1, production process

Rock candy can only be made by refining sucrose for many times, removing impurities, concentrating and crystallizing, and most of the rock candy is bleached by sulfur dioxide, so the color is white and crystal clear. However, yellow sugar is made from sucrose through primary extraction, without decoloration.

2. Edible effect

The edible effect is one of the differences between rock candy and yellow rock candy, because the colors of the two are quite different. When people cook sweet and sour pork ribs, braised pork and other dishes, it is more suitable to use yellow rock candy for coloring. White rock sugar is more suitable to be added to the drink for seasoning, which can make the drink more sweet.

3. Nutritional components

Because the yellow rock candy has gone through fewer production procedures and has not been decolored, most of the natural nutrients in sugarcane have been preserved, and yellow rock candy will be sweeter than rock candy. Therefore, from the perspective of nutritional components, yellow rock sugar will be more nutritious than rock sugar.

Rock sugar:

Rock sugar is an ice-like crystal made by frying white sugar. It is a large-particle crystalline sugar made of sucrose and protein raw material formula, which is redissolved, crystallized and recrystallized. There are two kinds of single crystals and polycrystals, which are transparent or translucent.

Because its crystal is like ice, it is named rock sugar, also called "ice grain". Naturally occurring rock candy is white, yellowish, light gray and other colors. In addition, there are various kinds of colored rock candy added with food pigments on the market (mainly used for export).