Is brown sugar brown sugar?
In the modern sugar industry, sugar cane is squeezed first, and then phosphoric acid, sulfur and lime water are added for decoloration to obtain white sugar. After many times of purification, the sugar residue remained its original color and was finally processed into brown sugar. So brown sugar is the twin brother of white sugar. Some experts pointed out that brown sugar in the traditional sense is made directly from sugarcane, and brown sugar is the next-level product after sugarcane industrialization is made into white sugar. In other words, brown sugar is an industrialized sugar, just like white sugar. "Brown sugar everywhere in the market is always covered with brown sugar, and its packaging ingredients list is also varied, including rock sugar honey, white sugar, sucrose, and what's more, brown sugar is directly marked on the ingredients list." Brown sugar, only 60 years old. However, due to its low production cost, taste and color close to brown sugar, and easy to mass production, it quickly occupied more than half of the brown sugar market. Precious brown sugar, which was eaten by a few people in ancient times, is now produced in large quantities and enters public life.
The efficacy of brown sugar, high-quality raw materials and traditional technology are the basis of real brown sugar. True brown sugar, also known as ancient brown sugar, is boiled by hand without adding any preservatives, so that the nutrition in sugarcane can be preserved. It is helpful to improve women's cold constitution, dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation caused by cold deficiency, and is beneficial to postpartum uterine contraction, recovery, lochia discharge and milk secretion. Easy to be absorbed by human body, can quickly replenish human energy, help restore physical strength, promote children's bone growth and increase memory. It can also improve the cold weakness, anemia, rough skin and decreased hematopoietic function of the elderly. It has strong anti-oxidation and repair effects and promotes cell regeneration.
How to distinguish true and false brown sugar
Look at the ingredient list of the package, and you can analyze whether it is really brown sugar according to the ingredients on the ingredient list. Take a bite of the brown sugar that is "condensed as stone and broken as sand" recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica. Authentic brown sugar looks as hard as a stone, but it melts (like sand) with a slight bite, which is natural and sweet, with a strong sense of sand and a unique caramel aftertaste. Generally, the brown sugar processed by chemical blending is slightly lighter in color and harder in surface. Be careful with your teeth when eating, only sweet and greasy; The real brown sugar is very soft, and the cut sugar slice has good ductility, the color of the slice is almost the same as that of the whole piece, and the grains are even and soft. Smell is smell. Real brown sugar smells like fresh sugarcane in sweet sweetness, and it has absolutely no pungent taste.
Observe the fluidity of the same bag of brown sugar. If you look at it the other way around, the particles with good fluidity are fake brown sugar. The particle fluidity of true brown sugar is poor, because it contains water and other substances, which are sticky and hinder the flow. After soaking in boiling water to make brown sugar, you will see many small bubbles coming out constantly. Because the boiling process of brown sugar is the evaporation process of sucrose water, water bubbles in syrup and then breaks to form steam evaporation. The more sugar cane juice is cooked, the thicker the bubbles are, and the greater the resistance to bubbles is. When it is poured and cooled, it is left in the sugar, forming many small holes. White sugar and brown sugar have almost no water, so at most a few small holes are formed in the shallow surface. True brown sugar is boiled by hand, which will produce a lot of gas after entering the water, and then slowly melt. Ordinary industrial brown sugar is soluble in water.