"Edible sugar" what are white sugar, brown sugar and rock sugar made of? What's the difference between the three?

Sugar is one of the main sources of nutrition for the human body. Sugar is mainly eaten by white sugar, brown sugar and rock sugar. They are all extracted from sugar cane and sugar beet, and the main components of these three kinds of sugar are sucrose. What are white sugar, brown sugar and rock sugar made of?

White granulated sugar

Granulated sugar is a kind of sugar. Its particles are crystalline, uniform, white in color, pure in sweetness, and slightly lower in sweetness than brown sugar. It is often used in cooking. Proper consumption of white sugar has the effect of tonifying qi, moistening stomach and lung, nourishing yin and stopping sweating.

In GB 13104-2014, white granulated sugar is defined as sucrose crystallization made from sugarcane or sugar beet by extracting sugar juice, cleaning treatment, boiling crystallization and honey distribution. Cotton white sugar is powdered, suitable for cooking, and its sweetness is similar to that of white granulated sugar. There are two kinds of cotton white sugar: refined cotton white sugar and native cotton white sugar. The former has white color, fine and soft grains and good quality, while the latter is slightly yellowish and poor in quality.

White granulated sugar is the most important variety of edible sugar. In foreign countries, 100% of edible sugar is white granulated sugar, and white granulated sugar accounts for more than 90% of the total edible sugar in China. White granulated sugar is divided into refined, excellent, first and second grade.

Brown sugar

Brown sugar refers to the finished sugar of sugarcane with honey, which is formed by juice extraction and concentration of sugarcane. Brown sugar is divided into slice sugar, brown sugar powder, bowl sugar and so on according to different crystal granules. Because it has not been highly refined, it contains almost all the ingredients in sugarcane juice.

Specific production process:

(1) the whole process from sugarcane to brown sugar is a physical process, and there is no chemical change.

(2) squeeze out the sugarcane water and heat it in the pot to evaporate the water, and the rest is brown sugar.

(3) in the whole production process, only a little oil (a kind of oil extracted from nuts from the tree) is added in the process of heating, and some people use cheap lychee oil instead.

(4) there is a very important process, that is, if you cool the brown sugar directly, that is, the so-called "cowhide candy", you can't bite the brown sugar with your teeth or cut it with a knife. In a word, you can't eat it. To stir the brown sugar in a large wooden basin with a diameter of more than 2 meters to cool, the brown sugar in the liquid will become brown sugar in the market as we see it.

Rock sugar

Rock sugar is an ice-like crystal made from white granulated sugar. it is a large grain crystalline sugar made from sucrose plus protein raw material, dissolving and recrystallizing after clean treatment. it has two kinds of single crystal and polycrystal, which is transparent or translucent.

Because of its crystal like ice, it is called rock sugar, also known as "ice grain". Naturally generated rock candy has white, yellowish, light gray and other colors, in addition, there are all kinds of color rock candy with food pigments on the market (mainly used for export), such as green, blue, orange, reddish, crimson and other colors.

The difference between white sugar, rock sugar and brown sugar

1. The difference in the production process

White sugar, rock sugar and brown sugar are all extracted from sugar cane and sugar beet, and all belong to the category of sucrose.

Brown sugar is a mixture of sucrose and molasses

White sugar is made from brown sugar by washing, centrifugation, honey separation, polishing and other processes.

Rock sugar is formed by recrystallization of white sugar under certain conditions.

Their chemical composition is sucrose.

2. The difference of efficacy

White sugar can detoxify and treat emergency.

White sugar is the most commonly used condiment, but because white sugar is refined, there are very few nutrients in it, so it mainly plays a seasoning role. And white sugar also contains a lot of sugar, eating too much will affect your health.

Sometimes we also use white sugar in diet and health care, because it has a certain effect of moistening the lungs and clearing away lung heat. However, rock sugar is more effective in clearing lung heat, and rock sugar is the first choice for stew.

White sugar also has a certain detoxification effect. In fact, all sweet sugars have a little detoxification effect, while white sugar has a faster effect because of its very high sugar content. In the past, if someone ate something toxic, in an emergency, people would immediately give him sugar water to detoxify. Drinking sugar water can also neutralize the poison of fish and shrimp. For example, when eating crabs, brown sugar should not be put in. Because the crab is cold, brown sugar conflicts with it. Therefore, after eating crabs, it is suggested that everyone can drink a bowl of ginger water.

