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Introduction

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Brown sugar is a red crystal refined from the stems of the grassy herbaceous plant sugarcane by pressing the juice. Synonyms: sugar, red sugar, purple sugar, yellow sugar. It is rich in sugar, minerals and glycolic acid.

People often wonder whether the popular Japanese "brown sugar" is the same thing as what we traditionally call brown sugar? The answer is "yes". Traditional brown sugar and the various types of brown sugar that are popular today are sugars made with the same method. They have the same nutritional and edible effects, so they can be said to be the same thing.

The depth of color between the two is affected by the length of time the syrup is boiled. The boiling time of brown sugar is longer, and the sugar bricks made after the syrup is concentrated have an almost black appearance. As for the difference in thickness between the two, it is due to the different methods of reprocessing, so it is common to cut sugar bricks into different sizes or grind sugar powder into powder.

Whether it is brown sugar, brown sugar, white sugar, or rock sugar, the initial refining method is the same. The reason why it becomes different colors and types of sugar is that the degree of final refining and decolorization is different. The higher the degree of refining, the whiter the color and the higher the purity, but the sweetness will not increase due to the high purity.

The sweeter ones among these types of sugar are brown sugar and brown sugar. Brown sugar is rich in substances. In addition to sweetness, it also has a unique and special flavor. It is suitable for use in simple dishes, so as not to make the taste too complicated and self-defeating, such as making red bean soup, Brown sugar cake, black tea, and coffee all have mellow and unique sweetness. Brown sugar has an intermediate flavor and sweetness, so it is most commonly used for cooking general dishes. White sugar and rock sugar have lower sweetness, but because of their high purity of sweetness, they can be used to prepare drinks or make pastries without affecting the original flavor of other ingredients. They also have the effect of making pastries fluffy.

Nutritional ingredients

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Sugar cane contains a variety of essential amino acids, such as lysine, malic acid, citric acid, etc. These amino acids They are all indispensable basic substances for synthesizing human protein, supporting metabolism, and participating in human life activities. They have an absolute positive effect on promoting health. Unrefined brown sugar retains more nutrients from sugar cane and is easier to digest and absorb by the human body. Therefore, it can quickly replenish physical strength and increase vitality. Therefore, it is also called the "Chocolate of the East". It not only contains carbohydrates that can provide heat energy. It also contains various elements such as riboflavin, carotene, niacin and trace elements manganese, zinc, chromium and other elements that are indispensable for human growth and development. According to analysis, every 100 grams of brown sugar contains 90 mg of calcium, which is three times that of white sugar; and it contains 4 mg of iron, which is three times that of white sugar.

Health benefits

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With the improvement of health concepts, the humble traditional brown sugar has got rid of its old image and has become one of the most popular products on the market. The main reason for its popularity is that it is very helpful to the health of the body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar has the effects of replenishing qi and nourishing blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, dispersing wind and cold, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is especially suitable for It is suitable for pregnant women, children and people with anemia.

The benefit of brown sugar is that it "warms and replenishes it, warms it and relieves it, and warms it and disperses it", which is what we commonly call warming. The glucose contained in brown sugar releases energy quickly and has high absorption and utilization rate, which can quickly replenish physical strength. Children with problems such as insufficient Qi, loss of appetite, and malnutrition can drink brown sugar water in moderation on weekdays. People who suffer from abdominal pain due to cold and are prone to colds during menstruation can also use brown sugar ginger soup to dispel cold. For the elderly and frail, especially those who have just recovered from a serious illness, brown sugar also has an excellent tonic effect. For the elderly, eating some brown sugar in moderation can dissipate blood stasis, activate blood circulation, promote bowel movement, relieve liver disease and improve eyesight.

Beauty effects

The reason why brown sugar is so red in Japan is not only because of its health-preserving effects, but also because brown sugar contains a "molasses" ingredient, which has a powerful detoxifying effect. Export excess melanin from the dermis and out of the body through lymphoid tissue. In addition, it also contains carotene, riboflavin, niacin, amino acids, glucose and other ingredients, which have strong antioxidant and repair effects on cells, allowing subcutaneous cells to grow rapidly after eliminating melanin, and more thoroughly Achieve the effect of preventing melanin production and continuous whitening. These beauty and health-preserving effects have made brown sugar a new favorite among consumers who pursue beauty and health and are eager to buy it.

