Brown sugar The raw material of brown sugar is sugarcane, which contains about 95% sucrose. In the ancient method, harvested sugarcane was chopped and crushed, and impurities such as soil, bacteria and fiber were removed from the squeezed juice. Then it is boiled for 5-6 hours with low fire, and the water is slowly evaporated by continuous stirring, so that the sugar concentration is gradually increased, and the high-concentration syrup is solidified into solid blocks of coarse sugar, namely brown sugar bricks, which maintains the original nutrition of sugarcane. The longer the cooking time in the production process, the darker the color of the brown sugar brick, which makes the brown sugar appear reddish brown in different shades. Our common traditional brown sugar powder is made of brown sugar bricks and then ground.
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With the improvement of health concept, the traditional brown sugar, which can detoxify and maintain beauty, has got rid of the old image and become a popular hot commodity in the market. The main reason is that it is very helpful to health. Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar has the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing blood, invigorating spleen and warming stomach, expelling wind and cold, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is especially suitable for pregnant women, children and anemic people.
Beauty effect
Brown sugar is popular in Japan because it contains a kind of "molasses" component, which has a strong detoxification effect and can lead excess melanin out of the dermis and excrete it through lymphatic tissue. In addition, it also contains carotene, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, amino acids, glucose and other components, which have strong antioxidant and repair effects on cells, and can make subcutaneous cells grow rapidly after removing melanin, thus achieving the effects of preventing melanin generation and continuously whitening. These effects of beauty and health care make brown sugar the new favorite of consumers who pursue beauty and health.
Brown sugar is rich in minerals, vitamins and amino acids, which can not only make the skin smooth and attractive, but also promote the metabolism of sunburned skin. Put 300 grams of brown sugar into a pot, add a little mineral water, cook it with slow fire until it is black paste, cool it, put it in a bottle, apply it to the face, and wash it with warm water after 5~ 10 minutes.
Health care formula
Jujube tea: 10 jujube, boiled in water, added with brown sugar, mixed with black tea water, once taken, has the functions of invigorating qi and blood, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach. It is especially suitable for infants, middle-aged and elderly people.
Strong tea and brown sugar drink: appropriate amount of tea and brown sugar. Boil a bowl of strong tea, remove residue, dissolve brown sugar and drink. Once a day. The function of clearing heat and regulating menstruation. Indications: premenstrual excess.
Hawthorn brown sugar drink: 50 grams of raw hawthorn meat and 40 grams of brown sugar. Boil hawthorn to remove residue, pour in brown sugar and drink while it is hot. Non-pregnant women can take it several times, and menstrual blood can also be excreted. Function of promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, mainly aimed at female menstrual disorder.
Cook with brown sugar
Even though brown sugar has many health benefits, it is still sugar in essence, and it still plays a role in seasoning when cooking. Brown sugar has high sweetness, unique flavor and color enhancement. It is very suitable for making cakes such as black tea soup, ginger soup and brown sugar cake, which can not only increase the aroma, make the dishes more rosy and attractive, but also increase nutrition and health.
Many health-conscious families have begun to use brown sugar instead of yellow sugar or white sugar in general cooking. When replacing with brown sugar, we should be careful not to completely replace the amount of white sugar or yellow sugar to flavor, because the sweetness of white sugar and yellow sugar is lower than that of brown sugar. If the same amount of brown sugar is added, the taste will be too sweet and the color of the dish will be too dark. It is necessary to reduce the amount appropriately and consider increasing the dishes.
Health care brown sugar water
Brown sugar rice cake Boiling brown sugar into brown sugar water is easier to absorb the nutrients in it than eating it directly, and it has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, strengthening the spleen and stomach and warming the stomach. Brown sugar water is the most common and practical brown sugar health drink in the early days. Pregnant women lose a lot of blood after delivery and consume a lot of physical strength and energy. Drinking brown sugar water 7 ~ 10 days after delivery can replenish energy and increase blood volume, which is beneficial to the recovery of postpartum physical strength, and also has obvious promotion effect on postpartum uterine contraction, recovery, lochia discharge and milk secretion.
Brown sugar water is also helpful for women's smooth menstruation, which can warm the body, increase energy, activate qi and blood, accelerate blood circulation and make menstruation smoother. If you feel bad after menstruation, you can drink a cup of brown sugar water with a concentration of about 20% before lunch every day. When the symptoms of discomfort are serious, you can drink another cup before meals, which can last for a week and effectively improve.
In addition to drinking brown sugar water, it can also be applied externally, and it also has the effect of detoxifying and moistening dryness. Most of the older generation experienced that their children were stung by bees, and the wound was red and swollen, and the pain was unbearable. At this time, parents will take a little brown sugar water with high concentration and apply it to the red and swollen place, so that the pain will be relieved in a short time and the red and swollen will gradually fade away. In autumn and winter, the skin is itchy due to cold and dryness, and it can also be washed with brown sugar water, which can effectively reduce the feeling of dryness and itching.
