Relatively speaking, rock sugar has a certain health care function, and it is mainly made of sucrose.
First, the efficacy and role of rock sugar
Rock candy is sweet and flat, and it belongs to spleen and lung meridians. Rock sugar can tonify the middle energizer, nourish the stomach, quench thirst and resolve phlegm. Indications: dry lung cough, dry cough without phlegm, expectoration with blood. Can be used for treating cough and asthma, infantile malaria, dysentery, aphtha and toothache caused by lung dryness, lung deficiency and wind-cold fatigue.
It is generally believed that rock sugar is the most nourishing. Therefore, when taking tonics and tonics, rock sugar is better than soft sugar. For example, when cooking all kinds of cream tonics, white fungus and longan soup, rock sugar is often used to take its nourishing effect.
Second, the difference between rock sugar and white sugar
In fact, many sugars are mainly composed of sucrose, such as rock sugar and brown sugar.
Brown sugar is a mixture of sucrose and molasses, and white sugar is made of brown sugar through several processes such as washing, centrifugation, honey separation and color peeling.
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Rock sugar is formed by recrystallization of white sugar under certain conditions. Their chemical composition is sucrose.
If brown sugar is stored for a long time, molasses will be oxidized, making the color darker and sour, so brown sugar can no longer be eaten.
Anyone who has eaten rock sugar knows that the sweetness of rock sugar is not as sweet as sugar, and the moisturizing effect is better.
In terms of efficacy, moderate consumption of white sugar is helpful to improve the body's absorption of calcium; But too much will hinder the absorption of calcium. 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.
Although there are many impurities in brown sugar, its nutrients are well preserved. It has the effects of invigorating qi, relieving middle warmer, helping spleen to promote digestion, enriching blood and removing blood stasis, and also has the effects of dispelling cold and relieving pain. Old people can also quench their thirst by containing rock sugar.
From the cooking point of view, white sugar is often used as seasoning in cooking, and it is also suitable for adding coffee or black tea to flavor. Rock sugar is sweet, and it is mostly used to make roasted dishes and soups, such as rock sugar tremella and rock sugar elbow.
Rock sugar can not only make dishes have special flavor, but also increase the luster of dishes. Brown sugar is often added to baked cakes, puddings, etc. , can add color and fragrance.
How to choose rock sugar
When choosing a good rock candy, you must have a good eye and look at its appearance carefully.
Generally speaking, the crystal sugar with uniform particles, light yellow or clear color, translucency, crystal luster and no obvious impurities is of good quality.
Of course, the whiter the color, the better, because the whiter the craft, the more exquisite it is not the best rock sugar. Pale yellow rock crystal tower ice is often more natural.
Poor quality rock candy is often yellow and dark. This is caused by rock sugar being wet.
In addition, when buying rock candy, you should also smell it to avoid selling products with peculiar smell.
skill
You can put large pieces of rock sugar in a container, then put it in a microwave oven for 20-30 times, and then take it out and break it into small pieces easily by hand.
This way, the rock sugar will be put into the bag after it is cooled, which will be very convenient to use in the future.