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6?1 Introduction 6?1 Nutritional Composition 6?1 Health Care Benefits 6?1 Suitable for the crowd 6?1 PrecautionsIntroduction
Brown sugar is a ruddy-colored crystalline substance made from the juice of the stalk of the graminaceous herb cane, which is squeezed. Crystals. Synonyms: sugar, red sugar, purple sugar, yellow sugar. It is rich in sugar, minerals and glycolic acid,
Often people wonder whether the popular Japanese "brown sugar" and our traditional brown sugar are the same thing. The answer is "yes". Both traditional brown sugar and the popular brown sugar are made in the same way, with the same nutritional and dietary benefits, so they are the same thing.
The depth of color between the two is affected by the length of time the syrup is boiled, brown sugar is boiled for a longer period of time, the syrup is concentrated to make the sugar bricks show a nearly black appearance. As for the difference between the two, it is due to the different ways of reprocessing, so it is common to see sugar bricks cut into different sizes or ground into powdered sugar.
Whether it's brown sugar, yellow sugar, white sugar, or rock sugar, the initial refining process is the same, and the reason why it becomes different colors and shapes of sugar is because of the different degrees of refining and decoloration at the end. The higher the degree of refinement, the whiter the color and the higher the purity, but the sweetness does not increase because of the higher purity.
The sweeter of these sugars are brown sugar and yellow sugar. Brown sugar is rich in substances, in addition to sweetness, but also has a unique special flavor, suitable for use in simple cooking methods, so as not to make the flavor is too complex and clumsy, such as used to make red bean soup, brown sugar cake, black tea, coffee, sweet taste are mellow unique. Yellow sugar has the middle ground in terms of flavor and sweetness, so it is most commonly used for general dishes. White sugar and rock sugar are less sweet, but because of their high purity of sweetness, they can be used to make beverages or desserts without interfering with the original flavor of the other ingredients, and they have the effect of fluffing up the texture of pastries.
Nutritional Composition
Sugar cane contains a variety of essential amino acids, such as lysine, malic acid, citric acid, etc. These amino acids are indispensable to the synthesis of human proteins, support metabolism, and participate in the human body's vital activities, which has an absolutely positive effect on promoting health. Unrefined brown sugar retains more nutrients from sugar cane and is more easily digested and absorbed by the human body, so it can quickly replenish physical strength and increase vitality, so it is also known as the "chocolate of the East", which not only contains carbohydrates that can provide calories, but also contains riboflavin, carotenoids, niacin, and trace elements, such as manganese, zinc, chromium, and other elements that are indispensable to the growth and development of the human body. According to analysis, every 100 grams of brown sugar contains 90 mg of calcium, three times as much as white sugar; 4 mg of iron, three times as much as white sugar.
Health effects
The unassuming traditional brown sugar with the promotion of health concepts, get rid of the old image of the past to become popular in the market, the most important reason is that it has a great deal of help for the body's health, Chinese medicine, brown sugar has a beneficial effect on the qi, nourish the blood, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, to drive away the wind to disperse the cold, and activate the blood to eliminate the effects of siltation, especially suitable for mothers, children, and anaemic people to eat.
The benefits of brown sugar lie in the fact that it is "warm and tonic, warm and through, warm and dispersed", which is what we commonly call warm tonic. The glucose contained in brown sugar releases energy quickly and has a high absorption and utilization rate, which can quickly replenish physical strength. Children with problems such as lack of vital energy, loss of appetite and malnutrition can drink brown sugar water in moderation on weekdays. Cold abdominal pain, menstruation easy to catch a cold, can also be used brown sugar ginger soup to dispel cold. For the elderly frail, especially those who have recovered from a serious illness, brown sugar also has excellent treatment of deficiency into the role of the old man to eat some brown sugar in moderation can also dissipate blood stasis and blood circulation, bowel movement, slow liver and eyesight.