Brown sugar is rich in minerals, vitamins, and amino acids. It not only makes the skin smooth and attractive, but also promotes the metabolism of sun-exposed skin. Put 300 grams of brown sugar into a pot, add a small amount of mineral water, simmer over low heat until it becomes a black paste, put it into a bottle after it cools, apply it on your face, and wash it off with warm water after 5 to 10 minutes. Of course, brown sugar can not only exert its effect alone,

it can also be combined with other substances:

Red dates and fungus soup: 50 grams of black fungus, 10 red dates, 100 grams of brown sugar, decoction, 2 times a day. Take it regularly to effectively remove dark circles.

Red dates and chrysanthemum porridge: Put 50 grams of red dates, 100 grams of black rice, and 15 grams of chrysanthemums into a pot and add an appropriate amount of water to cook the porridge. When the porridge is cooked until thick, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar. This recipe has the effects of strengthening the spleen and blood, clearing the liver and improving eyesight. Regular consumption can make the facial complexion rosy, play a role in health care, disease prevention, and beauty.

Ginger and brown sugar tea: 15 grams of ginger and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Brewing it with boiling water instead of tea can effectively relieve the pain of dysmenorrhea in women with cold and blood stasis type.

Brown sugar medicinal bean soup: 30 grams of medicinal adzuki beans, 12 grams of salvia, an appropriate amount of brown sugar, decoct in water to extract the juice, add brown sugar, eat the beans and drink the soup for a period of time to moisturize the skin.

Bird's nest and candied dates soup: 25 grams of bird's nest, 15 grams of candied dates, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Soak the bird's nest in water to remove impurities, then put it into a pot with the candied dates (removed pits), add an appropriate amount of water, and cook until the candied dates are thoroughly cooked. Add brown sugar and serve. This recipe has the effect of nourishing the skin and removing wrinkles, making the skin shiny and moisturized.

Whitening facial mask: 30 grams of brown sugar, appropriate amount of fresh milk (milk powder). Melt the brown sugar with hot water, add fresh milk or milk powder and stir thoroughly. Apply to the face until it does not flow. Rinse with clean water after 30 minutes. Once a day for about 3 months can significantly reduce the melanin that causes skin darkness.

Moisturizing tea: 2 grams of green tea, 30 grams of brown sugar. After brewing in boiling water, cover it for 5 minutes before drinking. One dose per day will make the skin clean and translucent, and rough skin will regain its luster.

Moisturizing facial mask: Tea contains many nutrients. People who drink tea regularly will have moist and beautiful skin. Add two tablespoons each of black tea and brown sugar to a pot and fry in water. Use flour as a base and mix well to apply on the face. Wipe the face with a wet towel after 15 minutes. Apply once a month. After a month, the face will be moisturized and fair.

Jujube tea: 10 red dates, boiled in water, add brown sugar, mix with black tea water and take it once. It can replenish qi and blood, strengthen the spleen and stomach. It is especially suitable for infants, young children and middle-aged and elderly people.

Strong tea and brown sugar drink: appropriate amounts of tea and brown sugar. Make a bowl of strong tea, remove the residue, dissolve the brown sugar and drink. Once a day. Functions: clear away heat and regulate menstruation. It mainly treats heavy menstruation in advance.

Hawthorn brown sugar drink: 50 grams of raw hawthorn meat, 40 grams of brown sugar. Decoct hawthorn in water to remove residue, add brown sugar and drink hot. If you are not pregnant, take it several times to relieve menstrual bleeding. It functions to activate blood circulation and regulate menstruation, and is mainly used to treat women's menstrual disorders.

Using brown sugar for cooking

Even though brown sugar has many health-preserving benefits, it is still sugar in essence, and it still plays the role of seasoning when making dishes. Brown sugar has high sweetness, unique flavor and the ability to increase color. It is very suitable for making dark tea soups or pastries such as ginger soup and brown sugar cakes. It not only increases the aroma and makes the color of the dishes more rosy and attractive, but also can be used at the same time. Add nutrition and health.

Many families who pay attention to health have begun to use brown sugar to replace brown sugar or white sugar in general cooking. When using the substitution, be careful not to completely replace the amount of white sugar or brown sugar for seasoning, because white sugar and brown sugar The sweetness is lower than that of brown sugar. If you add the same amount of brown sugar, the taste will be too sweet and the color of the dish will be too dark. You should reduce the amount appropriately before adding the dish.

Healthy brown sugar water

It is easier to absorb the nutrients by boiling brown sugar into brown sugar water than eating it directly, and it is more effective in replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and warming the stomach. Efficacy, brown sugar water is the most common and practical brown sugar health drink in the early days. Pregnant women lose a lot of blood after childbirth and consume a lot of physical strength and energy. Drinking some brown sugar water during the 7 to 10 days after delivery can replenish energy and increase blood volume, which is beneficial to the recovery of postpartum physical strength, and has a positive effect on postpartum uterine contraction, recovery, and lochia. It also has a significant promotion effect on the discharge of breast milk and milk secretion.

