Which Has More Calories: Brown Sugar or White Sugar?

Most of the sugar consumed around the world is refined sugar derived from sugar cane. Sugar extracted from sugar cane can be white or brown.

What Makes Brown Sugar Brown?

Sugar is brown due to the addition of molasses at time of processing or may be brown in the first phase of processing prior the refining process take place

Calories In Brown Sugar

Brown sugar containing molasses has a high water content than white sugar. The calories of brown sugar per gram is 3.73.

Calories In White Sugar

White sugar has a low water content than brown sugar and it contains 3.96 calories per gram.

One Teaspoon Of White Sugar

The granule size of white sugar is very uniform in size. Using a standard measuring teaspoon, one teaspoon contain about 4 grams of sugar and about 16 calories.

One Teaspoon of Brown Sugar

The granule size of brown sugar is tend to be a little in size. The additional water content from the molasses makes it possible to pack the sugar into a teaspoon or other measuring device. Depending on how hard the sugar is packed means varying calorie content per teaspoon. The harder the sugar is packed, the greater the calorie content. Gram for gram, white sugar has more calories, but measure for measure, brown sugar may have more calories.

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