1, the appearance of different: the volume of ginger than the volume of ginger, ginger is irregular in shape; ginger skin smooth, brown, the shape of the round and pointed, easy to break.

2, the use of different methods: ginger is mostly used in the production of spices, and the preparation of marinade; ginger is used in a wider range, can be used as a stir-fry seasoning, can also be used to make gingerbread.

Sand ginger although the name with "ginger", but in fact is not ginger, just eat with ginger a little spicy flavor, so people called sand ginger. Sand ginger and ginger belong to the ginger family, but the role in cooking and therapeutic effects are very different.

1, the role of different -

Ginger taste spicy, it can be its own spicy flavor and special aroma penetrate into the dishes, so that it is fresh and tasty, taste fragrant. Because of its taste spicy, only the food odor dissipation, and not mix the food into spicy, suitable for meat and fish dishes of the corrective products, also used in cakes and sweets production, such as gingerbread, ginger candy, etc..

Sand ginger also has a pungent flavor, but lighter than ginger, and sand ginger can not only deodorize, but also to enhance the role of freshness and aroma, which is ginger does not have the characteristics. Ginger is especially suitable for all kinds of meat ingredients cooking, can also be used for the preparation of marinade, or as "five spices" ingredients.

2, the efficacy of different --

Ginger taste pungent, warm, into the spleen, stomach, lung meridian, with sweating, warm stop vomiting, warming the lungs to stop coughing, detoxification of the efficacy of the treatment of external wind-cold, gastric cold, vomiting, wind-cold cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea, fish and crab poison and other diseases.

Shagang is pungent, warm, and enters the stomach meridian; it has the efficacy of warming the middle and dispersing cold, appetizing and eliminating food, regulating qi and relieving pain; it is suitable for people with cold stomach and abdominal cold pain, intestinal tinnitus and diarrhea, and it is not fragrant with the grain and does not think of food or stop eating and not being able to eat.