Brown sugar water is also helpful for women’s smooth menstruation. It can warm the body, increase energy, activate qi and blood, speed up blood circulation, and make menstruation smoother. If you feel low energy and poor complexion after menstruation, you can drink a cup of brown sugar water with a concentration of about 20% before lunch every day. If the symptoms of discomfort are severe, you can drink another cup before dinner, and it can be effectively improved after one week.

In addition to drinking, brown sugar water can also be used for external application. It also has the effect of detoxification and moisturizing. Most of the older generation have experienced children being stung by bees, and the wounds are red, swollen and painful. At this time, parents will take a small amount of brown sugar water with a higher concentration and apply it on the red and swollen area. After a while, the pain will be relieved and the redness and swelling will gradually subside. In autumn and winter, when the skin is itchy due to cold and dryness, you can also use brown sugar water to scrub and clean it, which can effectively relieve the dry and itchy feeling.

Brown sugar water can also be boiled with white fungus, wolfberry, red dates or red beans, which has diuretic and diuretic effects. During menstruation, it can help discharge uterine waste and relieve symptoms of abdominal distension and waist tightness; brown sugar can be added with longan, Boiled in ginger juice, it has the effect of nourishing the heart and blood; boiling sweet potatoes, brown sugar, and ginger juice together not only has health-preserving effects, but also makes a unique snack.

Eating brown sugar can delay aging

The various special effects of brown sugar are mainly due to its natural ingredients. According to 20 years of painstaking research by dermatology experts at Hong Kong Seth Skin Research Center, they have found that brown sugar contains a large number of nutrients that have unique effects on skin health and nutrition;

1. Brown sugar contains many nutrients It contains glucose, fructose and other monosaccharide and polysaccharide energy substances, which can accelerate the metabolism of skin cells and provide energy for cells.

2. Brown sugar contains folic acid, trace substances and other ingredients that can accelerate blood circulation, increase blood volume, stimulate the body's hematopoietic function, expand blood volume, and improve the supply of nutrients, oxygen, and moisture to local skin.

3. Some of the vitamins and electrolytes contained in brown sugar can balance the water-liquid metabolism of the intracellular environment by adjusting the concentration of certain substances between tissues, eliminate cellular metabolic products, and maintain the balance inside and outside the cells. Environmental cleanliness.

4. The multiple vitamins and antioxidants contained in brown sugar can resist free radicals, rebuild and protect the basic structure of cells, and maintain the normal function and metabolism of cells.

5. The amino acids, cellulose and other substances contained in brown sugar can effectively protect and restore the fiber structure and water-locking ability of the epidermis and dermis, strengthen the skin tissue structure and skin elasticity, while supplementing skin nutrition and promoting Cell regeneration.

6. Certain natural acids and pigment-regulating substances contained in brown sugar can effectively regulate various pigment metabolism processes, balance the amount of pigment secretion and pigment distribution in the skin, and reduce the abnormal accumulation of local pigments.

7. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that women’s bodies after childbirth are stagnant and their eight meridians are empty, often causing abdominal pain. For those with partial stasis, doctors often prescribe Shenghua Decoction, Shixiao Powder or Jinlingzi Powder, and instruct them to mix it with brown sugar after decoction. The purpose is to use brown sugar to "remove silt" or "remove lochia" to achieve pain relief. Purpose. "A woman cannot live without sugar for a hundred days" refers to brown sugar. It is said that there was a young woman who was thin and thin due to long-term illness.

After she became pregnant, she was worried that she would not be able to bear it, so she used traditional Chinese dietary therapy methods to design "appropriate foods" that could warm and replenish deficiency and coldness: she was fed glutinous rice with wine, eggs, and millet porridge with brown sugar and sesame. Not only did she give birth to a healthy baby, her body was stronger and healthier than before.

8. According to traditional Chinese medicine nutrition, brown sugar, which is warm in nature, plays the role of nourishing blood by "warming and replenishing it, warming it and clearing it, and warming it and dispersing it". Relatively speaking, although white sugar is sweet in taste, it is white in color and flat in nature, so its blood-enriching effect is far less than that of brown sugar. Therefore, families always keep brown sugar and eat it. You should pay attention to adding some brown sugar to your diet at ordinary times, which can maintain normal metabolic function and delay aging.

