Food Category Details

Soft white sugar, soft brown sugar, glucose syrup, dried glucose syrup, raw cane sugar (11.1.3)

Description:
Soft white sugar is fine grain purified, moist sugar, that is white in color. Soft brown sugar is fine grain moist sugar that is light to dark brown in color. Glucose syrup is a purified concentrated aqueous solution of nutritive saccharides derived from starch and/or inulin.¹ Dried glucose syrup is glucose syrup from which water has been partially removed. Raw cane sugar is partially purified sucrose crystallized from partially purified cane juice without further purification.²

This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

This food category is listed in the Annex to Table 3. Unless specifically indicated below, food additive provisions implied by Table 3 do not automatically apply to this category.

Items in uppercase (e.g. PHOSPHATES) refer to food additive groups.