What kind of plant is sugarcane?

Sugarcane is a kind of sugarcane plant of Gramineae, which grows in temperate and tropical regions and has strong rhizomes. It is a raw material for making sucrose. Its epidermis is generally purple and green two common colors, there are also red and brown, but relatively rare. According to its use, it is mainly divided into fruit cane and sugar cane:

1. chewing cane

Sugar cane is an edible fruit cane, a kind of sugar cane for fresh food. Its characteristics are juicy sweet, crisp and refreshing. According to the skin color of sugarcane, there are two kinds of sugarcane: yellow skin sugarcane and black skin sugarcane. The producing areas are mainly in Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and other provinces.

Among them, black-skinned sugarcane is a perennial plant, and its harvest can reach 7-8 times, which is generally 3 times in China, that is, three years later, the perennials are dug out and replanted. The yellow peel fruit cane has the advantages of thin skin, full juice, sweet, flower fragrance and good taste. It is one of the favorite winter fruits. It tastes sweet and cool, has the effect of clearing heat, can relieve lung heat and intestinal stomach heat, cough, phlegm and yellow thick turbid people.

2. sugarcane

Sugar cane is a kind of sugarcane, its bagasse can be processed into fiber spinning fabric, can be made of cane board, paper, can also refine alcohol, sugar aldehyde, plastic and so on. The common varieties are Taitang 20, 22, 24, 26 series, early-maturing high sugar 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11.

Sugar cane can be used by the general population, but it should be noted that people with spleen and stomach deficiency cold and stomach pain had better not eat it.