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Farmers bitter at Tate & Lyle sugars Made in Britain packaging
The National Farmers’ Union has called for a fresh review of grocery products marketed with the flag
The sugar is grown in plantations around the world, from Belize to Brazil
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Farmers have accused the food giant Tate & Lyle Sugars of misleading shoppers by putting a Made in Britain logo on its sugar grown in plantations around the world from Belize to Brazil.
The American-owned company promotes its bags of white granulated pure cane sugar with a Union flag on its packaging, which states: “Made in the UK since 1878”.
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The Domino Sugars sign is 70 feet tall and 120 feet wide. It sits atop American Sugar Refining s 11-story packaging building in Locust Point. Credit: WBAL s Jim Russ
The D in the Domino Sugars sign is 34 feet tall. The dot above the i is 5 feet tall. To get a feel for the size of the letters, look closely and you ll see several workers in the upper right corner. Credit: WBAL s Jim Russ
Repairs to the Domino Sugars sign are expected to cost $2 million and will take four months. Credit: WBAL s Jim Russ
The Domino Sugars sign is lit at night by 4,400 feet of neon tubing which will be replaced with LED tubing as part of the renovations.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ American Sugar Refining, Inc., a member of ASR Group, made a strategic investment in Bonumose, Inc. to produce and commercialize lower-cost, plant-based alternative sweeteners tagatose and allulose as part of ASR Group s strategy to provide a variety of products to meet the wide range of consumer needs.
The Series B investment round in Bonumose, a start-up company with innovations in plant-based food ingredients, was co-led by American Sugar Refining and The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY).
Bonumose developed and patented a production process for high-purity rare sugars, including tagatose and allulose, from low-cost, abundant, plant-based starches. These products have fewer calories than traditional sugars and a negligible glycemic index impact.