Friday 22 June 2012

Don't Waste Money on Brown Sugar

It's a common misconception that brown sugar and honey are healthier alternatives to white sugar. They're not. Dark sugar is still sugar regardless of its colour. “Raw” and "brown" imply a more natural sugar and are always an excellent selling point on food labels and a favorite marketing gimmick for manufacturers.

It's known that unheated, raw honey is better than processed commercial honey because of the presence of live enzymes. Similarly, people know that brown rice is less processed and healthier than white rice, and if sugar comes in a "raw" or “brown" form just like rice, they tend to rationalise that it is probably better. However, brown rice is different. It has some bran attached, so it’s higher in fibre and has significantly more minerals than white rice. But unfortunately, sugar that appears brown doesn’t have the same nice story. 
  • Brown sugar is not more nutritious than white. Brown sugar is usually white sugar with molasses added to the sugar crystals.
  • Honey is not better for you than white sugar. All sugar – whether it is honey, white sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup or molasses – provide energy (calories) but no significant amounts of other nutrients. 
  • Different sugars are used to provide different tastes and textures to food.
Here’s a chart of how these sweeteners compare with one another and with regular table sugar:
Sweetener Serving size Calories Carbs Other nutrients of note
White (table) sugar 2 tsp 33 8 g None*
Blackstrap molasses 2 tsp 32 8 g Manganese (18% DV), copper (14% DV), iron (13% DV), calcium (12% DV), potassium (10% DV), magnesium (7%DV), vitamin B6 (5% DV), selenium (4% DV)
Rapadura 2 tsp 30 8 g None*
Sucanat 2 tsp 30 8 g None*
Turbinado sugar 2 tsp 30 8 g None*
Evaporated cane juice 2 tsp 30 8 g Riboflavin (3% DV), potassium (1% DV), manganese (1% DV), copper (1% DV), iron (1% DV)
Agave nectar syrup 2 tsp 40 8 g None*
Brown rice syrup 2 tsp 40 10 g None*
Honey 2 tsp 43 11 g None*
Maple syrup 2 tsp 45 9 g Manganese (22% DV), zinc (4% DV)

*Less than 0.5% DV of any vitamins or minerals
 
The bottom line is that sugar is sugar. Too much sugar—whether it’s marketed as “natural” or not—can harm your health. Even sweeteners touted as natural or nutritious, like the ones discussed here, don’t typically add a significant source of vitamins or minerals to your diet. But in moderation, there’s nothing wrong with the sweetness that a little sugar adds to life. So if you’re going to eat it, eat the good stuff...just not too much of it.

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