Beauty effect
The reason why brown sugar has become so popular in Japan is that, in addition to its health benefits, it contains a "molasses" ingredient, which is a powerful detoxifier that can export excessive melanin from the dermis and drain it out of the body through the lymphatic system. In addition, it also contains carotene, riboflavin, niacin, amino acids, glucose and other ingredients, which have potent antioxidant and repair effects on cells, enabling subcutaneous cells to grow rapidly after the elimination of melanin, and more thoroughly preventing the production of melanin, and continuing to whiten the effect. These beauty and health effects, so that brown sugar jumped into the pursuit of beauty and health of consumers enjoy, scrambling to buy the new favorite.
Brown sugar is rich in minerals, vitamins and amino acids, which not only makes the skin smooth and charming, but also promotes the metabolism of sun-damaged skin. Put 300 grams of brown sugar into a pot, add a small amount of mineral water, WenHuo cooked into a black paste, to be cooled into a bottle, apply face, 5 ~ 10 bells after washing with warm water. Of course, brown sugar can not only play a separate effect,
can also be combined with other substances:
Red dates and fungus soup: 50 grams of black fungus, 10 red dates, brown sugar 100 grams of decoction, 2 times a day. Regularly taken, effective in addition to the role of dark circles under the eyes.
Jujube chrysanthemum porridge: 50 grams of jujube, 100 grams of black rice, 15 grams of chrysanthemum, together with the pot with the right amount of water to cook porridge, when the porridge is cooked to the thick, put the right amount of brown sugar. This party has the spleen and blood, clear liver and eyesight effects, often eat can make the facial skin color red, play health care disease prevention, the role of beauty.
Ginger brown sugar tea: 15 grams of ginger, brown sugar. Boiling water brewing tea to drink, can effectively relieve the pain of cold blood blood type of women's menstrual cramps.
Brown sugar medicine bean soup: medicine red beans 30 grams, Salvia divinorum 12 grams, brown sugar, water decoction, add brown sugar, eat beans and drink soup, adhere to a period of time, can make skin color moisturizing.
Bird's nest honey date soup: 25 grams of bird's nest, 15 grams of honey dates, brown sugar, the bird's nest soaked in water to expel impurities, and then with honey dates (remove the core) with the pot with the right amount of water to cook until the honey dates are rotten, and then add brown sugar to eat. This formula has the effect of nourishing the face and removing wrinkles, making the skin color shiny and moist.
White mask: 30 grams of brown sugar, fresh milk (powdered milk). Melt brown sugar with hot water, add fresh milk or powdered milk after mixing thoroughly, to the extent that the face does not flow, 30 minutes after washing with water. Once a day for about 3 months can make the skin dark melanin reduce a lot.
Moisturizing tea: 2 grams of green tea, 30 grams of brown sugar, boiling water, cover for 5 minutes to drink. A daily dose will make the skin clean and translucent, and the rough skin will return to luster.
Moisturizing mask: tea contains a lot of nutrients, often drink tea, skin looks moist and nice. The black tea and brown sugar two tablespoons each, add water to decoction, to flour base mixing face, 15 minutes after the use of a wet towel to wipe the face, monthly coated once a month, after a month to make the face moisturized and fair.
Date tea: 10 jujube, add water to cook, put brown sugar, blended into the black tea water, once served, there is a tonic blood, spleen and stomach effect. Especially suitable for infants and young children and middle-aged and elderly people to take.
Strong tea brown sugar drink: tea, brown sugar, each appropriate amount. Cook a bowl of tea, remove the slag, put brown sugar dissolved drink. Once a day. Function clear heat, regulate menstruation. The main treatment of menstruation first period of excessive amount.
Hawthorn brown sugar drink: 50 grams of raw hawthorn meat, 40 grams of brown sugar. Hawthorn water decoction dregs, punch into brown sugar, hot drink. Non-pregnant people take a few more times, menstrual blood can also come down. Function activates blood circulation and regulates menstruation, mainly treats women's menstrual disorders.
