Is single crystal or polycrystalline rock sugar better?

When we were young, if we had a cough or a cold, our mother would make rock sugar and pear for us to drink, mainly to help our throats recover faster. So there are many choices of rock sugar, divided into single crystal and polycrystalline. For ordinary families, there are not too many requirements, so everyone just chooses to use the one sold in supermarkets. But today we are going to see whether single crystal or polycrystalline is better.

From a medical point of view, single crystal rock sugar is more conducive to human absorption than polycrystalline rock sugar. If you need to take rock sugar, it is recommended to take single crystal rock sugar.

Polycrystalline rock sugar: also known as large block rock sugar. Axis ice is made by natural crystallization using traditional technology. Commonly known as natural rock sugar.

Single crystal rock sugar: It is processed by modern machines on the basis of traditional technology to form countless particles of the same shape. Commonly known as single crystal rock sugar

A single crystal is one in which all the ions or atoms that make up the entire crystal are arranged in a certain direction and order. If multiple single crystals are chaotically combined together with obvious boundaries between the crystals, such crystals are called polycrystals.

On the surface, single crystals appear in small pieces and are whitish in color; polycrystalline ones appear in large pieces with many corners and are relatively transparent.

Processing method:

(1) Single crystal rock sugar: Put white sugar into an appropriate amount of water, heat and dissolve, filter and put into a crystallization tank to make the sugar solution supersaturated, add crystal seeds to grow crystals, and after the crystals grow large, take them out for honey removal and centrifugal drying, ventilate and dry, sieve, grade and package before shipment.

(2) Polycrystalline rock sugar: Add appropriate amount of white sugar to water, heat and dissolve, and boil the sugar. After reaching a certain concentration, put it into the crystallization basin. After growing the crystals in the crystallization room for one week, take out the mother liquor and drain it out. Remove the sand bottom, crush it and dry it, then mix it and pack it for shipment.

From this we can see that everyone can choose according to their own needs. Single crystals have the advantages of single crystals, and polycrystalline has the advantages of polycrystalline, so there is no uniqueness. For children, they are not allowed to consume large amounts of sugar, as this is not good for their teeth or health, so the elders must pay attention to this.