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Hi Everyone,
I received the following response from C&H sugars (I was mainly inquiring
about their brown sugar).  Hope this can be useful to someone.
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Thank you for taking the time to contact C&H Sugar regarding food allergies.
Let me first say that none of our sugars contain gluten.

 Our Powdered Sugar contains 3% corn starch as an anti-caking agent, and this
product may contain a very minuscule amount (less than 0.01%) of corn gluten,
which is not harmful to gluten-sensitive enteropathy patients.  Starch from
sources other than corn, such as wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt, or triticale,
is never used.  Except for corn starch, no ingredients other than cane sugar
are used in any of our consumer products.  They contain no additives or
preservatives.

 Sugar cane and corn are very closely botanically related, so it is
conceivable that someone who is allergic to corn could be also be allergic to cane.
However, most allergic reactions are to protein, and as the protein content is
cane is exceedingly small, an allergic reaction to cane would be very rare.
Although many producers of brown sugars use added caramel color, which may
contain gluten, no caramel color is ever used in C&H Sugar Brown Sugars.

 We sincerely hope the above is useful.  If you have any additional questions
or concerns, please contact me at (800) 234-5708.

 Sincerely,

 Connie C. Hunter, C&H Sugar Co.

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