What's the difference between Brown Sugar and normal Sugar?

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Morning all,

What is the difference between Brown Sugar and normal white Sugar?

...is brown sugar actually a healthier option?

Thanks
 
Granulated white sugar is essentially pure sucrose, whether derived from tropical sugar cane, or temperate sugar beets. White sugars vary mostly in the size of their crystals. The degree of processing by the manufacturer may also account for different degrees of whiteness.

Brown sugars are of two basic types: sticky and free-flowing. Both are produced by adding a suitable type of syrup (these days it's usually molasses) to purified or refined sugar. The color and texture of the final product are determined by the ratio of sugar to syrup in the mix, as well the the original colors of the constituent ingredients.
 
Red and White said:
Granulated white sugar is essentially pure sucrose, whether derived from tropical sugar cane, or temperate sugar beets. White sugars vary mostly in the size of their crystals. The degree of processing by the manufacturer may also account for different degrees of whiteness.

Brown sugars are of two basic types: sticky and free-flowing. Both are produced by adding a suitable type of syrup (these days it's usually molasses) to purified or refined sugar. The color and texture of the final product are determined by the ratio of sugar to syrup in the mix, as well the the original colors of the constituent ingredients.
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lol someone used yahoo answers
 
mangobreeder said:
lol someone used yahoo answers
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Why the lol?

It's what most people do who don't have first hand experience of something; look it up on the intarweb....... a lot better that some of the half baked answers that someone half remembers being told that get posted.
 
I *thought* that brown sugar was more *raw* from the cane as opposed to having being washed or something...
 
some manufactures do bleach their sugar

(off the top of my head think i read it some ware or watched it on how do they do that on discovery channel so may be a false statement)
 
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