Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

Semicolons separate items in a list when an item already contains commas. In B, “apple, cinnamon, and maple” contains commas, so semicolons clearly separate it from the other flavors. A incorrectly uses commas to separate city-and-state pairs, and C uses semicolons for a simple list that should use commas.

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