With the improvement of living standards, sugar has also become a commonly used seasoning in our kitchen, for example, when we like to drink eight-treasure porridge, we can put some sugar in the eight-treasure porridge, so that the eight-treasure porridge tastes sweeter.
When we are cooking, for example, when making sweet and sour pork ribs or braised pork, we can put some sugar, and the color of the sweet and sour pork ribs or braised pork will be very beautiful at this time.
At the same time, sugar also has medicinal value, sugar has the effect of expectorant thirst, there are children at home, we can also boil some apple water for children, children prefer to drink apple water or pear water, we will use sugar at this time.
When we went to buy sugar, there were two kinds of sugar on the market, one was white sugar and the other was brown sugar, both of which were sugar, so what was the difference? I only found out why today? I'll tell you about it next.
First, the production method is different. Yellow sugar is called old sugar, it is polycrystalline sugar, and the impurities in it are not filtered out during the production process, so the color is naturally yellow. And the white sugar, called monocrystalline sugar, is also yellow at first, and after a series of refining, then filtering impurities, and finally forming white sugar, the white sugar will look cleaner.
Second, the nutritional content is different. Because the yellow sugar has not gone through the two steps of fading and refining and purification, the natural components of sugarcane in brown sugar are more than those in white sugar, so relatively speaking, the nutritional value of yellow sugar will be higher than that of white sugar, in general, yellow sugar is relatively rough and retained the original nutrients of sugarcane, and it will be more than white sugar.
Third, the use is different. For example, white sugar is suitable for cooking, for example, when making braised pork, we can put some white sugar, and use white sugar to color and enhance the flavor, which will be better. Yellow sugar, on the other hand, is suitable for use in tonics, such as when women have periods, when they stew soup, they can also be added to porridge, or they can be soaked in water alone.
I believe that everyone has a new understanding of sugar, whether we are cooking or boiling porridge, we have to consider which kind of sugar is more suitable for us, if we like the original sugar, we will buy yellow, if we like the sweetness will be higher, or when cooking, the color and sweetness will be stronger, we will buy this white sugar.
Have you learned some knowledge about sugar or what kind of sugar we are suitable for?