Now there are more and more kinds of brown sugar on the market, including donkey-hide gelatin brown sugar, red jujube brown sugar, ginger juice brown sugar, motherwort brown sugar, medlar brown sugar and so on. Can they really achieve the publicity effect?
These kinds of brown sugar are based on traditional brown sugar, and a certain amount of animal and plant accessories with health care function are added. Brown sugar is generally a crude 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, the color gradually turns red, darkens 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, it is very small compared with other natural foods.
The efficacy of health care ingredients in fancy 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%.
So why do some people think that drinking brown sugar can relieve dysmenorrhea? Experts say that eating 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 lack of nutrition, and brown sugar can provide some energy; Ginger, pepper and other foods can promote blood circulation through spicy feeling and stimulate people to feel warm.
But be careful, they will also make the body's heat dissipate faster. 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 in 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, which is obviously impossible.
The Nutrition Society of China suggests that the sugar intake should not exceed 50g per day, and it is better to control it below 25g. A cup of brown sugar water contains about 20 grams of sugar, which will not exceed the standard, but it should be considered that other foods in life also contain added sugar, such as sweet drinks, fruity yogurt, dried cakes and egg cakes. And reduce their intake after drinking brown sugar water.