So what's the difference between these two kinds of rock candy? I will give you a detailed introduction today.
1. Yellow rock sugar
Yellow rock candy belongs to the primary processed products, also known as old rock candy and earth rock candy, which are mostly processed from sugarcane sugar. Different from white rock candy, yellow rock candy has not been refined by fine processing and bleaching, so the color still retains the color of sucrose itself, and there are more impurities than white rock candy, which is rich in nutrition.
Yellow rock sugar is uneven in color and different in size, so it is more troublesome to break it before cooking.
The purity and sweetness of yellow rock candy are low, and the stew will not be too sweet. The nutrition of yellow rock candy is higher than that of white rock candy, so yellow rock candy is more suitable for stewing some soups with low sweetness requirements.
2. White rock sugar
White rock sugar is an ice-like crystal formed by frying white sugar. It is made of sucrose and protein through redissolution, cleaning and recrystallization.
White rock sugar is divided into single crystal and polycrystalline, and its appearance is transparent or translucent. When making white rock sugar, its process is much more than yellow rock sugar.