A one word answer would be "YES". Depending on the kind of sugars meant, each kind of sugar has its own chemical formula. Table sugar is sucrose. It is made from two simpler sugars called glucose and...
Holly Sugar, which acquired Spreckles, is beet sugar. So is Imperial Sugar. According to the Spreckles web site, "Holly Sugar acquired Spreckels Sugar Company in 1996. In 2005, when Southern...
Brown sugar is not as sweet as white sugar.
It also affects colour hence brown sugar often being used in flapjacks and with stewed fruit (speciafically apples) to make the fruit look more caramelised