Brown sugar
About the ingredient brown sugar. Including 4,600 recipes with brown sugar, nutrition data, photos, where it's found, and video.
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What is brown sugar?
Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. It is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals with some residual molasses content, or it is produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar.
Brown sugar contains from 3.5% molasses ( light brown sugar )
to 6.5% molasses ( dark brown sugar ).
Brown sugar has a slightly lower caloric value by weight than white sugar due to the presence of water. One hundred grams of brown sugar contains 373 calories, as opposed to 396 calories in white sugar.
However, brown sugar packs more densely than white sugar due to the smaller crystal size and may have more calories when measured by volume. One tablespoon of brown sugar has 48 calories against 45 calories for white sugar.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 cup, packed packed (220g)Where found
Brown sugar is usually found in the baking supplies section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Food group
Brown sugar is a member of the Sweets US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.
How much does brown sugar weigh?
| Amount | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 cup, packed packed | 220 grams |
| 1 cup, unpacked unpacked | 145 grams |
| 1 tsp brownulated | 3 grams |
| 1 tsp packed packed | 4 grams |
| 1 tsp unpacked unpacked | 3 grams |
Related
Sweets
| In Chinese: | 红糖 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | sucre roux | |
| en español: | azucar moreno |
Recipes using brown sugar
There are 4600 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Adam's Chai Latte Ice Cream
My brother Adam loves this ice cream so much that I asked him for the recipe. It's a Chai Latte with chunks of gingerbread cookies hidden within.
Chow Mein in Chanterelle Sauce with Fresh Herbs
Vegan. I always wondered how would chanterelles taste with typical ingredients of Chinese cuisine. Now I know. Of course I wouldn't be myself if I didn't make it my way.
Chocolate Ice Cream With Chocolate Chunks & Pistachios
The chocolate chunks and pistachios added extra yumminess. I couldn't stop eating it. So good!
