1. Brown sugar is the product of rough processing of sugarcane stems. Although there are many impurities in brown sugar, its nutrients are well preserved. Therefore, it has the effects of invigorating qi, relieving middle warmer, helping spleen to promote digestion, enriching blood and breaking blood stasis, and also has the effects of dispelling cold and relieving pain. Therefore, it is often effective for female compatriots to drink some brown sugar water because of cold and physical weakness or postpartum dysmenorrhea.

Brown sugar has an excellent nourishing effect on the elderly, especially those who have recovered from a serious illness. In addition, brown sugar has a certain therapeutic effect on arteriosclerosis, and it is not easy to induce dental diseases such as dental caries.

2. White sugar is made of brown sugar through washing, centrifugation, honey separation and peeling. Sweet, flat, can moisten the lungs and produce fluid, used for lung dryness and cough; Insufficient body fluid, dry mouth; Abdominal pain due to spleen deficiency, or excessive drinking and disharmony between stomach and qi.

3. Rock sugar is made by recrystallization of white sugar under certain conditions. It can nourish yin, promote fluid production, moisten lung and relieve cough, and has a good therapeutic effect on lung dry cough, dry cough without phlegm and blood in phlegm.

I use rock sugar to make jam.

I use brown sugar to make steamed bread.

In fact, no matter what kind of sugar, eating too much is not good, and eating less is good for your health.

Brown sugar is the simplest. Traditional brown sugar is obtained by filtering raw sugar juice and drying it.

White sugar needs to be purified, decolored and then dried. Compared with brown sugar, white sugar has fewer impurities, higher whiteness and purer sweetness.

If the purified and decolored sugar water is crystallized, it will eventually get a large crystal product, that is, rock sugar.

In terms of health care:

Brown sugar: warming the middle and promoting blood circulation

Brown sugar has several colors because of its different origin and production methods. Some are black, called brown sugar; Others are yellowish or even yellowish, and some places call them yellow sugar. But whether it is brown sugar or yellow sugar, it is what we call brown sugar in general. Compared with white sugar and rock sugar, brown sugar also contains riboflavin, carotene, nicotinic acid, manganese, zinc, chromium and other trace elements necessary for human growth and development. Nutrition is expensive, which has a strong stimulating effect on human hematopoietic function.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, brown sugar is warm and sweet, enters the spleen, and has the functions of invigorating qi and enriching blood, invigorating spleen and warming stomach, relieving pain, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The advantage of brown sugar lies in "warming, warming, warming and dispersing", which is what we commonly call warming.

Rock sugar: moistening lung and clearing fire

Contrary to brown sugar, rock sugar is cold. Use brown sugar for cold and rock sugar for wind and heat.

Rock sugar is sweet and flat, and enters the lungs and spleen; Has the effects of invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, regulating stomach and moistening lung; Rock candy can nourish yin and promote fluid production, moisten lung and relieve cough, and has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on lung dry cough, dry cough without phlegm and expectoration with blood; Used for cough and asthma, malaria in children, aphtha and toothache caused by lung dryness, lung deficiency and wind-cold fatigue.

White sugar: detoxification and emergency treatment

About 70% of the energy required for human activities is provided by sugar, and white sugar is the most commonly used condiment. However, because white sugar is refined, compared with brown sugar, the nutritional elements in it have been relatively reduced, which mainly plays the role of seasoning.

White sugar is flat and sweet, and has the effects of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, invigorating middle warmer, resolving phlegm, relieving cough and detoxicating, and sobering up.