Barbara -- Thanks for the tutorial. I use molasses in a few recipes like
bran muffins and home baked beans. The problem with the latter is that the
beans cause bloating which is one of the symptoms I get from from other
problematic foods. I have wondered if there is anything added to brown
sugar. I've never really checked the label because I thought it was pure
(whatever that means these days!).

Don

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>You can check your brown sugar reaction by seeing if molasses bothers you.
>It contains the contaminants that have to be cleaned out of the brown sugar
>to turn it into table sugar.  If molasses doesn't bother you then real
>brown sugar--the stuff that sets up like a lump of concrete--should not.