That means danger for those consuming such products as «organic» infant milk formula, cereal bars or high energy foods that
contain the organic brown rice syrup (OBRS) as an ingredient, according to a Dartmouth College research team led by Brian Jackson.
Sugar includes glucose, fructose (as in fruit sugar), lactose (as in milk), sucrose (as in table sugar), maltose or malts (as in
rice malt and honey), jam or jelly (
contains concentrated juice, which is high in fruit sugar), maple
syrup, corn
syrup, palm sugar (traditionally used in macrobiotic cooking), and the very deceiving
organic brown sugar, which is not all that different from white sugar.
Consumers can look for «
brown rice sugar» or «
brown rice syrup» on labels, choosing products that do not
contain these sweeteners — at least until it appears the process has improved to ensure that
organic means free of hazardous contaminants, as people should be able to expect.