What's the difference between sugar and rock sugar?

Rock candy is a kind of sugar, and it is a crystal copy of sugar. It is made of white sugar through water dissolution, impurity removal, juice clarification, evaporation, concentration and cooling crystallization. ?

White sugar and soft sugar are both called white sugar, and the sucrose content is generally above 95%. White sugar is uniform and neat, hard, loose and dry, without impurities. It is the purest variety with the most sucrose in sugar, and it is also an easy-to-preserve sugar.

Compared with sugar, soft white sugar has fine crystal particles, high water content, soft appearance and melt in the mouth. It is suitable to be directly sprinkled on food and snacks and dipped in it. It is difficult to preserve because of its high water content, and it is best to process it into small packages. ?

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Crystal sugar is warm, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, moistening lung and relieving cough, and has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on dry lung cough, dry cough without phlegm and expectoration with blood. It has the effects of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is widely used in high-grade tonics and health products produced in food and pharmaceutical industries. Old people can also quench their thirst by containing rock sugar. Sweet smell, benefiting qi and moistening dryness, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, white, yellow, red and crimson in color, crystal ice-like, hence the name rock sugar. Is it best and purest to use transparent crystal sugar? .

References:

Rock sugar (a kind of sugar) _ Baidu Encyclopedia

Sugar _ Baidu Encyclopedia?