Lao Wang talks about sugar the second lecture: the main components of brown sugar and its efficacy
Q: What are the main ingredients of brown sugar and what are its functions?
A: Whether it is brown sugar or brown sugar, its main components are sucrose and some reducing sugar. National standard GB/T? In brown sugar (35885-20 18), the total sugar content of super brown sugar is ≥90%, and the water content is ≤4%. In other words, except sugar and water, the other ingredients in brown sugar are less than 6%.
1, sucrose:
Yes, you are not mistaken. The main component of brown sugar is the same substance as ordinary white sugar-sucrose.
The average sucrose content in brown sugar is about 82.5% (according to many groups of research data at home and abroad, the sucrose content in brown sugar is between 76.55% and 89.48%), while the standard requirement of jaggery brown sugar in India is over 80%. In fact, when the sucrose content is lower than 75%, it is difficult for brown sugar to be back-sanded, and when it is lower than 70%, it will not solidify.
The effect of sucrose on human body is relatively simple, which is called "naked calorie", that is, it can only provide energy for human body and has no other health care function.
2. Reducing sugar:
The reducing sugar in brown sugar mainly exists in the form of molasses, including glucose, fructose and a small amount of xylose.
The average content of reducing sugar in brown sugar is about 7% (many groups of research data at home and abroad show that the content of reducing sugar in brown sugar is between 3.69%- 10.50%), while the standard requirement of first-class jaggery brown sugar in India is less than 10%.
Reducing sugar is one of the effective components of brown sugar, which is mainly reflected in the fact that the human body can directly absorb glucose and quickly increase the blood sugar concentration, thus making people feel warm, and has certain functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, dispelling cold and warming the stomach. In addition, reducing sugar has a certain antioxidant effect and has a certain effect on skin whitening, which is one of the reasons why the mask made of brown sugar is effective.
3. Polysaccharide: Polysaccharide is mainly composed of five-carbon sugar and six-carbon sugar (preserved in molasses during the production of cane sugar), which has inhibitory effect on Ehrlich's cancer and sarcoma in mice-180.
4. Amino acids, protein, cellulose, etc. These substances come from the residue in the process of extracting and filtering sugarcane juice. They are indispensable basic substances to participate in human life activities and are effective in promoting health.
5. Trace elements: These substances are absorbed by the human body and have certain health care effects. For example, arsenic, iron and copper can strongly stimulate hematopoietic function and have the effect of promoting blood circulation and enriching blood.
6. Vitamins and biological acids: Vitamins have a good nourishing effect on the human body, and some vitamins such as VC, VB2 and nicotinic acid are of great benefit to skin health; AHAs (fruit acid) contained in it has certain effect on reducing pigmentation and delaying skin aging.
7. Melanoid components: During the boiling process of brown sugar, the reducing sugar and amino acid components in brown sugar produce Maillard reaction, and different amino acids react with reducing sugar to produce different flavors, thus showing the unique flavor of precious brown sugar; At the same time, Maillard reaction will also produce melanoidin (a macromolecular substance with antioxidant effect), which has a certain effect on improving cell protection, anti-aging and whitening skin.
8. Phenolic compounds: Phenolic compounds contained in brown sugar are natural antioxidants existing in many plants, and their antioxidant effect can be achieved by complexing free metal ions and transferring them. Hydrogen atom transfer has a direct chemical reaction with antioxidant enzymes in the body, and a synergistic reaction with antioxidants in the body to enhance the body's immunity.
9. Other functions:
A foreign research report shows that 46 academic publications have been confirmed to report the effects of brown sugar (NCS) on human health. The most common diseases are immunization (26%), followed by antitoxicity and cytotoxicity (22%), antitumor (15%), diabetes and hypertension (1 1%).
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Lao Wang talks about sugar lecture 20: an authoritative introduction to the efficacy of brown sugar?
Q: There are different opinions on the efficacy of brown sugar on the Internet. Is there an authoritative introduction about the efficacy of brown sugar?
