Re: Information on the Brown Sugar/Molasses Confusion

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone: I don't know if this will help the " molasses brown

sugar " discussion or muddy the waters. Ian posted this in March.

Personally i am going with Ian, in moderation of course. :-)

Sharon

Papillary cancer stage 4 (lymph nodes involved)

TT June 2001

RAI (177.5) July 2001

year scan coming up

> Hi Leah

>

> > This is a moister beet or cane sugar which comes light or dark-

the

> > latter more strongly flavored with molasses.

> > **It reads to me that light is not made with molasses while dark

is?

>

> It reads to me that light is less strongly flavoured with molasses.

>

> I have absolutely no idea why molasses should be contraindicated on

the LID,

> I have never seen any evidence of high iodine levels in the stuff

apart from:

>

> 1) a cattle feed based on molasses, to which assorted minerals

including

> iodine have been added, and

> 2)ferric iodide in molasses that was used as a medicine a very long

time ago.

>

> Not only is this question unanswerable until someone can point to

some

> research, but an important question remains unanswered - how much

iodine is

> in molasses? If the level is raised a bit above trace levels then

it's not a

> problem, because there's not much of it in brown sugar, and you

don't eat

> much sugar at once.

>

> Personally, I don't believe that there is a problem with brown

sugar (any

> shade).

>

> Ian

> >

>

> Ian Adam

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