Sweet wine, also known as rice wine, glutinous rice wine, mash, wine brew, sweet wine brew, is a rice-based food made from steamed glutinous rice mixed with sweet wine quartz (mainly root mold) fermentation. It is popular because of its unique taste, sweet flavor and relatively low alcohol content.

Sweet wine can be used to make sweet wine clear soup, sweet wine egg flower soup, sweet wine dumplings, brown sugar sweet wine milk, sweet wine eggs, sweet wine steamed bread, sweet wine stewed meat and sweet wine stewed fish and other delicacies. So, is sweet wine good for the body?

Sweet wine is easy to be digested and absorbed by the body

The main raw material for making sweet wine is glutinous rice, which is made into sweet wine through the steps of amalgamation, steaming, cooling, mixing and fermentation.

Sticky rice contains about 80 percent starch, 6.5 to 8 percent protein, 10 to 15 percent water, and fat, minerals, vitamins and other nutrients. When making sweet wine, the starch and protein are enzymatically dissolved through the fermentation of the sweet wine quartz.

The Sweet Wine Quarter used to make sweet wine contains mainly root molds and a small amount of yeast. Rhizobium produces large amounts of saccharase, protease.

Glycolytic enzyme can make the starch in glutinous rice into glucose, fructose, maltose, etc.; protease makes the protein into polypeptide or amino acid. Yeast fermentation produces carbon dioxide and ethanol. Glucose, fructose, maltose, ethanol, amino acids, and other ingredients give sweet wine a unique, sweet flavor and a small amount of alcohol.

Because the starch and protein in glutinous rice are fermented and turned into glucose, fructose, maltose, ethanol, polypeptides, and amino acids, respectively,sweet wine is therefore easy to be digested and absorbed by the human body.

Special tips:

Sweet wine is not suitable for people with high blood sugar and diabetes.

Nutritional Composition in Sweet Wine

Sweet wine contains ≤70% water, about 2.6% protein, 0.2% fat, about 22.9% carbohydrates, about 0.5% dietary fiber, at the same time, sweet wine also contains a small amount of calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, iron, copper, manganese, selenium, and other minerals and a variety of vitamins.

100 grams of sweet wine has 100 kilocalories, the alcohol content of sweet wine is not more than 6%, and 1 gram of alcohol has about 7 kilocalories.

So, sweet wine mainly replenishes the body with water, followed by carbohydrates (sugar and alcohol), proteins (polypeptides or amino acids), a small amount of fat, a variety of minerals and vitamins and other nutrients.

Because of the alcohol in sweet wine, eating too much at once is not good for the body.

Summary

Sweet wine has a unique taste, sweet flavor, contains a small amount of alcohol (alcohol content is not greater than 6%), moderate consumption of sweet wine can make the body spirit, happy mood.

Since the starch and protein in glutinous rice have been turned into glucose, fructose, maltose, ethanol, polypeptides or amino acids through the fermentation of the sweet wine quart, sweet wine is easy to be digested and absorbed by the body.

Sweet wine mainly replenishes water for the body, followed by nutrients such as carbohydrates (sugar and a small amount of alcohol turned into calories), proteins (polypeptides or amino acids), a small amount of fat (turned into calories), and a variety of minerals and vitamins.