Brown sugar refers to the finished sugar of sugar cane and honey, which is made by squeezing and concentrating sugar cane. Brown sugar is divided into flake sugar, brown sugar powder and bowl sugar according to different crystal particles.
Because it is not highly refined, it contains almost all the ingredients in sugarcane juice. Besides the function of sugar, it also contains vitamins and trace elements, such as iron, zinc, manganese and chromium. The nutrient content is much higher than that of sugar.
Efficacy:
Brown sugar is not only used as a sweetener in China, but also considered as a health product since ancient times.
For example, as early as the first century AD, it was recorded in Dong Fangshuo's Theory of strangeness and Tao Hongjing's Records of Famous Doctors that brown sugar can moisten lung qi, help five internal organs, promote fluid production and detoxify, help temper and slow liver qi.
Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica (1596) also recorded that "brown sugar can strengthen the spleen and soothe the liver, enrich blood and promote blood circulation, dredge blood stasis and expel toxin", but its health care principle was unknown before.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Brown Sugar