Are brown sugar and white sugar originally from the same plant?

Answer 1

Yes, sugar cane. The only difference is brown sugar has had molasses added to it to make it brown and give it's distinctive color and flavor.

Answer 2

yes they both come from the same plant - sugar cane. the difference is in the processing of the cane. brown sugar gets its colour from molasses while the white sugar is further refined to remove the molasses.

Answer 3

Sometimes, but not always.

White sugar can come from sugar cane or sugar beets.

Brown sugar is white sugar with molasses. Molasses only comes from sugar cane, as a by-product of white-sugar production. The by-product from beet-sugar refining is MSG.

Brown sugar could be a mixture of molasses from cane, and white sugar from beets.

Answer 4

Possibly. They could be from sugar cane or sugar beets.
Brown sugar is partially refined juice, and retains some of the minerals that are good for you.
White sugar, on the other hand, is highly refined, containing only empty calories, which means there is no nutritional value there.

Answer 5

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).

WHITE SUGAR
In non-scientific use, the term "sugar" means sucrose, also called "table sugar" or saccharose, a white crystalline solid disaccharide. Humans most commonly use sucrose as their sugar of choice for altering the flavor and properties (such as mouthfeel, preservation, and texture) of beverages and food. Commercially-produced table sugar comes either from sugar cane or from sugar beet.

The "simple" sugars, or monosaccharides (such as glucose), store energy which biological cells use and consume. In a list of ingredients, any word that ends with "ose" probably denotes a sugar.

For information on the other sugars, see monosaccharide and disaccharide.

In culinary terms, sugar as a type of food delivers one of the primary taste sensations, that of sweetness.

Answer 6

Yes. The difference is that brown sugar has molasses added.

Answer 7

yes