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What is the difference between brown sugar and white sugar?
1, the extraction process is different.

There are two kinds of common white sugar: white sugar and soft sugar, which are extracted from sugarcane or beet and then refined, purified and decolored. In the process of refining and purification, some "impurities", burnt taste and caramel color in sugarcane will be removed, so it looks white, but at the same time some rich nutrients in brown sugar are also discarded.

Brown sugar is just a kind of brown sugar, which belongs to sucrose. But brown sugar is sucrose that has not been highly refined and decolored, and brown sugar is a finished sugar that has been refined and crystallized many times. There is no essential difference between the two.

2, the effect is different

Sugar is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and belongs to spleen and lung meridians. Has the effects of moistening lung, promoting salivation, relieving cough, harmonizing middle warmer, benefiting lung, soothing liver, nourishing yin and flavoring. It is suggested that you can put some sugar to taste when cooking, which can not only increase the delicacy of dishes, but also play a certain health care role. Clinically, Chinese medicine will use sugar to promote wound healing and treat long-lasting wounds.

Brown sugar, brown sugar, rock sugar, this kind of colored sugar, their processing degree is lower than that of white sugar, especially red and black brown sugar, which has the lowest processing degree, not only the lowest sucrose content among the four kinds of sugar, but also the weakest influence on blood sugar fluctuation.

Moreover, brown sugar is also rich in vitamins B 1, B2, calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron and other nutrients. These are easy to lack in people's daily food today.

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Popular ways to eat brown sugar

Brown sugar is a kind of sugar with the highest nutritional value, which benefits from its simple processing method and rich nutrition. In the processing of brown sugar, there are also many convenient ways for people to carry. For example, some are processed into small pieces by it and can be dissolved in hot water.

There are also some kinds of brown sugar, such as adding some rose petals, medlar and jujube to the processing of brown sugar, which not only looks good, but also tastes like rose petals. These methods can make more people like them.

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