Brown Sugar is Not Healthier than White Sugar
Many people nowadays especially people that are on diet or care about what they eat, have the tendency to go for what is healthier, which is obviously the right thing to do if eating healthy is a main concern. However, since it is known that brown rice and brown bread are healthier than white rice and white bread according to Kids Health organization and Whole Grain Council. This question now is there any truth behind the fact that some people believe that this trend can extend to reach brown sugar as well? And what proof do these people have to support their ideas? And what is actually the difference between the brown sugar and white sugar from its origins, history, and production and is that difference significant enough to make the brown sugar a better option than the white sugar? But for sure white sugar has different nutritional values and may contain different ingredients but does this mean that brown sugar is better than white sugar.
Sugar is a general term for carbohydrates that are soluble, sweet, and short-chained. It is mostly used for human consumption. There are many kinds of sugars obtained from various sources. Simple sugars are termed as monosaccharide such as glucose. The table-granulated sugar is a disaccharide-sucrose and according to Oliver Cheesman in his book Environmental Impacts of Sugar Production the Cultivation and Processing of Sugarcane and Sugar Beet, both brown and white sugars are obtained from sugar cane or the beet (Cheesman 51). Brown sugar is an inclusion of molasses and water and brown sugar is lower in calories compared to white sugar. Hence, white sugar tastes sweeter compared to brown sugar. However, Brown sugar has a unique brown color, and i...
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The high cost, however, wasn’t a problem for wealthy plantation owners, who had money to spare. The existence of this surplus capital played a huge role in driving the sugar trade. For example, Document 6a states that for a single plantation, windmills, housing, distilling and boiling facilities, as well as several animals were needed. These things cost over £100,000 total, but the people investing in the sugar trade were already wealthy and thus could afford the initial expenses. Since the landowners were so rich, it was possible for them to appoint overseers and send them to the actual plantation, and stay home in Europe while still seeing profit. Also, since most of the farms were individually owned (Document 7a), whatever money was made from the plantation would go to the person himself, without having to give much to other investors. It’s also worth mentioning that while the other goods might have been costly, the land was quite cheap (Document 6a). Most plantations were located in the Caribbean, where the climate was ideal for sugar production (Document 2). Surplus capital helped to drive the sugar trade because it allowed for wealthy landowners to set up large farms in a perfect environment quite easily, without many risks or adjustments. Since all they needed to do was use some of their money to start a plantation, and gradually expand it as they gained profit, excess capital was a root for
was only eight years old. Raw sugar was then imported to the Imperial Sugar Company refinery in Sugar Land. By the 1940s the population
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Sugar in its many forms is as old as the Earth itself. It is a sweet tasting thing for which humans have a natural desire. However there is more to sugar than its sweet taste, rather cane sugar has been shown historically to have generated a complex process of cultural change altering the lives of all those it has touched, both the people who grew the commodity and those for whom it was grown. Suprisingly, for something so desireable knowledge of sugar cane spread vey slow. First found in Guinea and first farmed in India (sources vary on this), knowledge of it would only arrive in Europe thousands of years later. However, there is more to the history of sugar cane than a simple story of how something was adopted piecemeal into various cultures. Rather the history of sugar, with regards to this question, really only takes off with its introduction to Europe. First exposed to the delights of sugar cane during the crusades, Europeans quickly acquired a taste for this sweet substance. This essay is really a legacy of that introduction, as it is this event which foreshadowed the sugar related explosion of trade in slaves. Indeed Henry Hobhouse in `Seeds of Change' goes so far as to say that "Sugar was the first dependance upon which led Europeans to establish tropical mono cultures to satisfy their own addiction." I wish, then, to show the repurcussions of sugar's introduction into Europe and consequently into the New World, and outline especially that parallel between the suga...
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Despite the federal aid granted to sugar growers, not all sectors of agriculture devoted to growing sugar derivatives flourished. Domestic production of sugar cane increased steadily from 1982 onward, while sugar beet production stagnated (Knutson, 1985). Through time, the largest number of sugar beet farmers were concentrated in a specific West/Midwest region of the U.S. (Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho) while sugar cane farmers were found in the Southeast, specifically Louisiana and Florida.
The Sugar Trade was drove by labor, land & consumer demand. In document 10, it tells how the British traded a little for a lot, this means the British traded finished goods that the African people didn't have, like powder, bullets, iron bars, copper bars, brass pans, british malt spirits etc… for slaves “but in the main, with very little that is not of our own growth or manufacture”.
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The introduction of sugar into the European nations allowed its expansion in huge amounts as many royalty and nobles have come to prefer its sweetness. However, the carving of sweetness allows sugar to play a role in political, economic, and social changes in Britain. Sweetness and Power by Sidney Mintz explores the causes and effect of the use of sugar in Britain and how those effects changes the structure of the intake of sugar. The consumption of sugar within the Britain society demonstrated a sensational expansion of sugar as it shifts from the rich to the poor. With the consumption of sugar, it provided an image and explanation of the purpose of the consumption and what its uses were to change Britain’s society politically, economically,
It has been argued that the sugar revolution has affected the Caribbean drastically as a result of the sugar revolution; economically there was a labour problem which was caused by the change from Tobacco to Sugar. “The manufacturing of Sugar cultivation was much needed for some workers to practice manual labour.” (Galen son, 1989: 112). There were people who tried to get workers like the Spaniards who tried to get the Arawak to w...
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We are all familiar with sugar. It is sweet, delicious, and addictive; yet only a few of us know that it is deadly. When it comes to sugar, it seems like most people are in the mind frame knowing that it could be bad for our health, but only a few are really taking the moderate amounts. In fact, as a whole population, each and everyone of us are still eating about 500 extra calories per day from sugar. Yes, that seems like an exaggerated number judging from the tiny sweet crystals we sprinkle on our coffee, but it is not. Sugar is not only present in the form of sweets and flavourings, it is hidden in all the processed foods we eat. We have heard about the dangers of eating too much fat or salt, but we know very little about the harmful effects of consuming too much sugar. There still isn’t any warnings about sugar on our food labels, nor has there been any broadcasts on the serious damages it could do to our health. It has come to my concern during my research that few