[what is raw sugar]Refined sugar (refined sugar) and jaggery are two sweeteners commonly used around the world. Although both jaggery and refined sugar are made from sugar cane juice, they are quite different. Read this article Saiba24 will solve all your problems.
Differences in colors
- Refined sugar: Sugar is usually bright white.
- Raw cane sugar is colored from yellow to golden brown, brown, dark brown and resembles dark chocolate, depending on the degree of cooking, the weather at harvest and the sugarcane variety. The purple sugarcane variety produces dark brown sugar, the white sugarcane variety produces yellow sugar.
Differences in structure
- Raw cane sugar: semi-solid, softer than sugar, and amorphous.
Differences in processing
The first stage of the production of raw and refined cane sugar is the same. The first step is to boil the juice of the cane.
- Refined sugar: After boiling, molasses are treated with bone char (coal burned from animal bones) to remove all the auxiliary components in sugarcane juice, then let it condense and crystallize and we have sugar. fine.
- Raw cane sugar: After boiling, do not treat with any coal or refined to eliminate any components. That is why, in India, especially Hinduism, raw cane sugar is considered sacred, while white sugar is not. For raw sugar, the cane juice is boiled and boiled continuously until it is concentrated and poured into a mold.
Differences in structure
Both raw and refined cane sugar is mostly sucrose, but there are some differences.
- Refined sugar: Only sucrose (C12H22O12).
- Raw cane sugar: Mainly sucrose (C12H22O12), in addition to mineral salts, iron, and fiber. Especially, 12-month-old sugarcane varieties grown in ignore themselves, raw cane sugar will contain very large amounts of mineral salts and iron.
Differences in health benefits
Although both raw and refined cane sugar provides energy to the body, the mode of energy release is different.
- Refined sugar: As one of the simplest forms of cane sugar, sugar is instantly absorbed into the bloodstream and releases energy. This can prove harmful to some internal organs like kidneys, eyes, and brain, especially for diabetics. (people who are hungry due to the sudden increase or decrease of insulin is also due to a diet high in refined sugar)
- Raw cane sugar: when in a much more complex form than refined sugar, because it is made up of long chains of sucrose. Therefore, it is digested slower than sugar and the energy released slowly and not immediately. This provides energy for a long time and is not harmful to the body. However, this is also not suitable for diabetics.
- Raw cane sugar also collects a significant amount of iron salts (iron) very good for health, especially for people with anemia or iron deficiency. Again, raw cane sugar also contains mineral salts that are very beneficial to the body. You can feel when you soak a lump of raw cane sugar, it melts in your mouth and leaves a little salt on your tongue. And this is a natural mineral salt that is synthesized from the soil. Moreover, raw cane sugar is very good as a cleaning agent. It cleans the lungs, stomach, intestines, esophagus, and airways. People working in the dust such as traffic police, construction engineers, walking outside the dusty streets of Saigon Hanoi are encouraged to take a daily dose of raw cane sugar. Raw cane sugar can help with conditions such as asthma, coughs, colds, and chest congestion.
Differences in the cultural aspect
Refined sugar: It has almost no place in Indian cultural or religious activities, probably because it is considered to be of foreign origin and contains bone char (this coal is burned from animal bones).
Raw sugar: has an important place in Indian culture, perhaps because it is indigenous. In India, it is offered to gods and goddesses and is used in many religious ceremonies because it is considered holy because it is not related to the use of bone char.
Different in terms of industry and Marketing
Refined sugar: The sugar industry is highly organized and highly mechanized, nearly all types of sugar on the market are produced at the sugar mills by large corporations.
Raw cane sugar was produced for centuries before it was born and could not get out of the countryside.
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