Reed sugar is very popular today, despite the relatively high cost compared to beet. Harm and health benefits of brown cane sugar were carefully studied by doctors and nutritionists.
Benefit and harm of unrefined cane sugar
Fashion for cane sugar led to the emergence of widespread misconception that it is more useful for losing weight and maintaining the harmony of the figure. This myth is dispelled by nutritionists, giving such data: the calorie content of brown sugar is less than the energy value of white beet, by about 10 kcal and is 377 kcal per 100 g.
The use of unrefined cane sugar is not in low caloric content, but in a more valuable composition. Unrefined foods always contain more vitamins, micro- and macro elements than refined refined ones. Reed sugar, in particular, is rich in B vitamins, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, sodium and iron. In white sugar, these substances are ten times less. In addition, in cane sugar more glucose and less sucrose than in white.
Another advantage of brown sugar is that it, unlike white, does not cause the accumulation of mucus in the body. Regular use of a small amount of cane sugar helps improve the performance of the spleen and liver.
Toxic sugar is harmful to people with excess weight. no useful substances can not compensate for excess caloric content. But even more dangerous is that any sugar can adversely affect the metabolic processes and contribute to the disruption of fat and carbohydrate metabolism. For children, excessive consumption of sugar is fraught with allergies.
In order not to harm the figure and the body as a whole, doctors recommend calculating the amount of sugar consumed so that its caloric value is less than 10% of the total daily calorie content of the diet.
How to determine the quality of cane sugar?
Quality cane sugar has a brown color of different saturation (depending on the variety) - from golden to almost black. Color gives him molasses . But if you put real cane sugar in water, it will dissolve without staining the liquid. If the water changes color - this is most likely a colored refined sugar.
Visually, real cane sugar can not be perfectly even, with the same grains of sand. A quality product can be in the form of cubes of irregular shape or inhomogeneous crystals of different sizes.