Although they are all extracted from sugarcane, their functions are different due to different production processes and different components.
? Ice? sugar
Rock sugar is an ice-like crystal formed by frying white sugar. It is a large crystalline sugar obtained by dissolving and cleaning sucrose and protein, which is transparent or translucent.
Because its crystal is like ice, it is named rock sugar.
It was produced in the Han Dynasty in China, and rock sugar has a refreshing but not greasy sweetness, which can be used as seasoning accessories for various nourishing foods.
Chinese medicine believes that rock sugar is flat and sweet, belonging to the spleen and stomach. It has the effects of invigorating middle energizer, regulating stomach and moistening lung, and can be used for treating diseases such as insufficient middle energizer, hunger, dry mouth and cigarette dryness.
White? Shatang
Sugar is sweet and flat, belonging to the spleen and stomach. Its oral administration has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness, and is suitable for dry mouth and chronic cough.
White sugar for external use also has the nutritional function of cooling and moistening dryness. For example, when the mouth and tongue are swollen or eroded, external use of white sugar is beneficial to wound healing.
Red? sugar
The refining degree of brown sugar is not high, and it contains almost all the ingredients in sugarcane juice, so its nutritional value is relatively high.
Brown sugar is sweet in taste and warm in nature, and belongs to spleen, stomach and liver meridians. It has the effects of invigorating spleen, warming stomach and relieving pain, and is suitable for patients with stomachache and abdominal pain due to weakness of spleen and stomach.
Compared with white sugar, brown sugar can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis at the same time, which is why it is suggested that women with menstrual cold and abdominal pain drink brown sugar water instead of white sugar water.
? Yellow? sugar
Yellow sugar is strictly a kind of brown sugar.
In the process of boiling brown sugar, when the heat is small and the color is light, it will turn pale yellow or cyan to make yellow sugar.
The efficacy and taboos of yellow sugar are similar to those of brown sugar, and its temperature and humidity should be weaker than that of brown sugar.
brown sugar
The production technology of brown sugar is more complicated than that of brown sugar, and the production temperature is also higher than that of brown sugar, which has a deeper color and a unique burnt flavor.
The effect of brown sugar is similar to that of brown sugar, but it has stronger warming power, so besides the effect of brown sugar, it can also warm meridians.
Nowadays, brown sugar ginger tea is popular in the market, which is to mix ginger with brown sugar to enhance its warming and tonic effect, and is suitable for people with cold syndrome and pain.
Mai? Bud. sugar
Maltose is special. Also called maltose. Generally, corn, wheat, barley, millet (millet) or corn (corn) are used as raw materials, which are made by fermentation and saccharification, and are traditional Chinese medicines with the same origin of medicine and food.
Maltose is sweet and warm, and enters spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, benefiting qi, relieving pain, promoting salivation, moistening dryness, moistening lung and relieving cough.
People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are suitable for eating caramel.
Oral administration of maltose has the effect of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi. Can be taken orally, each time 15~20g, before meals.
However, eating caramel is also taboo. Generally speaking, people with damp-heat stagnation, abdominal distension and vomiting, phlegm-heat cough and infantile malnutrition are not suitable for eating.
Summary:
Brown sugar, brown sugar and yellow sugar all have the effect of warming the spleen and stomach, and the intensity of warming in the middle decreases in turn.
White sugar and rock sugar can replenish the spleen and stomach, and rock sugar can also help replenish stomach yin, which is more suitable for people with yin deficiency.
Maltose is warm and tonic, but its texture is sticky, which is not suitable for people who accumulate food.