Nutritionists are constantly talking about the harm of refined sugar. At the same time, advocates of healthy nutrition actively promote the benefits of brown sugar. But after all, both kinds of loose sweets are a storehouse of pure carbohydrates, and at first glance they differ only in color. So is it worth to give up the usual and go all the way to brown sugar, the benefit or harm can be from this product? For certain, few people know about the properties of dark granulated sugar, although it is often found in stores today.
What is the difference between brown sugar and ordinary sugar?
Differences between the usual snow-white sugar and his brown fellow in addition to color is still abundant:
- Raw material and method of production: ordinary sugar is produced from sugar beet by the method of evaporation and crystallization, brown sugar from sugar cane by boiling method.
- Composition: in white there is no molasses, in brown it can constitute a rather significant part of the main product volume.
- Country of origin: ordinary sugar enters stores most often from local processing enterprises, brown is imported from Brazil, Guatemala, from Cuba, etc.
- Taste: in ordinary sugar it is neutral richly sweet, in brown it can be with a fruity taste, caramel and even creamy.
One of the main differences is the price. Normal white sugar costs three to four times less than brown sugar. Therefore, before you choose a more expensive exotic analogue in the store, you should know in more detail which sugar is more useful than white or brown. Maybe, in the useful properties of their difference is not so great, and overpay only for the color is not it?
How useful is brown sugar?
Brown sugar is subjected to less processing, so it stores more useful substances that are present in the feedstock. The benefit of brown sugar lies in the fact that it contains many trace elements: potassium, iron , Inca, sodium, phosphorus, which in ordinary sugar is almost nonexistent. Reed sweetness can very well replace a very useful honey if a person has an allergy to it. But in addition to good, and the brown sugar has damage too. This is a high-calorie product, and it is absorbed very quickly. Therefore, to provoke obesity can with the same degree of probability as the white analog. Although the calories in a hundred grams here still contain a little less - 377 kcal, and in ordinary sugar - 347 kcal.