What are the components of brown sugar?

Question

what are the minerals and vitamins in a brown sugar?
Is it good for the skin?
does it help in reducing sunburns?

Answer 1

it's white sugar sprayed with molasses. I suppose it's as good for your skin as a mix of white sugar and molasses would be...

Answer 2

Good question, Brown sugar is just sugar and molasses mixed together so I suppose you could just look at the nutrition facts for both and find out.

Answer 3

I haven't heard that it is good for the skin before. You might want the natural brown sugar, also called raw sugar. See the wikipedia excerpts below.

Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. It is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals with some residual molasses content or produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar.

Brown sugar contains from 3.5% molasses (light brown sugar) to 6.5% molasses (dark brown sugar). The product is naturally moist from the hygroscopic nature of the molasses and is often labelled as "Soft". The product may undergo processing to give a product that flows better for industrial handling. The addition of dyes and or other chemicals may be permitted in some areas or for industrial products.

Particle size is variable but generally less than granulated white sugar, products for industrial use e.g. as an ingredient for industrial production of cakes may be based on caster sugar (crystals of approximately 0.35 mm).

Brown sugar has a slightly lower caloric value by weight than white sugar due to the presence of water. One hundred grams of brown sugar contains 373 calories, as opposed to 396 calories in white sugar. [1] However, brown sugar packs more densely than white sugar due to the smaller crystal size and may have more calories when measured by volume.

Natural brown sugar also known as raw sugar is a brown sugar from the incomplete processing of cane. Natural brown sugar is free of additional dyes and chemicals. It has more minerals than other brown sugar (up to ten times as many). Some natural brown sugars have particular names and characteristics such as Demerara or Muscovado.

Answer 4

sugar and molasses

Answer 5

http://www.crystalsugar.com/products/products5.sfacts.asp