White vinegar boiled rock sugar helps to enhance the function of the liver, and can inhibit staphylococcus and E. coli in the intestinal tract. For women, it can eliminate pigmentation and inhibit the formation of peroxides in the aging process of the human body, thus playing a role in beauty and skin care. White vinegar in rock sugar is a popular folk health drink, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, clearing heat and removing fire, and transforming phlegm, so the two are not the same.

Icing sugar is sugar decoction made of ice-like crystals, is made of sucrose plus protein raw material formulations, by re-soluble, crystallization process after recrystallization of large particles of crystalline sugar, monocrystalline and polycrystalline two kinds of transparent or semi-transparent. Because of its crystallization, such as ice, so the name rock candy, also called "ice grain". Naturally occurring rock candy is white, yellowish, light gray and other colors, in addition to the market has added food coloring of various types of colored rock candy.