Use of brown sugar for cooking
Even though brown sugar has many health benefits, it is still sugar in nature, and it still can't be used for flavoring in cooking. Brown sugar's high sweetness, unique flavor and increased color are ideal for making ginger soup, brown sugar cake and other dark-colored tea or pastries, not only to increase the aroma and make the color of the food more red and attractive, but also to add nutrition and health at the same time.
Many families have begun to focus on health care to brown sugar instead of brown sugar or white sugar used in general cooking, alternative use should pay attention to not completely replace the amount of white or yellow sugar to flavor, because white and yellow sugar sweetness than brown sugar, if you add the same amount of brown sugar, the taste will be overly sweet, the dish will be too dark, you should reduce the amount of portion of discretionary dishes to add.
Health and wellness brown sugar water
Brown sugar is easier to absorb the nutrients in brown sugar water than eating it directly, and more with a tonic, spleen and stomach, warming the stomach, brown sugar water is the most common and practical early brown sugar health drink. Pregnant women lose a lot of blood, physical and energy consumption, in the postpartum 7 to 10 days if you drink some brown sugar water, can replenish energy, increase blood volume, is conducive to the recovery of postpartum physical strength, and the postpartum uterine contraction, recovery, discharge of bad dew and milk secretion, also has a significant role in promoting.
Brown sugar water is also helpful for women's menstruation, as it warms the body, increases energy, invigorates qi and blood, and accelerates blood circulation, so that menstruation will be smoother. After menstruation, if you feel the spirit of poor, bad color, you can be in the daily meal, drink a cup of brown sugar water concentration of about 20%. If the discomfort is more serious, you can drink a cup of it before dinner, and it will be effective for a week.
In addition to drinking, brown sugar water can also be used for external compresses, also has the effect of detoxification and moisturizing, the old generation of most people have experienced a small child was stung by a bee, the wound is red and swollen, the pain is intolerable, at this time the parents will take a small amount of high concentration of brown sugar water coated in the red and swollen place, a moment of pain can be alleviated, the redness and swelling will also gradually subside. In the fall and winter seasons, the skin is cold and dry and itchy, but also available brown sugar water scrub, clean, can effectively reduce the dry itchy feeling.
Brown sugar water can also be added to white fungus, wolfberries, jujubes or red beans to cook together, water diuretic effect, during menstruation will help the uterus waste discharge, can alleviate abdominal distension, waist tightness symptoms; black sugar with cinnamon, ginger **** cooking, there is a tonic effect of the blood; take sweet potatoes, brown sugar, ginger to cook with not only has the effect of health but also a distinctive flavor of the snacks.
Eating brown sugar can delay aging
Brown sugar all kinds of special effects, mainly due to its natural ingredients. According to the Hong Kong Saitei Skin Research Center skin medicine experts 20 years of intensive research, found that brown sugar contains a large number of nutrients on the skin's health, nutrition has a unique effect;
1. brown sugar contains glucose, fructose and other monosaccharides and polysaccharides energy substances, can accelerate the metabolism of the skin cells, to provide energy for the cells.
2. Brown sugar contains folic acid, trace substances and other components that can accelerate blood circulation, increase blood volume, stimulate the body's hematopoietic function, expand blood volume, and improve the local skin nutrition, oxygen and water supply.
3. Some of the vitamins and electrolytes contained in brown sugar can regulate the concentration of certain substances between the tissues, balance the water metabolism of the intracellular environment, exclude cellular metabolites, and maintain the cleanliness of the intracellular and external environments.
4. Various vitamins and antioxidant substances contained in brown sugar can resist free radicals, rebuild and protect the cellular infrastructure, and maintain the normal function and metabolism of cells.
5. Amino acids and cellulose contained in brown sugar can effectively protect and restore the fiber structure and water locking capacity of the epidermis and dermis, strengthen the skin tissue structure and skin elasticity, as well as replenish the skin nutrients and promote cell regeneration.
6. Certain natural acids and pigment regulating substances contained in brown sugar can effectively regulate various pigment metabolic processes, balance the amount of pigment secretion and pigment distribution within the skin, and reduce the abnormal accumulation of local pigments.
