmers’ cooperatives that supply Wholesome’s Fair Trade products.
Since initiating the Fair Trade Certified program in 2005, Wholesome Sweeteners has paid more than $800,000 directly to Fair Trade cooperative partners in Costa Rica, Malawi, Mexico and Paraguay. Fair Trade means that farmers can send their kids to school, keep their land, develop the quality of their harvest and build thriving communities.
Beyond the parameters of Fair Trade Certification, Wholesome selects suppliers based on a demonstrated commi™ent to social responsibility and community outreach.
Environmental Responsibility
Wholesome Sweeteners' ethos is shaped by a deep concern for the long-term health of the planet and all of its inhabitants.
The USDA Organic logo is Wholesome's promise that we hold every product to the highest environmental standard. Each product bearing the USDA Organic logo has been grown and milled to USDA Organic standards, without the aid of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or chemicals.
Wholesome uses traditional methods:
- Fair Trade certification includes a commitment to sustainable agriculture. In recent years, unprecedented acreage has been converted from conventional agriculture to organic cultivation, reducing exposure to pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.
- From the seed stock to harvest, our sugar cane is cultivated and harvested by hand and grown without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides.
- Wholesome’s cane fields are never burned. During the harvest, trimmings are allowed to stay where they fall, decomposing naturally, returning nutrients to the soil, helping protect topsoil and ground water and providing habitat for wildlife.
- At the small mills in Costa Rica, Malawi and Paraguay, our sweeteners are made simply and the spent sugar cane, called bagasse, is often recycled as fuel to generate electricity for the mill and nearby villages.
- Deep in Southern Mexico’s jungles, honeybees browse on lush wildflowers without exposure to antibiotics or chemicals.
Product Description
Turbinado's golden crunchy crystals, produced from 100% organically grown sugar cane, are perfect for gourmet coffee, tea, beverages and as a crunchy topping. Made by crushing the freshly-cut cane to squeeze out excess juice, Turbinado is rich in molasses, vitamins and minerals. Cane juice is simply thickened through the evaporation of excess moisture to form a heavy syrup. The syrup is crystallized in a centrifuge, or turbine, to produce the large sparkling golden crystals--hence the name, Turbinado. It is the ultimate topping for cakes, cookies, muffins, crumbles and pies and a wonderful start to the day sprinkled on cereal or fruit. Use as a 1-for-1 replacement for refined white sugar. Organic and kosher certified. Suitable for vegan, vegetarian, halal and plant-based diets. Turbinado is not colored or blended and no animal byproducts are used in its production.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
If you're looking for a well priced raw organic sugar with a good flavor you won't do much better than buying this from Amazon. I really like the flavor of this sugar and while I like some of their Fair Trade sugars a little better (their non-organic Turbinado from Malawi is hard to beat) I've got little kids so I'm trying to stick with organic products when possible.
Someone in a previous review claimed this is bleached. They may be mistaking this for a "brown" sugar (which isn't bleached but it is refined into a white sugar [often using an acid] and then the molasses is added back in). As the name makes clear this is a raw Turbinado sugar. That means it is raw cane that is spun in a low speed centrifuge (i.e. "turbine") just enough to remove most of the cane plant detritus. While this version is raw you can find plenty of Turbinado sugar that has been baked or steamed.
You can use this sugar pretty much anywhere you've been using regular white sugar. If you've got a recipe that calls for bakers sugar then this will probably be too coarse. This won't melt as easily as white sugar: I find that around 375 degrees it caramelizes nicely but at 350 I still get crunchy bits of sugar. I kind of like the crunchy bits but if you don't turn the heat up a notch. If you are putting this in cereal it won't dissipate as easily as plain white sugar but this isn't something that ever bothered me. I like that is has a more interesting flavor than white sugar and that lets me use a little less of it. Anything that helps the waste line is a good thing in my book.
Incidentally if you are shopping around and see something called "Demerara" sugar it's just the English name for sugar made in pretty much the same way as Turbinado sugar (there are text book definitions of these things but most of the sugar makes aren't reading them so don't get too worked up about the name).
