Light granites do tend to be more porous than dark granites, but as long as you choose resined slabs, you won't have any issues with staining. The resining process makes the stone nonporous. Our Andromeda White slabs are resined, and we have zero staining. Even after our holiday cocktail party when we didn't cleanup until the next morning, all of the cranberry, pomegranite and marachino cherry juice that dried on the counter over the last 18 hours wiped right off without a trace.

I would get a sample of whatever you are considering and test it yourself. For a while I strongly considered white c-tops of some type, and tested several types of white granite and marble, using ketchup, wine, and lemon juice. Surprisingly, some of the white "granites" (and if you read widely on this site you'll learn that a lot of them are not granites but other types of stone) stained worse than the marble sample (though the marble did etch). Good luck!

I'm resurrecting this post as I'm wondering if white granite still stains if it's sealed? We are considering a whitish-creamish granite called Colonial Dream. I did a stain test on a sample (unsealed) with lemon, tea, balsamic, ketchup, oil, hot sauce, soy sauce and old red wine. I found that after leaving them overnight, most of them wiped off without a trace - except the oil and red wine. The oil left a darkened spot, which mostly blends in with the pattern and would not be noticeable if you didn't know it was there. The red wine on the other hand left a very noticeable red stain.

Would this still have stained if the granite was sealed??

Probably not. I'd pick up some Miracle 511 Impregnator sealer from Home Depot, seal your sample and try again. I'd be surprized if you had anymore problems with staining.

When you read the directions on the sealer, you'll see how easy it is to seal the granite. You pretty much just wipe it on and then wipe it off.