Re: sugar questions
[quote=tinapbeana]you might want to consider keeping molasses on hand. unlike most other sweeteners, it has significant nutritional value, including 20% RDA for manganese, 15% for copper and iron, and about 10% for calcium, potassium, and magnesium. a true super sweetener! cane juice and maple syrup also offer vitamin B2 and manganese, respectively, whereas honey typically has no appreciable nutrient content.
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we simply use whatever we have on hand which is usually white/brown sugar, honey, or maple syrup so i can't really help you there...i think i remember hearing that both white and brown sugar are refined and one doesn't have health benefits over the other. That's all i know...
tina, your mention of cane juice made me salivate...
living in hawaii, we're lucky enough to be able to actually enjoy sugar cane as is... when i was a kid my mom would buy a stalk, peel away the outside, cut the inside into small chunks, chill it and then we would all chew the juice out of the sugar cane before spitting the fibrous part into the trash... it was so fresh and delicious...
also, when we were visiting vietnam they actually sell pure sugar cane juice as a drink... they take a stalk and run it thru a press which smashes out the juice... add a piece of ice to the drink and voila, sugar cane juice...
then i followed the link and found that wasn't what you were talking about at all... hahaha. go figure huh?
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