[aruanan]

Cotton candy is junky--but some people think brown sugar is not, but they're both sucrose.

White sugar is just brown sugar with the impurities removed.

[Nepeta]

White sugar is just brown sugar with the impurities removed.

Exactly so. White crystalline sugar goes through something like 100 recrystallizations to make it white. But if you make a solution with it, that solution is faintly yellow.