7. Chinese medicine believes that women's post-partum body more silt, and the eight veins of emptiness, each resulting in abdominal pain. Where partial silt, the doctor is often treated with biochemical soup, lost smile, or gold bells loose, and asked in the medicine decoction after the brown sugar to serve, the purpose is to use brown sugar "through the silt" or "row of bad dew" effect and achieve the purpose of pain relief. "Women can not be a hundred days without sugar", referring to brown sugar. It is said that there is a young woman, because of long-term illness, the body is weak. After she was pregnant, worried that she could not withstand, the use of traditional Chinese dietary therapy, designed to make up for the warmth of the cold "symptomatic food": give her to eat glutinous rice wine lying eggs and add brown sugar and sesame millet porridge and other food, the results were not only the birth of a healthy baby, and the body is stronger than before the birth of health.
8. According to TCM nutrition, warm brown sugar through the "warm and complementary, warm and through the warm, warm and dispersed" to play the role of blood. Comparatively speaking, white sugar is sweet, but its color is white, flat, so its effect is far less than brown sugar. Therefore, the family often prepare brown sugar and eat, usually should pay attention to add some brown sugar in the diet, can maintain normal metabolic function, delay aging.
Suitable for the crowd
Brown sugar is unrefined crude sugar, retaining more vitamins and minerals. It is generally believed that brown sugar is suitable for women with irregular menstruation and those who have just given birth. In fact, brown sugar is more suitable for the elderly, especially for those who are old and weak and have recovered from serious illnesses.
Brown sugar usually refers to finished sugarcane sugar with honey, which generally refers to sugarcane with honey formed by squeezing the juice, through simple treatment, and by concentration. Brown sugar is divided into red granulated sugar, brown sugar powder, bowl sugar, etc. according to the different crystallized particles. Because they are not highly refined, they retain almost all the ingredients in the cane juice, and in addition to the functions of sugar, they also contain vitamins and trace elements, such as iron, zinc, manganese and chromium, which have a much higher nutrient content than white granulated sugar.
The Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar is warm in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the spleen, which has the effect of benefiting the qi and tonifying the blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, easing the pain, and activating the blood to remove the stagnation. The elderly on a variety of trace elements and vitamins intake gradually decreased, usually should pay attention to supplement in the diet to maintain normal metabolic function, delay aging. According to information records, 1000 grams of brown sugar containing calcium 900 mg, iron 100 mg, and calcium, iron and essential minerals and trace elements. An expert with atomic fluorescence
Light spectrometer determination, found that brown sugar is very rich in trace elements, some of which have a strong stimulation of the body's hematopoietic function. Therefore, in the past, people often use brown sugar to post-partum women to replenish the body, it seems to be very reasonable
Each 100 grams of brown sugar containing 90 mg of calcium, containing 4 mg of iron, but also contains a small amount of riboflavin and carotene. Japanese researchers also extracted from brown sugar, a polysaccharide called "molasses", experiments have proved that it has a strong antioxidant effect, for anti-aging has a significant role.
Elderly people should choose more brown sugar when eating sugar. The elderly in Okinawa Prefecture, a famous longevity prefecture in Japan and the origin of brown sugar, have the habit of drinking a cup of brown sugar water every day.
Precautions
While it is good for women in labor to eat brown sugar, but it must be in moderation, for which ancient medical doctors in China have long been recognized. Such as "Materia Medica" book, called brown sugar for sand sugar, and analyze: "sand sugar temperature, different from the common pulp, so it is not advisable to eat more ......" maternal movement is less, the excess sugar is easy to be converted into fat, leading to obesity.
Also not all the elderly are suitable for brown sugar, Chinese medicine believes that Yin deficiency and internal heaters, indigestion and diabetic patients should not eat brown sugar. In addition, when taking medication, it is also not advisable to take brown sugar water .
In the storage of brown sugar, it is best to use glassware, sealed in a cool place!