What is brown sugar made of?

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 the different crystal particles, it contains almost all the components in sugarcane juice because it has not been highly refined. Besides the function of sugar, it also contains vitamins and trace elements, such as iron, zinc, manganese and chromium. Its nutrient content is much higher than that of white sugar.

Before large-scale production of refined sugar, non-fractionated honey was the main consumption form of sugarcane sugar, which had different names and forms around the world, such as Japanese Okinawa brown sugar (Kokuto), Latin American brown sugar (Panela) and South Asian African coarse sugar (Jaggery), all of which were essentially concentrated sugarcane juice.