They are all made from the juice of sugar beets and sugar cane. Brown sugar is the coarsest form of sugar extracted directly from the plant. White sugar is refined and processed from brown sugar, in the refining process, remove the color and impurities, become white and pure, but at the same time will also discard some of the rich nutrients in brown sugar. Rock sugar is sugar as raw material, by adding water to dissolve, remove impurities, clear juice, evaporation, concentration, cooling crystallization made, divided into polycrystalline rock sugar and single crystal rock sugar.
From a nutritional point of view, both white sugar and rock sugar, the main ingredient is sucrose, which can provide heat to the body. But from the therapeutic point of view, they have different therapeutic effects. Brown sugar is warm, both blood, but also blood, women's menstrual cramps, postpartum conditioning with brown sugar. External wind chill can also drink some brown sugar ginger water. Sugar is flat, help the spleen, moisten the lungs, and produce fluids, long for the spleen and qi, can be used for general weakness of the spleen and stomach, but eat more easy to produce phlegm. Rock sugar is cool in nature, entering the lung and spleen meridians, tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, nourishing the yin and moistening the lungs, relieving coughs and resolving phlegm, and is therefore widely used in high-grade tonic and health care products. Elderly people can also alleviate dry mouth by containing crystalized sugar.
From a culinary point of view, white sugar is often used to flavor dishes and is also suitable for adding flavor to coffee or black tea. Rock sugar is sweet, mostly used in the production of roasted, simmered dishes and soups, such as rock sugar fungus, rock sugar elbow and so on. In addition to making dishes with a special flavor, rock sugar can also increase the luster of the dishes. Brown sugar is often added to baked cakes, puddings and other snacks, can increase the color, add flavor.