There are two main colors of rock sugar - yellow and white.

In fact, there is not much difference in the taste of these two types of rock candy. Yellow-colored rock candy, also known as old rock candy, is boiled with the traditional clay process, so it comes out yellow in color.

But the white-colored rock candy is decolorized and made, for further processing, so because more of this process, the price of white rock candy is also expensive. But yellow icing sugar is much more natural, while white icing sugar is refined so it tastes a little sweeter.

White rock candy: processing more complex, is purified, impurities have been filtered out, looks more beautiful, are processed into small pieces, easy to eat. But in the process of purification and filtration, there are many nutrients have been removed.

Yellow rock candy: less processing, not high purity, there are some impurities, so the color looks yellow, but the natural nutrients retained inside is relatively more. Its shape is irregular, basically in the form of blocks, when using it need to cut it into small pieces.

Nutrient Comparison: Yellow rock sugar is better than white rock sugar because it retains more natural nutrients.

Sweetness comparison: white rock sugar is a little sweeter, white rock sugar is more pure.

Shape comparison: white rock candy is uniform in size, beautiful in color and shape; yellow rock candy is irregular in size, lumpy in shape and yellowish in color.

Consumption comparison: white rock sugar is mainly used for cooking color and make desserts and so on, such as braised meat, marinated meat, etc.; yellow rock sugar is generally used for nourishment and conditioning better, such as stewed rock sugar pear or directly drink water.

So white and yellow rock candy which is the best, according to the specific way of consumption to choose, both have their advantages and disadvantages, on the sweetness, white rock candy is good, on the nutrition, yellow rock candy is good.

Because of the different colors of rock candy is divided into white rock candy and yellow rock candy. Depending on the structure of the crystal shape of different single crystal rock candy and polycrystalline rock candy, whether single crystal rock candy or polycrystalline rock candy with light yellow or yellowish, are called yellow rock candy.

They are all processed with sugar as raw material and made, just a different color, white rock candy and yellow rock candy, but white rock candy more than one layer of refining, more pure. In the past, white rock candy was worth more than yellow rock candy because of the extra layer of processing, is more pure sugar. Nowadays, yellow rock sugar is popular because it contains more natural ingredients from sugar cane. If you just use it for drinking, white rock sugar is probably better in color, with some favorite flowers or dried fruits, it is delicious and nice to look at. If you use it for cooking, most inexperienced people use white rock sugar because you can see the change of sugar color when frying, and avoid the sugar color frying paste, which affects the taste.