Practice:

1. Peel the ginger and cut it into thin shreds.

2. Put a little sugar in this shredded ginger, then rinse it with boiling water and simmer for 1 minute, then you can drink it.

After drinking, you will feel warm and comfortable inside. Some people suddenly have a stomachache and discomfort, and immediately drink hot sugar water, which has the effect of relieving pain. If you can identify your abdominal pain as cold, you can drink brown sugar water. But if you suddenly have a stomachache and can't judge right away, it's a more convenient choice to use sugar. Some people do not eat for a day, feel dizzy, this is a reaction of hypoglycemia, immediately drink a glass of sugar water can also relieve.

We are used to cooking with white sugar, one reason is that white sugar dissolves quickly, and another reason is that brown sugar is not suitable to be cooked for a long time.

But sugar is a kind of acidic food, after eating, it will make our blood tend to be acidic, and this effect is very strong. The human body can only stay healthy when it is weakly alkaline. If the blood is acidic for a long time, toxins in our bodies will accumulate and cancer cells will grow in an acidic environment. Therefore, when we use white sugar, try to control its dosage, it will be healthier.

Brown sugar can tonify blood, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

Although it is not refined sugar, do not think that it is relatively low-grade. Brown sugar is a very good thing, female friends are generally familiar with it, it is to tonify qi and blood. Women must drink brown sugar water after delivery, which can not only replenish qi and blood, but also help her expel lochia as soon as possible; in addition, when treating cold and cold, we should use brown sugar to regulate weakness of spleen and stomach, and brown sugar is also indispensable.

Women all want to tonify the blood, but sometimes they can't even take expensive tonifying drugs, because it's out of the way. Blindly make up is no good, must melt away the old blood stasis, in order to facilitate the production of new blood, therefore, female friends usually eat more brown sugar is very good, both tonifying blood and promoting blood circulation, can make you look better. Moreover, brown sugar is also a warm thing, which can be used to recuperate all cold diseases.

Brown sugar is not a special product for women. Frail people and the elderly can benefit from eating brown sugar. Brown sugar is rich in nutrition and low in sugar content. If you use the same amount of white sugar, brown sugar and rock sugar, brown sugar has the least sugar content, because it is virgin sugar, which contains only 95% sugar, and the rest are minerals and vitamins.

Compared with white sugar, brown sugar contains more things that are beneficial to our body. The trace elements contained in brown sugar have a strong stimulating effect on the hematopoietic machine of the human body, which is the key to its ability to replenish blood. In daily life, you can consider using brown sugar instead of white sugar when cooking, so that your family can have more opportunities to eat brown sugar, which not only controls the overall intake of sugar, but also makes use of the nutrition of brown sugar.

Brown sugar should not be boiled for a long time. It is generally suitable for making cold dishes. Put a little brown sugar in the salad, it will taste better. And most of the raw dishes are cold, and you can warm your stomach with a little brown sugar. Brown sugar is lumped, not as fast as white sugar. It is best not to mix vegetables directly and put them after they have been stirred in the sauce.

It is important to note that brown sugar is rich in minerals and easy to produce chemical reactions. If you cook food with brown sugar, be careful not to keep it warm in the pot for too long. Especially when you use an iron pot, it is easier to have a chemical reaction with brown sugar, so brown sugar is generally better when you start the pot.

Note: Brown sugar is warm. People with hot physique should use it cautiously. If you eat too much, it is easy to get damp and hot. It is not suitable for children to eat more brown sugar. Throughout the year, we should eat less brown sugar in spring.

Rock sugar can moisturize the lungs and clear the fire.

In contrast to brown sugar, rock sugar is cool. If a cold uses brown sugar, a wind-fever cold is rock sugar.

Brown sugar is suitable for summer and winter, while rock candy is suitable for spring and autumn. In spring, when the weather begins to get hot, many people are prone to cough, fever and dry cough. If it is a dry cough without phlegm, you can use rock candy. It can not only clear the fire, but also moisten our lungs and remove lung heat. We use rock sugar more often than brown sugar in spring. If you like to drink brown sugar water, you can reduce the amount appropriately in spring, because brown sugar is warm and may cause anger.