Is brown sugar healthier than white sugar?
THE CLAIM Brown sugar is healthier than white sugar THE FACTS Brown rice is better for you than white rice and whole wheat bread comes out on top over white bread, but does this pattern extend to sugar as well? It is often said that brown sugar is a healthier option than white sugar. But you can chalk that up to clever marketing or plain and simple illusion. In reality, brown sugar is most often ordinary table sugar that is turned brown by the reintroduction of molasses. Normally, molasses is separated and removed when sugar is created from sugar cane plants. In some cases, brown sugar — particularly when it is referred to as “raw sugar” — is merely sugar that has not been fully refined. But more often than not, manufacturers prefer to reintroduce molasses to fine white sugar — creating a mixture with about 5 percent to 10 percent molasses — because it allows them to better control the color and size of the crystals in the final product. So the two varieties of sugar are similar nu
