What is the difference between rock sugar and cotton sugar

I believe that some friends have an incomplete understanding of rock sugar and granulated sugar. Rock sugar and granulated sugar are both sucrose. Cotton sugar crystallizes into rock sugar under certain conditions. Soft sugar helps the human body absorb calcium, and rock sugar can have a throat-moistening effect.

Rock sugar and white sugar can be said to be condiments. For some people who love sweets, no matter what kind of food they make, as long as sugar can be added, they will add it. No matter how similar two foods are, we know that there are differences between them, which is why they are separated, and they each have their own unique nutritional value and benefits for people to eat. Need to distinguish them, first need to understand them.

Only by distinguishing two or more similar foods, it will be very convenient to eat or prepare them. For example, if other foods need to be added during the food preparation process, it is necessary to consider whether it and these added foods are mutually exclusive and so on. So what is the difference between rock sugar and white sugar?

In fact, white sugar, rock sugar and brown sugar are all extracted from sugarcane and beets, and all belong to the category of sucrose. Brown sugar is a mixture of sucrose and molasses, and white sugar is made from brown sugar through several processes such as washing, centrifuging, separating the molasses, and stripping. Rock sugar is formed by recrystallization of white sugar under certain conditions. Their chemical composition is sucrose. When brown sugar is stored for a long time, the molasses will oxidize, causing its color to become darker and its taste to become sour. At this time, the brown sugar can no longer be eaten.

Generally speaking, white sugar is neutral in nature and has a higher purity; brown sugar is warm in nature and has more impurities; and rock sugar is the crystallization of sugar.

In terms of efficacy: Appropriate consumption of white sugar helps to improve the body's absorption of calcium; but too much will hinder the absorption of calcium. Rock sugar nourishes yin and produces body fluid, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. It has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on dry cough, dry cough without sputum, and sputum with blood. Although brown sugar contains more impurities, its nutrients are better retained. It has the effects of invigorating qi, relieving stomach discomfort, helping the spleen to digest food, replenishing blood and removing blood stasis, and also has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving pain. Therefore, women who suffer from dysmenorrhea caused by cold and physical weakness or after childbirth often have significant effects by drinking some brown sugar water. Brown sugar also has an excellent healing and tonic effect on the elderly and weak, especially those who have just recovered from a serious illness. In addition, brown sugar can play a certain preventive role in vascular sclerosis and is not likely to induce dental diseases such as caries.