In reference to raw cane sugar the word raw when related to sugar does not refer to the temperature at which the extraction has been carried out as in the definition of other raw foods but in the context of sugar the word raw refers to a sort of lightly refined sugar and has been a word used to describe this type of sugar for many many years in all cases raw sugar is the product of the first stage of the cane sugar refining process and as a result it has some very distinctive characteristi