Brown Sugar: Why It Is Brown

Brown sugar as the name indicates is brown in colour due to the presence of molasses is a sucrose sugar product. It may be unrefined or partially refined with soft sugar crystals with some residual molasses content or it may be refined to produce white sugar by addition of molasses. The colour may vary from light brown to dark brown depending upon the percentage of molasses. Light brown sugars have 3.5% molasses while dark brown ones contain 6.5% molasses. The product is naturally moist as it is hygroscopic in nature and is labeled soft. The product undergoes processing in order to achieve a highly refined product. Sometimes dyes and other synthetic chemicals are often added to it for industrial purposes.

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