The difference between wafer paper and glutinous rice paper

Wafer paper is edible paper, also called glutinous rice paper.

Glutinous rice paper is transparent and tasteless, with a thickness of 0.02~0.025mm, which melts at the entrance. It is made of starch, and its main nutrient component is carbohydrate rich in starch. It can provide heat and is an important substance that constitutes the body.

It is made by mixing starch, gelatin and a small amount of lecithin, casting into a film and drying. It is mainly used for the inner packaging of candy, pastry or medicine, to prevent it from sticking to the outer packaging paper, and also to prevent moisture.

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Edible method

1, ordinary glutinous rice paper

Usage: directly wrapped in candy, pastry or medicine, and can be eaten directly.

Ordinary sticky rice paper can be used to wrap candy and cakes, because it does not affect the taste of the wrapped food, so it should be melted in the mouth (fragile).

Ordinary glutinous rice paper can be used to wrap cold dishes, cooked food, desserts, snacks and so on, such as peanut candy, crisp candy, butterscotch, Sugar-Coated Berry, salad shrimp roll, Jinsha egg yolk roll, vanilla ice cream, chocolate, crystal egg yolk shrimp, fried ice cream, high-grade tea, crispy Hami melon roll, pine nut roast duck roll ..........,

2. Glutinous rice paper coated with pills

Usage: solid drugs with bitter taste, such as tablets, pills, powders, etc. It needs to be wrapped in special sticky rice paper.

The flexibility, isolation and lubricity of tablet coated glutinous rice paper must be strengthened to ensure that the glutinous rice paper will not be destroyed after the medicine is put into the mouth, and the bitter taste will not ooze after drinking water, and it will become smooth and easy to swallow until it is swallowed in the stomach. So ordinary sticky rice paper is not competent, and special sticky rice paper with pills is needed.

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