What's the difference between rock sugar and yellow rock sugar?

Different characteristics: rock sugar has been refined and concentrated for many times, and contains no impurities. It is usually used to cook porridge. Yellow rock sugar is a simple extraction, does not decolorize, contains a lot of impurities, and is generally used to make soup. Yellow rock sugar is more nutritious than rock sugar.

Yellow rock candy also has the function of "adding sugar color" in cooking, so when it is necessary to "stir-fry sugar color", it is more natural to choose polycrystalline yellow rock candy. Single crystal white rock sugar is easier to melt and more convenient in cooking and processing.

Matters needing attention in rock sugar

Rock sugar can tonify the middle energizer, moisten the lung, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and has certain improvement effect on dizziness, headache and anorexia caused by deficiency of qi and blood. It can also improve the symptoms of cough and expectoration.

However, it should be noted that excessive intake of rock sugar may increase blood sugar, so diabetic patients should use it with caution. Moreover, too much sugar intake is not conducive to local skin healing, and people with trauma should use rock sugar with caution.