Granulated Sugar

Granulated sugar is the common white table sugar that you always bake with. As a matter of fact, the “gran” in the word “granulated” comes from the Latin granum, which means "grain" or "seed." This word is good for describing things like sugar or salt, considering they feel gritty. Besides, granulated sugar has this coarse feeling because it has had all of the naturally present molasses refined out of it. From a chemical and nutritional point of view, this sugar does not contain - in comparison to brown sugar - some minerals (such as calcium, potassium, iron and magnesium) present in molasses, even if the quantities contained in brown sugar are so small to be actually not significant. The only detectable differences, however, are therefore those in the white color and the less intense flavor.