cane sugar

So I had a Iced Cafe Mocha from the local Starbucks today. It is a recently opened one around here and I wanted to see if it was any better than the other one in town (which has absolutely no comfortable seating). The good news is that there is some comfy seating at this new one, although not very much unfortunately. The bad news is that I think the cafe mocha had cane sugar in it. Bummer! It seems like this is fairly common for coffee shops unfortunately. One of the other ones in town definitely uses cane sugar in their drinks. For those of you who don’t know, I have food allergies and unfortunately cane sugar is one of them. Most people don’t know that there is more than one type of sugar and that cane isn’t even the most common necessarily. A lot of foods are made with beet sugar (another very common type of sugar), but it is impossible to tell what kind of sugar a food has in it without eating it and discovering through a reaction. The nice thing is that since a lot of packaged or restaurant foods have specific suppliers, you can usually depend on the company sticking with the same type of sugar. And as far as using sugar for baking, Crystal Sugar is always beet sugar (which is good, since buying sugar labeled as beet sugar is ridiculously expensive).

All that to say, I probably won’t be frequenting this starbucks very often unless I feel like being sick :( Oh well, I can always get my sugar/coffee fix from Ferrero Pocket Coffees (which luckily do not seem to bother me).