Even though brown sugar has many health benefits, it is still sugar in essence, and it still plays a role in seasoning when making ingredients. 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.
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. Before 1970s and 1980s, brown sugar was very popular in ordinary families. With the improvement of living standards, people seldom eat brown sugar now. Medical experts remind people that brown sugar has a unique nourishing and health care function, especially for women.
The humble traditional brown sugar is accompanied by the promotion of health concept! Get rid of the old image of the past and become a popular hot commodity in the market. The main reason is that it is very helpful to health. Traditional 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.
Brown sugar contains a kind of "molasses", which has a powerful 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, yellow sugar, white sugar and rock sugar were all extracted in the same way at first. They become different colors and forms of sugar because of the different degrees of final refining and decoloration. The higher the degree of refinement, the whiter the color and the higher the purity, but the sweetness will not increase because of the high purity. Among these sugars, brown sugar and yellow sugar have higher sweetness. Brown sugar is rich in substances, besides sweetness, it also has a unique special flavor, which is suitable for simple cooking, so as not to make the taste too complicated and self-defeating. For example, it is used to make red bean soup, brown sugar cake, black tea and coffee, and its sweetness is mellow and unique. Yellow sugar is in the middle of flavor and sweetness, and is most commonly used to make ordinary dishes. Sugar and rock candy have low sweetness, but because of their high sweetness and purity, they can be used to make cakes or pastries, without affecting the original flavor of other materials, and have the effect of making pastries fluffy.