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Refined Sugar  Muscovado is a thick, unrefined sugar that has a
rich smell and is moist and thick. The good thing about this
sugar is that is contains minerals because it has not gone
through the stripping down and processing of other sugars. when
it is highly processed, sugar is turned into an ‘empty-calorie’
product that contains nothing of nutritional benefit.  Replacing
your usual white sugar with muscovado sugar at home can help
lower the amount of ‘empty calories’ you consume.  The
extraction process of muscovado sugar is very simple; the
extracted juice from the sugar cane is boiled until it has
reduced to about 30 percent. The residue is then dried out and
it solidifies to form the sugar granules known as muscovado
sugar. In comparison, white sugar undergoes additional heating,
filtering and bleaching stages, which removes most of its
nutritional content in the process. Another health benefit
muscovado sugar has over refined sugar is that i