Is brown sugar better for you than normal sugar?

Question

My mother keeps telling me that I should put brown sugar on my cereal instead of normal sugar because it's healthier, is that true?

Answer 1

Refined, bleached foods are generally less good for you than unrefined stuff (white flour, white rice etc etc).
The bowel needs some substance to work with to remain healthy....like excercising it, if you like. If all the fibre is bleached and refined out of the foods we eat, the bowel becomes lazy, inactive, prone to constipation, clogged up (white flour becomes like wallpaper paste in the bowel and sticks to the sides like a furred up kettle - yuk), and eventaully, possibly prone to bowel cancer.
Always choose the 'whole' options of any food: bread, pasta, rice, flour, sugar etc.
Your Mum is right!

Answer 2

"Back in 17th century Europe, manufacturers developed a laborious process through which sugar could be refined to something approximating whiteness. This whiteness, which at the time came at such a high price, caused white sugar to be considered by many people to be more worthy of consumption. In reality, however, although a cup of brown sugar has slightly more calories than white, brown sugar also contains 187 milligrams of calcium, 56 mg of phosphorous, 4.8 mg of iron, 757 mg of potassium and 97 mg of sodium, compared to only scant traces of those nutrients found in white sugar. All the good parts – the molasses, the vitamins and minerals – have been removed; there is practically nothing left but carbohydrates and calories.
Now that the days of white sugar being considered a status symbol are long gone, the refining is now done for purely commercial reasons; it allows the sugar to last longer in the warehouse and on the supermarket shelf. Of course, to protect the end user – that’s you – merchants can simply put a “Consume Before:” stamp on the package of unrefined sugar. But that also means a risk for the merchant should the unrefined sugar expire before it gets sold. Ultimately, it’s your health that pays the highest price."

Answer 3

Brown sugar is simply less refined than white sugar, however, it might have a miniscule amount of iron in it. A sugar refinery boils the sugar syrup, removing off the molasses, until all that's left is the white crystals. I can't imagine that it's really that much more healthy, though, since whatever substances are still in brown sugar that are absent in white remain in only very small amounts and you probably aren't using all that much sugar for a bowl of cereal. I'd say use what tastes best to you and supplement your diet with other substances rich in the nutrients you're seeking.

Answer 4

Yes, because brown sugar is normal sugar. White sugar is refined sugar.

Answer 5

Your mother is wrong if it is ordinary "brown sugar" (which is just white sugar mixed with molasses), but she may be right if it is "natural brown sugar".

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Answer 6

brown sugar is the same as regular sugar but some of the molasses is left in to make it brown.

Answer 7

Tell your mom if she likes brown sugar,for her to eat it

Answer 8

Yes! You're mom is right!!!

I use brown sugar and I think it's really healthier....
It's safer to use it than any other sugar...trust me!

Answer 9

No that is not true at all. It is equal to normal sugar in every way.

Answer 10

No- brown sugar is just sugar that's been mixed with molasses ...it's no heathier then "regular" sugar.