As it undergoes more processing, which rids it of more moisture than brown or raw sugar, white sugar tends to have a firm structure and extends that characteristic to the cookies it goes into.

Growing health and fitness awareness is leading to reduced use of refined white sugar in favor of healthier alternatives like jaggery, honey, dates, coconut sugar, stevia, palm sugar, and agave ...

Raw sugar futures rose on Wednesday ... Datagro estimated it at 42.35 million tons. * White sugar rose 1.7%, at $533.20 a metric ton. * New York cocoa settled up $53, or 0.6%, to $8,355 a ton.

Raw sugar settled down 0.13 cents ... while sugar production was down 19%. White sugar fell 0.4% at $535.70 a ton. New York cocoa settled up $63, or 0.8%, to $8,042 a ton. It had a weekly gain ...

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK25) today is down -0.06 (-0.32%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK25 ... SA took record delivery of 1.7 MMT of raw sugar against the March NY futures contract ...