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Which is better, brown sugar or old brown sugar?
Old brown sugar is better.

Ordinary brown sugar uses chemical additives to extract sugar from sugarcane juice, and other nutrients are lost together, which has no other function except sweetness.

Old brown sugar uses a physical method, slowly cooking sugarcane soup with firewood and then letting it crystallize naturally. Ginger is directly added in the boiling process of brown sugar, so that the brown sugar completely retains the nutrition of sugarcane, which not only tastes mellow, but also has outstanding medicinal value and health care function.

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Brown sugar water is the most common and practical brown sugar health drink in the early days, which has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, strengthening the spleen and stomach and warming the stomach.

Old brown sugar contains riboflavin, carotene, nicotinic acid, manganese, zinc, chromium and other indispensable trace elements for human growth and development. In addition, the calcium content of old brown sugar is 10 times that of white sugar, and the iron content is 3.6 times that of white sugar.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-brown sugar

Baidu Encyclopedia-Ginger Brown Sugar