brown sugar
Also known as cassonade, soft brown sugar, brown caster sugar
form of sucrose
Picture of the Day · NASA
Jupiter and Venus from Earth
2026-06-07
It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter (left) and Venus (right) in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on our planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them. That year, a creative photographer traveled away from the town lights of Szubin, Poland to photograph a near closest approach of the two planets. The bright planets were then separated by only three degrees and his daughter struck a humorous pose. A faint red sunset still glowed in the background. Jupiter and Venus are together again this week after sunset, passing within a degree of each other about two days from today.
© Marek Nikodem (PPSAE) · via NASA APOD
Key facts
- Energy
- 380 kcal (1,600 kJ)
- Carbohydrates
- 98 g
- Sugars sucrose glucose
- 97 g 95 g 1 g
- Dietary fiber
- 0 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Protein
- 0.1 g
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Clockwise from top left: White refined, unrefined, brown, and unprocessed cane sugars Brown sugar crystals
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 produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar. Brown sugar is 98% carbohydrates (95% as sucrose), containing no dietary fiber or fat, and negligible protein and micronutrient content.