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What is brown sugar?
Brown sugar usually refers to the finished sugar of sugarcane and honey.

Generally speaking, it refers to sugarcane with honey formed after juice extraction, simple treatment and concentration. Brown sugar is divided into brown sugar, brown sugar powder and bowl sugar. According to the different crystal particles, almost all the components in sugarcane juice are retained because they are not highly refined. Besides the function of sugar, it also contains vitamins and trace elements, such as iron, zinc, manganese and chromium. And the nutrients are much higher than sugar.

Brown sugar and brown sugar

In the mid-20th century, due to the slow melting and color of traditional brown sugar, it could not meet the large-scale production needs of various food processing plants, and the mechanism sugar factories for decolorizing sugar with sulfurous acid (or carbonic acid) appeared like mushrooms after rain.

Brown sugar has the characteristics of convenience, instant eating and low price. Once it appeared, it quickly occupied the market, while the traditional brown sugar gradually faded out of people's sight. In fact, brown sugar is not brown sugar, but industrialized refined sugar. In addition to different processes, there are also great differences in nutritional components and health care effects.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Brown Sugar