Brown sugar water can also be cooked with tremella, medlar, red dates or red beans, which is beneficial to diuresis, helps to discharge uterine waste during menstruation, and can alleviate the symptoms of abdominal distension and tight waist; Boiling brown sugar with longan and ginger juice has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer and replenishing blood; Cooking sweet potato, brown sugar and ginger juice together not only has health-preserving effect, but also is a unique snack.
Eating brown sugar can delay aging.
The special function of brown sugar mainly benefits from its natural ingredients. According to 20 years' in-depth research by dermatologists at Saite Skin Research Center in Hong Kong, brown sugar contains a lot of nutrients that have a unique effect on skin health and nutrition.
1, brown sugar contains monosaccharide and polysaccharide energy substances such as glucose and fructose, which can accelerate the metabolism of skin cells and provide energy for cells.
2. Folic acid and trace substances contained in brown sugar can accelerate blood circulation, increase blood volume, stimulate hematopoietic function, expand blood volume and improve nutrition, oxygen and water supply of local skin.
3. Some vitamins and electrolytes contained in brown sugar can balance water-liquid metabolism in the intracellular environment, eliminate cellular metabolites and keep the internal and external environment clean by adjusting the concentration of certain substances between tissues.
4. Various vitamins and antioxidants contained in brown sugar can resist free radicals, rebuild and protect the cell infrastructure, and maintain the normal function and metabolism of cells.
5. The amino acids, cellulose and other substances contained in brown sugar can effectively protect and restore the fiber structure and water-locking ability of epidermis and dermis, strengthen the skin tissue structure and skin elasticity, supplement skin nutrition and promote cell regeneration.
6. Some natural acids and pigment regulating substances contained in brown sugar can effectively regulate various pigment metabolism processes, balance pigment secretion and pigment distribution in the skin, and reduce abnormal accumulation of local pigments.
7. Chinese medicine believes that women's postpartum body congestion, eight pulse emptiness, each causing abdominal pain. Doctors often prescribe Shenghua Decoction, Stone Dissipation or Jinlingzi Powder to some patients with blood stasis, and instruct them to take it with brown sugar after decoction, so as to achieve the purpose of relieving pain by using the function of brown sugar to "dredge blood stasis" or "expel lochia". "Women can't be sugar-free for a hundred days" refers to brown sugar. It is said that a young woman was weak because of a long illness. After she got pregnant, she was worried that she would not be pregnant. After adopting the traditional dietotherapy method in China, she designed a kind of "symptomatic food" to warm up deficiency and cold: she was given food such as lying eggs made of glutinous rice wine, brown sugar, sesame and millet porridge. As a result, she not only gave birth to a healthy baby, but also became stronger and healthier than before.
8. Chinese medicine nutrition believes that warm brown sugar plays a role in enriching blood by "warming it, warming it, and warming it". Relatively speaking, although sugar tastes sweet, it is white in color and flat in nature, and its blood-enriching effect is far less than that of brown sugar. Therefore, everyone keeps brown sugar to eat. Usually, we should pay attention to adding some brown sugar to the diet to maintain normal metabolic function and delay aging. Suitable for people to edit this paragraph and return to the directory.
Brown sugar-the cooled brown sugar is unrefined coarse sugar, which retains more vitamins and minerals. It is generally believed that brown sugar is suitable for women with irregular menstruation and just given birth to children. In fact, brown sugar is more suitable for the elderly, especially those who are old, weak and recovering from a serious illness.
Brown sugar usually refers to the finished sugar of sugar cane with honey, and generally refers to the honey formed after sugar cane is squeezed, simply treated and concentrated. Brown sugar is divided into brown sugar, brown sugar powder and bowl sugar. According to the different crystal particles, almost all the components in sugarcane juice are retained because they are not highly refined. Besides the function of sugar, it also contains vitamins and trace elements, such as iron, zinc, manganese and chromium. And the nutrients are much higher than sugar.
Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar is warm, sweet and enters the spleen, which has the functions of invigorating qi and enriching blood, invigorating spleen and warming stomach, relieving pain, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The intake of trace elements and vitamins in the elderly is gradually decreasing, so attention should be paid to supplementing them in the diet to maintain normal metabolic function and delay aging. According to records,1000g of brown sugar contains 900mg of calcium and1000g of iron, which are essential minerals and trace elements for human body. An expert uses atomic fluorescence.
It is found that brown sugar is rich in trace elements, some of which have a strong stimulating effect on hematopoiesis. Therefore, it seems reasonable that people used brown sugar to nourish postpartum women.
Every 100g brown sugar contains 90 mg of calcium, 4 mg of iron and a small amount of riboflavin and carotene. Japanese researchers also extracted a polysaccharide called "molasses" from brown sugar. Experiments show that it has strong antioxidant effect and obvious anti-aging effect.
Old people should choose more brown sugar when eating sugar. Old people in Japan's famous Changshou Prefecture and Okinawa Prefecture have the habit of drinking a cup of brown sugar water every day.