Healthy Brown Sugar

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Introduction to Healthy Brown Sugar

On the basis of traditional brown sugar, some health benefits are added food, thus becoming brown sugar with health-care properties, which is a new trend in the development of brown sugar. This type of product first appeared in Japan. It is more common to add ginseng, Panax notoginseng and other Chinese herbal medicines. Through reasonable compatibility with brown sugar, the health effects of brown sugar are increased, becoming a new generation of health-care brown sugar. In recent years, health brown sugar craze has also emerged in the domestic market. However, due to my country's strict legal restrictions on the food industry, ordinary Chinese herbal medicines are not allowed to be added to food. They can only be added to medicinal and food homologous items issued by the Ministry of Health. It can be used to add content specified in the list of food items, which has affected the development of health brown sugar in my country to a certain extent.

Variety of health-care brown sugar

At present, the more common varieties of health-care brown sugar on the market mainly include "ginger juice brown sugar" (mainly adding ginger (ginger powder, ginger juice, sometimes also appropriately mixed with green onion) )), "Motherwort brown sugar" (mainly added with red dates and pepper (motherwort is a Chinese herbal medicine, and is not allowed to be added to food according to national regulations, so motherwort does not contain motherwort ingredients)) "" "Maternity brown sugar" (mainly added with Donkey-hide gelatin, pepper), "donkey-hide gelatin brown sugar" (mainly added with donkey-hide gelatin), "rose brown sugar" (mainly added with rose ingredients), etc.

Production of health-care brown sugar

As a new type of brown sugar, domestic production companies mainly use two production processes (1) Modern industrial production method one: using brown sugar and auxiliary materials (different Healthy brown sugar will add different auxiliary materials, such as ginger powder, scallion powder, pepper powder, jujube powder, donkey hide gelatin powder, rose powder, etc.) and physically mixed in a certain proportion (since it has not been processed at high temperatures, it is best when eaten The effect will be better if you boil it in a pot again). Due to the simple production method and small equipment investment, most manufacturers on the market currently adopt this production method; (2) Modern industrial production method two: directly during the brown sugar cooking process It is made by adding auxiliary materials and boiling it with brown sugar at high temperature (generally up to about 125 degrees). Due to the complex process and high equipment investment of this method, there are only a few domestic companies (such as Shanghai Pu Shilian (brand It is produced in this way for "Hushengtang")).

Regulations on health-care brown sugar

In order to standardize the quality standards of health-care brown sugar, ensure consumers' eating hygiene, stabilize and improve the overall quality of health-care brown sugar products, our country will formulate "health-care brown sugar" for the first time ” industry standard. The standard is organized and compiled by the National Sugarcane Sugar Industry Standardization Center and will fill the gap in domestic functional nutritional sugars.

This standard will put forward unified quality requirements for the sensory indicators, physical and chemical indicators and hygienic indicators of various "health brown sugar" products sold on the market. The standard development work is scheduled to be completed in 2009.

Suitable for the crowd

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Brown sugar is unrefined jaggery, which retains more vitamins and minerals. It is generally believed that brown sugar is suitable for women with irregular menstruation and those who have just given birth. In fact, brown sugar is more suitable for the elderly, especially those who are frail and recovering from serious illness.

Brown sugar usually refers to finished sugar cane with honey. It generally refers to the honey-containing sugar formed by squeezing sugar cane juice, simple processing, and concentration.

Brown sugar is divided into brown sugar, brown sugar powder, bowl sugar, etc. according to different crystallized particles. Because they are not highly refined, they retain almost all the ingredients in cane juice. In addition to having the function of sugar, they also contain vitamins and trace elements, such as Iron, zinc, manganese, chromium, etc. have much higher nutritional content than white sugar.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar is warm in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the spleen. It has the functions of replenishing qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, relieving pain, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The elderly's intake of various trace elements and vitamins gradually decreases, and they should pay attention to supplementing them in their diet to maintain normal metabolic functions and delay aging. According to records, 1,000 grams of brown sugar contains 900 mg of calcium and 100 mg of iron. Calcium and iron are essential minerals and trace elements for the human body. An expert used an atomic fluorescence

spectrometer to measure and found that brown sugar contains very rich trace elements, some of which can strongly stimulate the body's hematopoietic function. Therefore, it seems very reasonable that people in the past often used brown sugar to nourish the body of postpartum women

Each 100 grams of brown sugar contains 90 mg of calcium, 4 mg of iron, and a small amount of riboflavin and carotene. Japanese researchers also extracted a polysaccharide called "molasses" from brown sugar. Experiments have proven that it has strong antioxidant effects and has a significant effect on anti-aging.

When the elderly eat sweets, they should choose brown sugar more often. Elderly people in Okinawa Prefecture, a famous longevity county in Japan and the birthplace of brown sugar, have the habit of drinking a cup of brown sugar water every day.

