The product standard for brown sugar is only QB/T4561, which is the standard set by the national light industry industry, and the brown sugar that can't reach this standard are not real brown sugar.

Red sugar has red sugar standards, so even if the front of the package is written on the brown sugar, but the standard number on the back of the package must be written QB/T35885, the country for red sugar is also a product standard definition. Real brown sugar molding at the beginning of the block, the incision has obvious sand lines, so whether it is canned or bagged, or bulk, real brown sugar is a piece of a piece, occasionally some broken.

But red sugar can never be lumpy, unless it is spoiled or artificially created, it is like a pot of loose sand, usually in the form of dry powder (yellow sand), lumpy or dissolved by moisture, with impurities. At this point, you'll be able to recognize it pretty quickly.

Ways to buy really good brown sugar

1, look at the ingredient list

The ingredient list can be very intuitively show which is really brown sugar. The raw material of brown sugar is usually sugarcane, which is made after juicing, de-impregnating, boiling and other processes.

In the boiling process, the color of the juice will slowly turn reddish-brown, after solidification of the surface is also different shades of color, smells a unique caramelized sugar aroma, so the real brown sugar ingredients list will have "sugar cane" or "juice" and so on. The actual brown sugar will have the words "sugar cane" or "sugar cane juice" in the list of ingredients.

2, smell

If it is authentic brown sugar, generally with a strong cane sugar flavor, and because the production needs to be boiled, so there may be some burnt incense, but smell is very good.

And fake brown sugar has chemicals added to it, so it will smell a little boozy or sour.