“Many people shy away from using their oven’s self-cleaning feature since it gets so incredibly hot, and reports of those cycles damaging plenty of ovens litter the internet. By mixing 8 fluid ounces of apple cider vinegar with 1 fluid ounce of sugar, you can create a safe and effective oven cleaner. Wipe it on the entire surface of your oven or add it to a spray bottle and spritz it on. After sitting for an hour or so, you should be able to wipe away the residue easily with a damp cloth.
Adding sugar to a liquid like apple cider vinegar can boost its grease-removing properties, according to Dr. Francesca Kerton, a professor of Green Chemistry at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. “Sugar is a great scrub because it is a crystalline material or a solid that likes to form small cube-like objects,” says Kerton (via The Sugar Association).”
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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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