Someone in a previous review claimed this is bleached. They may be mistaking this for a "brown" sugar (which isn't bleached but it is refined into a white sugar [often using an acid] and then the molasses is added back in). As the name makes clear this is a raw Turbinado sugar. That means it is raw cane that is spun in a low speed centrifuge (i.e. "turbine") just enough to remove most of the cane plant detritus. While this version is raw you can find plenty of Turbinado sugar that has been baked or steamed.
You can use this sugar pretty much anywhere you've been using regular white sugar. If you've got a recipe that calls for bakers sugar then this will probably be too coarse. This won't melt as easily as white sugar: I find that around 375 degrees it caramelizes nicely but at 350 I still get crunchy bits of sugar. I kind of like the crunchy bits but if you don't turn the heat up a notch. If you are putting this in cereal it won't dissipate as easily as plain white sugar but this isn't something that ever bothered me. I like that is has a more interesting flavor than white sugar and that lets me use a little less of it. Anything that helps the waste line is a good thing in my book.
Incidentally if you are shopping around and see something called "Demerara" sugar it's just the English name for sugar made in pretty much the same way as Turbinado sugar (there are text book definitions of these things but most of the sugar makes aren't reading them so don't get too worked up about the name).
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By P. A. Grohs
Turbinado's Raw Sugar is the best out of the many other brands I've tried...This product adds a natural sweet taste, especially whith coffee...Not overpowering, just a smooth natural flavor...
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By E. Mack
Amazon Verified Purchase
Been purchasing this product for years. I have enjoyed it's dark color and molasses like taste. I opened a new shipment this morning and immediately noticed that the color of the produce has changed. Instead of the usual dark amber color, the sugar is almost blond. Upon tasting it I found that along with the loss of color it has also lost much of it's unique taste. It's almost like using white sugar. I think this will be the LAST order from this supplier for me.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Way better than pure granulated white sugar
This adds great flavor yo your coffee or whatever you use it on or with. It's the only sugar I use except for baking.
Published 2 months ago by J. Flynn
5.0 out of 5 stars
LOVE this product!
I have purchased this item and brand several times now, usually in bulk. It is a much healthier alternative to white sugar. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Heavncentt
4.0 out of 5 stars
Better choice
I am not a huge sugar user...but I don''t like using white processed sugar at all.
A much better alternative - appears to have a lower glycemic index. Read more
A much better alternative - appears to have a lower glycemic index. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Janet K. Genot
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent purchase
This is a great product & so glad I found it on Amazon-thanks for the good service.
Published on July 25, 2010 by Queenie1330
5.0 out of 5 stars
Delicious
This is my favorite sugar for my morning cup of coffee. It's sweet and has a nice bit of molasses flavor without being too dark or too flavored. Read more
Published on July 2, 2010 by Shala Kerrigan
5.0 out of 5 stars
Closest taste to natural sugar
If you are looking for natural sugar- then end your search right here. I have tried a variety of raw sugar products, I finally found the taste that I ve been looking for in this... Read more
Published on January 21, 2010 by Lazy Susan
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Taste, Great Price!
Turbinado, not even organic, sugar runs over $4.00 per pound in our local store. Hubby won't use any sugar replacements and likes the taste of turbinado sugar, so it's the lesser... Read more
Published on July 30, 2009 by D. Figueroa
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful natural cane sugar flavor
When I was a child an annual tradition in the Fall was to buy stalks of sugar cane at the local farmers' market. Read more
Published on March 31, 2009 by Once in a while
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gosh Darn, This Stuff Is Good!
The title says it all. Adds so-o-o-o much body and flavor to coffee, baking--anything that you'd could possibly need sugar for. Moreover, it's actually nutritious. Read more
Published on November 9, 2008 by Rachel L. Barr
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Taste and Great Price
We love organic raw sugar at my house, but it's so expensive to buy the little boxes at the grocery store. Read more
Published on July 21, 2008 by Jeannie A. Allen
