>Another example is sugar cane, which is quite edible raw.   How much can be
done
>to paleo sugar cane, before it becomes Evil Sugar? :-)   I've seen "dried
sugar
>cane juice" sold in health foods stores as a granulated powder - it seems
>relatively "paleo" to me, yet it also seems not so far from white sugar.


Specially because most often, brown  sugar is just white sugar
mixed with molasses (left over of the refinning of sugar) to make it brown.
jean-claude