Brown sugar is not healthier than white sugar Many people nowadays, especially those who follow a diet or worry about what they eat , they have a tendency to opt for what is healthiest, which is obviously the right thing to do if eating healthy is a primary concern. However, as brown rice and whole grain bread are known to be healthier than white rice and white bread according to the Kids Health organization and the Whole Grain Council. This question now: Is there any truth behind the fact that some people believe this trend could spread to cane sugar too? And what evidence do these people have to support their ideas? And what is actually the difference between brown sugar and white sugar in terms of origins, history and production, and is that difference significant enough to make brown sugar a better option than white sugar? But sure, white sugar has different nutritional values ​​and may contain different ingredients, but this means that brown sugar is better than white sugar. Sugar is a general term for soluble, sweet, short-chain carbohydrates. It is mainly used for human consumption. There are many types of sugars obtained from various sources. Simple sugars are called monosaccharides such as glucose. Granulated table 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 sugar are obtained from sugar cane or beet ( Cheesman 51) . Brown sugar is an inclusion of molasses and water, and brown sugar has fewer calories than white sugar. So, white sugar tastes sweeter than brown sugar. However, cane sugar has a unique brown color and i...... middle of paper ......tion in northeastern Brazil and Cuba, 1858-1908. New York: Garland, 1987. Print.Griggs, P.D. Global industry, local innovation: the history of cane sugar production in Australia, 1820-1995. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. Print.Cock, Matthew and Gillian Allard. “Observations of white grubs affecting sugarcane at the Juba Sugar Project, southwestern Somalia, in the 1980s, and implications for their management.” Insects 4.2 (2013): 241-272. Print.Cavaliere, G. Roger. “A House of Honey: White Sugar, Brown Sugar, and the Taste of Modernity in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia.” Food and food journeys 17.4 (2009): 197-214. Print.Sunderland, Jane. “‘Brown Sugar’: The Textual Construction of Femininity in Two ‘Little Texts’.” Gender and Language 6.1 (2012): 45-67. Print.Harloff, W.H. Th., and H. Schmidt. Production of white sugar on plantations. London: N. Rodger, 1913. Print.