It’s liquor.

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Chinese Baijiu (Chinese Baijiu), also known as Shaojiu, Laobaigan, Shaojiu, etc., is one of the six major distilled spirits in the world.

Liquor has a compound aroma mainly composed of esters. It uses koji and distiller’s yeast as saccharification fermentation agents, and uses starchy (sugar) raw materials to brew it through cooking, saccharification, fermentation, distillation, aging and blending. Made from.

Strictly speaking, prepared wine made by blending edible alcohol and edible spices cannot be regarded as liquor. Liquor is mainly concentrated in the triangle areas of Renhuai in Guizhou, Yibin in Sichuan, and Luzhou in Sichuan in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Chishui River Basin. There are types such as sauce-flavored and strong-flavored liquors.

Liquor is different from rice wine, beer and fruit wine. In addition to containing a very small amount of sodium, copper and zinc, it almost contains no vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc., and only contains water and ethanol (alcohol). .

Traditionally, liquor is believed to have the functions of activating blood circulation and dredging the meridians, assisting with medicine, increasing appetite, eliminating fatigue, cultivating sentiment, making people light-hearted and keeping out the cold.

Drinking a small amount of low-alcohol liquor can dilate small blood vessels, reduce the sugar content in the blood, promote blood circulation, and delay the deposition of cholesterol and other lipids on the blood vessel walls, which is beneficial to the circulatory system and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems. .