From the appearance, red granulated sugar has larger crystals, obvious crystal surface, and the color has reddish-brown, reddish-red, greenish-brown, yellowish-brown and so on, whereas brown sugar looks rougher on the outside because of the more impurities it contains.
The production process, brown sugar generally refers to sugar cane farmers themselves with the local production processed sugar. Its formula is to put a certain amount of lime in the processing, but also to control the fire, it belongs to the natural food, also called board sugar or red board sugar. While the red sugar is also produced from cane sugar, but belongs to the mechanism without washing honey sugar, most of them are produced by the regular manufacturers, clean and hygienic degree of brown sugar will be much higher.
Moisture content, the traditional brown sugar has a high water content, and therefore a shorter shelf life, room temperature is generally only put three months. And most of the red sugar is from the regular manufacturers, the water content has strict control, the general handmade brown sugar with low water content, so the shelf life is also longer.
Red sugar and brown sugar in the efficacy of the difference
Red sugar and brown sugar is only different in the production method, the basic composition and efficacy is generally the same,
They are both from the sugar cane in the refining of the sugarcane, are retained in the sugarcane nutrients, sugarcane contains a variety of essential amino acids, which are synthesized human proteins, to promote metabolism
Effects of brown sugar and brown sugar
Brown sugar and brown sugar is a very good for women's food, has been used as a female blood holy, often drink can give women a good look. Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar is warm and sweet in nature, and enters the spleen meridian, which has the effect of benefiting the qi, slowing down the middle, transforming food, tonifying the blood and breaking the silt, so what are the effects of brown sugar and brown sugar?
1, treatment of menstrual cramps: menstrual cramps for women, red sugar is the best medicine for blood. If the menstrual cramps are caused by cold, drinking a cup of warm brown sugar water can quickly relieve the pain.
2, detoxification: some researchers have found that the unique "molasses" in the red sugar has a strong antioxidant function, and can accelerate the body's metabolism, there is a good detoxification effect.