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Sugar for Your Tea White or Brown

The shelves of groceiy stores usually offer a sweet choice between brown and white sugar. Brown sugar is often more expensive than the more common white variety. This may very well be the fundamental cause of the belief that brown sugar is also healthier. Producers of brown sugar may not be involved in spreading this belief but they do not try to stop it, either. In fact, as far as health effects go, there is no difference between the two varieties. [Pg.98]

Still not much more. If someone were to eat enough brown sugar to supply his or her body with the necessary amoimt of minerals, it would be so much sugar that it would definitely be incompatible with human health. [Pg.100]

From a health perspective, it does not matter which sugar you use. If someone likes the dark color or the taste of molasses in brown sugar, he or she can lead just as a healthy life as a more conservative person with a preference for white sugar. [Pg.100]

Locust bean gum has a stracture that is very similar to that of guar gum, but it has a different ratio of D-marmose and D-galactose (about 3.5 1). Traditional interpretation says that St. John the Baptist survived in the desert by eating locust [Pg.100]

Tragacanth is a natural gum obtained from the dried sap of several species of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean legumes (e g. Astragalus gummifer). Tragacanth is used as a food additive in cremes and toothpaste and also has medicinal application as a binder in tablets. It is a mild laxative. Xanthan gum is produced by fermentation of D-glucose with the microorganism Xanthomonas campestris. It is one of the most important microbial polysaccharides world production topped 50,0001 in [Pg.101]


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