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The Sugar Association celebrates real sugar’s deep roots: from farms to family favorites

October 15, 2025

WASHINGTON D.C. | OCTOBER 15, 2025 – The Sugar Association is marking National Real Sugar Day today by celebrating the gold standard of sweetness – real sugar! This year’s celebration highlights real sugar’s unique story and its deep roots, from farms to family favorites. Real sugar’s roots go back thousands of years, as one of […]

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Sugar Association responds to FDA’s proposed rule on front-of-package nutrition labeling

January 14, 2025

January 14, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) – The following reaction statement is attributable to Sugar Association President and CEO Courtney Gaine, PhD, RD: “The Sugar Association supports transparency, but this draft label offers only the illusion of transparency – it entirely leaves out total calories and the use of industrial additives like artificial sweeteners. In fact, […]

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Sugar Association responds to release of FDA’s final rule on the definition of ‘healthy’

December 19, 2024

December 19, 2024 (Washington, D.C.) – The following reaction statement is attributable to Sugar Association President and CEO Courtney Gaine, PhD, RD: “The Sugar Association supports the Dietary Guidelines recommendation to limit added sugars to 10% of total calories, but the new “healthy” definition goes well beyond that recommendation and arbitrarily excludes many foods containing […]

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Parents on RFK Jr.’s advice on sweets: ‘Completely unrealistic’

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 […]

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Soller with Sugar Association elected HBA president

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.”

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American Sugarbeet Growers Association annual meeting scheduled for Jan 26-28

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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