June/July 2019
What is sugar, and where does it come from? Those sound like some simple questions to us, but not so for many consumers. Understanding Consumer Perceptions While sugar is still the most popularly used sweetener (77 percent reported using table sugar in the past 30 days, with honey No. 2 at 61 percent), we’ve learned that consumers still don’t know a whole lot about their favorite sweetener. Shockingly, our survey results showed only 29 percent of consumers agree that table sugar is a naturally occurring sugar (honey was No. 1 at 79 percent).
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January 10, 2026
The health secretary’s new dietary guidelines tell parents to cut the added sugar until their kids turn 11. “Misleading rhetoric “declaring war” on and creating unsubstantiated fear about a real ingredient like real sugar will not improve children’s health,” said Courtney Gaine, the association’s president and CEO, in a statement. “Real sugar — which comes […]
December 4, 2025
"Aimee Soller with the Sugar Association was elected president of the Home Baking Association at the advocacy group’s annual meeting and milling industry veterans Robert Harper and Mike Leddige were elected vice presidents for 2026.”
December 2, 2025
“The American Sugarbeet Growers Association will hold its annual meeting Jan. 26-28 in Indian Wells, California. The agenda is full of topics important to the sugar industry and agriculture at large. Among the planned speakers are the following: Dr. Courtney Gaine, Ph.D., president and CEO of The Sugar Association, on “Dynamics in the U.S. Sugar […]
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