What is "brown sugar"

n. 1 Sugar which has been only partially refined and still contains molasses. 2 Refined sugar to which molasses has been added. 3 Street name for heroin.

n. unrefined or only partly refined sugar

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 (natural brown sugar), or it is produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar (commercial brown sugar).

The Codex Alimentarius requires brown sugar to contain at least 88% of sucrose plus invert sugar. Commercial brown sugar contains from 4.5% molasses (light brown sugar) to 6.5% molasses (dark brown sugar) based on total volume. Based on total weight, regular commercial brown sugar contains up to 10% molasses. The product is naturally moist from the hygroscopic nature of the molasses and is often labelled as "soft." The product may undergo processing to give a product that flows better for industrial handling. The addition of dyes and/or other chemicals may be permitted in some areas or for industrial products.

Particle size is variable but generally less than granulated white sugar. Products for industrial use (e.g., the industrial production of cakes) may be based on caster sugar which has crystals of approximately 0.35 mm.

"Brown Sugar" is a song by The Rolling Stones. It is the opening track and lead single from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 495 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and at No. 5 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.

Brown Sugar is the debut album of American recording artist D'Angelo, released on July 4, 1995, by EMI Music. Recording sessions for the album took place from 1994 to 1995 at Battery Studios and RPM Studios in New York City and at the Pookie Lab in Sacramento. Production, instrumentation, arrangements, and songwriting were primarily handled by D'Angelo, who employed both vintage recording equipment and modern electronic devices. Brown Sugar contains themes of love and romance, and features a fusion of contemporary R&B and traditional soul music, along with elements of funk, quiet storm, and hip hop music.

Brown Sugar debuted at number six on the US Billboard Top R&B Albums chart, selling 300,000 copies in its first two months. With the help of its four singles, it spent 65 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and attained platinum shipments within a year of its release. Upon its release, Brown Sugar received acclaim from music critics and earned D'Angelo several accolades, including four Grammy Award nominations. Regarded by music writers as a pivotal album in neo soul, the album provided commercial visibility to the musical movement, amid the prominence of producer-driven, digitally approached R&B.

Brown sugar is unrefined or partially refined soft sugar.

Brown Sugar may also refer to:

• "Brown Sugar" (The Rolling Stones song), by the Rolling Stones
• Brown Sugar (Freddie Roach album) a 1964 album by jazz organist Freddie Roach
• Brown Sugar (D'Angelo album)
  • "Brown Sugar" (D'Angelo song)
• Brown Sugar (1922 film), a 1922 British silent film directed by Fred Paul
• Brown Sugar (1931 film), a 1931 British romantic drama starring Constance Carpenter
• Brown Sugar (2002 film), a 2002 American romantic drama starring Taye Diggs
  • Brown Sugar (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 2002 film
• "Brown Sugar", song by ZZ Top from ZZ Top's First Album
• Brown Sugar, "street name" for heroin
• Brown Sugar, crayon color of Crayola Heads 'n Tails
• Brown Sugar (group), a British female vocal reggae group formed in 1976

Brown Sugar is a 1931 British romance film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Constance Carpenter, Francis Lister, Alan Aynesworth and Helen Haye. It was largely filmed at Twickenham Studios in west London.

Brown Sugar is the soundtrack to the 2002 drama film, Brown Sugar. It was released on September 24, 2002 through MCA Records and consisted of hip hop and R&B music. The soundtrack found a fair amount of success, peaking at 16 on the Billboard 200, 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and 1 on the Top Soundtracks, and featured Erykah Badu and Common's successful single " Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)", which went to 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks.

Brown Sugar is a 2002 American romantic comedy film written by Michael Elliott and Rick Famuyiwa, directed by Famuyiwa, and starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan. The film is a story of a lifelong friends, A&R Andre and Editor-in-Chief Sidney. The two can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single, seminal childhood moment - the day they discovered hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, as they lay down the tracks toward their futures, hip-hop isn't the only thing that keeps them coming back to that moment on the corner.

The movie was released in the US on October 11, 2002 and ran for 16 weeks, grossing $27,363,891 domestically and $952,560 in the foreign sector for a worldwide total of $28,316,451.

Brown Sugar is the fourth album by American organist Freddie Roach recorded in 1964 and released on the Blue Note label.

"Brown Sugar" is a song by American recording artist D'Angelo, taken from his debut album, of the same name. The song was released as the album's lead single in 1995, through Cooltempo records. The song was written and produced by D'Angelo and frequent collaborator Ali Shaheed Muhammad.

Brown Sugar is a 1922 British silent romance film directed by Fred Paul and starring Owen Nares, Lillian Hall-Davis and Eric Lewis. It was based on a play by Lady Arthur Lever.

Brown Sugar was a London-based British female vocal group who formed in 1976. The members were Pauline Catlin, Caron Wheeler and Carol Simms. Although short lived, the trio were influential and enjoyed unprecedented success topping the British Reggae charts on three occasions.