The Misconception That Brown Sugar Is More Useful

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

The next time you go for coffee with friends and one of them asks for brown sugar for his drink because he is afraid for his figure, you can safely laugh.

Ignorance and delusion can put a person in ridiculous situations, such as one. Because the claim that brown sugar is more useful, dietary and harmless than white is a pure delusion that grows under the beautiful camouflage of fashion.

To make sure of this, it is enough to look for data and compare the facts yourself. Brown sugar is an intermediate in the production of white cane sugar.

The coloring is obtained by applying a thin layer of sugar syrup, and the taste resembles malt or caramel. The claim that brown sugar is healthier than white sugar is illogical.

100 grams of white sugar contains 398 kcal, and brown - 390 kcal, which is more than a negligible difference. Carbohydrates in white sugar are 98 g, and in brown - at least 97.5 g. Neither brown nor white sugar has fat and protein.

The only advantage of brown is that it may contain a little more minerals and vitamins due to the process of its production, but they are so few that it is not worth talking about them.

Where then does the huge difference in the prices of the two products come from? Between 500 g of white and 500 g of brown sugar there is about a difference in price, with the larger amount being for brown sugar.

The public suggestion that the more expensive product has been proven to be better, healthier and more useful, finds excellent ground in sugar production. But brown sugar remains more useful only for the pockets of its producers.

Its price in our country is higher only because of the transport costs on its way from the sugar cane plantations in Brazil to the shelves of the native shops. Its manufacturers insist that the high price is due to its expensive processing, not to the fact that it has become a fashion trend.

Since ancient times, people have consumed brown sugar. The darker the sugar, the more organic impurities from the juice of the plant in it. The whiter it is, the more purified it is.

Brown sugar was considered as poorly cleaned by the so-called. black molasses (thick, sweet substance - a product of incomplete saccharification of starch), which was used for the production of rum.

After all, there is nothing nutritious in both types of sugar, so the World Health Organization puts them on a list of foods that should be avoided. There is natural brown sugar, which is obtained during the first crystallization of sugar syrup and it does not contain dyes and additives.

Natural brown unrefined sugar is made only from cane, because that of beets does not taste good if it is crystallized only once. Only in such brown sugar can there be useful substances.

This is the brown sugar that is made in China. It is called red sugar "huntan" and is produced only in a natural way - the machines are eventually used to press the sugar cane to extract the juice, which is then boiled.

It does not contain any harmful chemicals such as various acids, preservatives, bleaches and modifiers. It has a high caloric value, but it retains all the natural minerals and vitamins from sugar cane juice.