Grandmother's Trick for Soft Brown Sugar Have you ever opened a bag of brown sugar, used a bit, and sealed it back up as tightly as you can, only to come back to it a week later and find either ...

When a recipe calls for brown sugar, it is most likely light brown sugar as it is more popular and universal. But again, in most applications, it won't matter either way.

Sugars that are added to food, like cane sugar, brown rice syrup, and coconut sugar, are processed to some degree," said Amy Keating, Consumer Reports.

Along with white sugar, brown sugar is considered an " added sugar," so the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends limiting one's intake of it to under 50 grams (about 12 teaspoons) per day.