You’d be wrong to assume it. Amish make some of the best candies around, made the old way but full of sugar. I doubt they are growing their own sugar cane so it’s likely it comes from sugar beets or corn.
My fried growing up was from Pennsylvania and would bring back massive amounts of candy from Amish country. Whenever I drive to Florida I see many road side stores touting “Amish made candy”.
The answer is yes they eat the candy they make as well.
You've also got maple syrup (and maple sugar) and honey, which produce sugar with very little processing. Honey you just need to extract from the comb, maybe filter out the bug parts if you're picky, syrup you just literally boil the sap (and filter out the bug parts).
My fried growing up was from Pennsylvania and would bring back massive amounts of candy from Amish country. Whenever I drive to Florida I see many road side stores touting “Amish made candy”.
The answer is yes they eat the candy they make as well.