Chinese medicine believes that red enters the blood, so brown sugar has always been a "blood-enriching artifact" in the eyes of Chinese people. There are more and more kinds of brown sugar on the market now.

You can drink a cup of brown sugar water occasionally, but don't be too superstitious about its health care function. Drink it every day. Generally speaking, the iron content of brown sugar is 2 mg/100 g, and healthy adult women need 20 mg of iron per person per day. If you want to rely on brown sugar, you need to eat 1000 grams, which is 2 kg. This is obviously impossible. Even if you eat half of it, it will make you seriously fat.

China Nutrition Society suggests that the daily intake of added sugar should not exceed 50g, and it is better to control it below 25g. Generally, the sugar content of a cup of brown sugar water is about 20 grams, which will not exceed the standard. However, considering that other foods in life also contain added sugar, such as sweet drinks, fruity yogurt, biscuits, cakes and other desserts, drinking brown sugar water should reduce its intake.

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A variety of brown sugar is based on traditional brown sugar, and a certain amount of animal and plant accessories with health care function are added. Fan Zhihong, an associate professor at the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, found that brown sugar is generally a coarse sugar product made from sugarcane juice after filtration and high-temperature heating and concentration.

In the process of boiling sugar juice for a long time, due to Maillard reaction, the color of sugar juice gradually turns red and dark and emits fragrance. But most of these brown sugar is sugar, even if it contains some amino acids and trace elements that white sugar does not have, compared with other natural foods, it is very small.

The efficacy of health care ingredients in model brown sugar has also been exaggerated. Take ginger as an example. Although the effect of relieving dysmenorrhea has been proved by literature, the premise is that the dosage must be large enough and used one week before menstruation. However, the addition of ginger in ginger juice brown sugar is almost below 3.5%. If you want to supplement iron, animal food is better, which is not only high in iron content, but also easier to absorb.

Fan Zhihong said that too much easily absorbed sugar will reduce the efficiency of blood circulation, so the analgesic effect may be mainly based on the "psychological comfort effect" of sweetness; In addition, girls with severe dysmenorrhea have poor appetite and are prone to malnutrition, and brown sugar can provide some energy; Ginger, pepper and other foods can promote blood circulation and stimulate people to feel warm through spicy feeling.

But you should know that they will also make the body's heat dissipate faster.

References:

People's Daily Online-Health Truth of Flower Brown Sugar: Health care efficacy is exaggerated, and excessive consumption will make you fat.