However, many people think that white sugar is unhealthy, but brown sugar is more nutritious than white sugar and has many "health functions", such as "invigorating qi and enriching blood, invigorating spleen and warming stomach, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis". Many women also store brown sugar in order to live more comfortably in those days.

Does brown sugar really have such a good health care function?

How are brown sugar and white sugar made?

The raw materials of brown sugar and white sugar are sugarcane. The biggest difference in the processing is that white sugar has been refined and purified, while brown sugar has not.

1. How to make sugar?

There are two kinds of common white sugar: white sugar and soft sugar, which are extracted from sugarcane and then refined, purified and decolored.

In the refining process, some impurities, burnt taste and caramel color in sugarcane will be removed, so it looks white.

2. How to make brown sugar?

Brown sugar, like sugar, is extracted from sugarcane. The biggest difference between brown sugar and white sugar is that the fineness is lower than that of white sugar.

Brown sugar is the sugar obtained by squeezing sugarcane and directly drying it without refining or even refining, so it is also called crude sucrose.

Because it has not been refined, brown sugar retains more sugarcane juice. After high-temperature boiling, sugar will have two reactions, which will produce burnt taste and caramel color, making brown sugar reddish brown and smell more fragrant.

What is the difference between the nutrition of brown sugar and white sugar?

Brown sugar has always been admired by people. Many people think that brown sugar is more nutritious than white sugar, and it also has health care effects such as "enriching blood".

Actually?

Not quite right.

First of all, brown sugar and white sugar have the same opportunities for major nutrients.

The main component of white sugar is sucrose, the sugar content of white sugar is 99.9%, and the sugar content of soft sugar is 98.9%.

The main component of brown sugar is sucrose, but it also contains a small amount of fructose and glucose, with a total sugar content of 96.6%.

It can be seen that whether it is white sugar or brown sugar, the main ingredient is sucrose.

Secondly, the trace elements in brown sugar are slightly higher, but there is little difference.

Because the refining degree of brown sugar is lower than that of white sugar, it retains more components in sugarcane, so brown sugar contains more trace elements such as calcium, potassium and iron than white sugar.

But even so, there is nothing magical.

In fact, there are very few minerals in brown sugar, which can be easily taken from other foods without eating sugar at all.

If you have to choose a good one, it's like choosing who runs fast from the tortoise and the snail. There is not much difference.

Brown sugar can't "replenish blood"

In the health legend of brown sugar, drinking brown sugar water to "replenish blood" is the most popular. In many places, there is also the habit of drinking brown sugar water in confinement. Many women also choose to drink brown sugar water during menstruation, all in order to "replenish blood".

However, I'm afraid it will disappoint everyone. Brown sugar has no practical effect on "enriching blood"

There is only one reason: anemia supplements iron! No sugar tonic!

The most common anemia is iron deficiency anemia, and iron supplementation is usually recommended.

Brown sugar does contain a small amount of iron, but the iron in brown sugar is non-heme iron, and the absorption rate is very low. Moreover, the iron content of brown sugar per100g is only 2.2 mg, so brown sugar is not the best choice in terms of iron content and absorption rate.

If you need iron supplementation, you should eat animal food properly. For example, every100g of lean pork contains 3 mg of iron, and the absorption rate is much higher.

Moreover, the sugar in brown sugar can not be ignored. If you want to supplement blood by eating brown sugar, it is estimated that anemia has not improved, and you will eat yourself into a fat man.

Brown sugar "invigorating spleen and warming stomach" is pure nonsense.

Most of the health care effects of brown sugar, such as invigorating spleen and warming stomach, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, are just legends.

There must be a possibility that sucrose itself produces "heat". With "heat", the stomach can be "warmed", and not only the stomach, but also the intestines may be warmed up! This so-called "warm stomach" is the same as eating a big mouthful of bread.

Therefore, merchants claim that brown sugar has the function of "enriching blood and invigorating qi", most of which are commercial gimmicks, some of which are expensive, such as the so-called ancient formula making, or imported brown sugar (brown sugar is brown sugar).

The readers of Doctor Clove are all smart consumers. Brown sugar can be eaten, but there is no need to spend too much money.