Farmer Proverbs

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Spring

"The Waking of Insects has not yet arrived, and the thunder from the sky will strike, and the sugar stalks will draw the sword." "; "The awakening of the Insects brings thunder and lightning, and the sugar stalks bloom to raise sugar plants (sugar seedlings)."

"Grain Rain cuts off the frost, making it easy to sell (buy) sugar-stem seedlings."

“To plant sugar, you need to cultivate it first, both shallowly and deeply.” Note: This is the technical requirement of sugar farmers for planting sugar cane. The general idea is: to plant sugar cane seedlings, first dig a hole as big as the mouth of a bowl. Digging the hole is also called reclamation; it should be shallow, that is, the sugar seedlings should not be buried too thickly in the soil. , to facilitate the division of sugar seedlings (buds); to be deep, that is, the sugar seedlings should be planted into a bowl-shaped hole to avoid fertilizer and water loss during fertilization.

Summer

“In the summer solstice, all the wheat is harvested, and the fields of sugar stalks are busy being cultivated.” Note: After the wheat harvest, you must weed and fertilize the sugar seedlings as soon as possible.

“The sugar seedlings will grow buds when they are in mold. Weeds will grow faster than the sugar. If weeding is not done, the sword will not be thick. Weeding in the ground is afraid of fat thorns.” I'm afraid of fat thorns."

“The sun is fierce during the minor heat and the big heat, and Tuo Tang is so busy that he is dripping with sweat. His face is scratched by the sugar leaves, and the sweat is pickling red in the garden. It is itchy and the pain is unbearable.”; “In the field of Tuo Tang, High temperatures can easily make people sick and make them sick for three days. Who knows the hard work of sugar farmers?"

“The land of sugar stems is like a big manure vat, you can use as much sugar as you want”, “Eat white beans on sugar stems, save money on brown sugar”, “Use a handful for farming inside, and a load for farming outside. ".

Autumn

"There is no need to prepare sugar stalks in autumn, as long as the mud is wet and water flows", "In autumn drought, sugar stalks are as watery as oil, so if you want sugar stalks, you will have to sweat profusely." ", "After autumn, when the weather is hot and sunny, I pedal the river cart to inject sugar stalks, and my feet are swollen and it is difficult to walk, in order to have a harvest of sugar stalks."

"After July and a half, the sugar stems are sweet for two and a half quarters", "In the drizzle of August, the sugar stems are coming day and night."

"Save sugar seeds before and after cold dew, and leave seeds red after frost."

Winter

"There is sugar but no sugar, sugar cane is made at the beginning of winter", "Sugar stalks begin to be harvested at the beginning of winter, sugar farmers are freezing and falling snow is shaking in the sugar shop", "Chibo sugar stalks The worst thing about freezing is that the frozen sugar stems are “cut with an axe”; Note: The quality of brown sugar from frozen sugar stems is very poor. “Axe-cut” is a kind of brown sugar that cannot be made into fine yellow color. It is dark, tough and has a bitter taste. of inferior quality candy.

“If you cut it open with an axe, it will stick to your mouth, and your teeth will fall off; fine sugar will crawl when piled on the table, but it will be fragrant and sweet in your mouth, and it will close without your teeth.” Note: Sugar farmers compare the good and bad of brown sugar.

"Growing sugar can be profitable and cost-effective, and you will forget all the hard work you have done for a year." Note: One calculation is made after sugar farmers sell sugar.

The economic benefits are better than growing grain. At this time, sugar farmers will forget about the hard work of growing sugar for a year. Sugar can be fried in sugar water, and the sugar residue is good firewood for peasant women to cook. Therefore, the peasant woman said: planting sugar is like planting treasure.

"Peanuts and brown sugar are better than a married couple." Note: Sugar farmers use peanuts and brown sugar to eat together. It tastes delicious and is likened to a newlywed couple on their honeymoon.

Notes

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Although it is good for pregnant women to eat brown sugar, it must be in moderation. Ancient Chinese medical scientists have long understood this. . For example, in the book "Compendium of Materia Medica", brown sugar is called granulated sugar, and it is analyzed: "Granulated sugar is warm in nature and different from slurry, so it is not suitable to eat too much..." Pregnant women exercise less, and excess sugar is easily converted into fat, leading to obesity. .

Not all elderly people are suitable for eating brown sugar. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people with yin deficiency and internal heat, indigestion and diabetes should not eat brown sugar. In addition, it is not advisable to use brown sugar water when taking medicine.

It is best to use glassware when storing brown sugar, seal it and store it in a cool place!