Is Brown Sugar Better Than White Sugar?

Admin January 6, 2021Last Updated: January 6, 2021

18 2 minutes read

Brown Sugar vs White Sugar

Health experts around the world are regularly warning about sugar and salt. According to experts, the use of sugar and salt in food should be gradually reduced. But these two items are still essential to bring out the taste of food. So question rise, Is Brown Sugar Better Than White Sugar?

If you follow the rules of hygiene, you have to develop the habit of taking sugar from food items other than sugar. Fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables provide much needed sugar for the body. Apart from this, granulated sugar is not very much needed. The amount of sugar in the daily diet is converted into glucose in our body. Later it produces energy in the body. If you take more sugar than you need, it causes harm to the body.

If you have to eat, then it is better to take coarse-grained brown sugar instead of fine, fine-grained sugar. This is healthy.

The habit of buying good sugar without buying adulterated and harmful chemical mixed sugar from the market can be easily developed. Bright white sugar attracts buyers. This neatly granulated sugar attracts more buyers as it is marketed in attractive packets. On the other hand, sugarcane made in the country is healthy but it looks reddish and has high moisture content. Many times buyers are not interested in buying this sugar. But sugar produced in domestic sugar mills is relatively safe and useful as baby food.

Vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other beneficial nutrients are removed during the manufacture of sugar in the industrial refining method. This sugar is very harmful for human body. Sugarcane is not always used to make imported sugar. Sugar is also made with sugarcane as an alternative ingredient. Excess chemicals are added to this sugar to bring out the sweetness. And in the process of refining, more harmful substances are added to the sugar. Harmful chemicals used for cleaning or whitening are sulfur, bone meal.

Tests by the Bangladesh Institute of Food Science and Technology have shown that imported refined and domestically produced sugar is harmful to health. The level of calcium in domestic sugar produced from sugarcane is 160.32, which is 1.56 to 2.75 percent in refined sugar. Potassium is 142.9 percent in domestic sugar and 0.32 to 0.35 percent in refined sugar. Phosphorus is 2.5 to 10.69 percent in domestic sugar and 2.35 percent in refined sugar. Iron is zero point 42 to 6 percent in domestic sugar and zero point 48 percent in refined sugar. Magnesium is 0.15 to 3.6 percent in domestic sugar and 0.7 to 1.21 percent in refined sugar. Sodium is 0.6 percent in domestic sugar and 0.2 percent in refined sugar.

For these reasons, experts now recommend eating brown / reddish sugar produced in the country. Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation has also started selling this sugar in packaged form. Buyers are re-establishing the habit of red sugar as in the old days. It is less harmful.
But not without repeating a word at the end. Red sugar is less harmful than refined white sugar, but it is best to take very little sugar and gradually eliminate it from the diet.