A: At the request of group friends, the research on the medicinal properties and origin of brown sugar is summarized as follows:
1, name check: the word brown sugar is rare in ancient books, and sand sugar is its common name.
Drug name brown sugar
Alias Shatang (Cao), Zisha Sugar (Compendium of Materia Medica), Black Sugar (Compendium of Materia Medica), Brown Sugar (Compilation of Yilin) and Yellow Sugar (Seeking Compendium of Materia Medica).
The source is the stem juice of Gramineae sugarcane, which is refined into red crystals.
2. Main books and records: mainly refer to books and records that have great influence on Chinese medicine, such as Tang Bencao, Compendium of Materia Medica, Compilation of Medical Forests, etc. , and listed the efficacy of sugarcane and honey as a comparison; In view of the incomplete information, I don't have any written information in my hand, so I can't quote and verify it in case of misleading or making mistakes.
3. Efficacy introduction: It is listed according to the standard format of China Pharmacopoeia, that is, sexual taste and meridian tropism, function and indication.
① Sugar in Compendium of Materia Medica
The smell is sweet, cold and nontoxic.
Indications: fullness in the heart and dry mouth. (Tang Ben). Moisten the heart, lungs, large intestine, clear away heat, and relieve alcohol poisoning. In the cesspit of the sealed cellar of the twelfth lunar month bottle, wringing juice is very good for people with day fever. (Daming) Regulating middle energizer, invigorating spleen and soothing liver. (Shi Zhen).
Invention [Jane said] Sugar is warm, which is different from sugarcane pith.
Set solution [Gong Yue] Shatang out of Sichuan, found in Xirong and Jiangdong. Fried sugarcane juice, purple. [Ruiyue] Thin is sucrose, dry is sand sugar, ball is pill sugar, and cake is sugar cake. Sand sugar condenses like stone, breaks like sand, is transparent and white, and is a sugar coating. [Shi Zhen said] This purple sand sugar is also. When the law went out of the Western Regions, Emperor Taizong sent people to China. Pass the sugarcane juice through a camphor wood trough, then pick it up and fry it. Clear sugar cane, concentrated sugar sand. Paint jars such as stone, frost and ice are made of stone honey, powdered sugar and rock sugar. Purple sugar can also be fried and printed in the shape of birds, animals and fruits to fill seats. Today's goods, there are many miscellaneous things with rice, we must know.
(2) A dictionary of brown sugar in traditional Chinese medicine.
Sexual taste and meridian warmth? Gan into the liver, spleen and stomach meridians?
Functions and indications: tonifying the middle energizer, soothing the liver, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Can't postpartum lochia, retching and vomiting, and bloody dysentery be cured?
(3) Brown sugar in brick kilns in Lin Yi.
Hot sex? Gan?
Indications: Warming stomach, invigorating spleen, soothing liver, removing blood stasis, promoting blood circulation and moistening intestines?
4 "Materia Medica Seeking the Original" Zisha Sugar? Flaky yellow sugar
Sexual taste and meridian warmth? Gan ru gan
Indications: strengthening spleen and regulating liver. Solve tobacco poisoning. Boiling coke to treat septicemia, palpitation and blood dysentery of parturient.
Focus on sugar, which is made from sugarcane. Sugarcane is naturally neutral, sweet and cold, and has been used to clear away heat and moisten dryness. Its treatment can help the intestine to relieve troubles, resolve phlegm and quench thirst. As for rock sugar, it turns warm and red after fire exercise, which seems to be different from sugar cane. So it can remove blood stasis, which is based on maternal blood halo. It is more useful to take it with wine to remove blood stasis. Xiaoer Pill Powder, used for regulating clothes and taking its temperature to clear stagnation; Tobacco is used to detoxify and enlighten. However, if nature is warm, it will disappear, and then it will decline. Therefore, eating too much deficiency heat will damage teeth and eliminate muscles. The taste is sweet and slow, and excessive phlegm has the disadvantage of loving the diaphragm, which needs careful consideration and careful observation.
⑤ Shatang in Newly Revised Materia Medica (Tang Materia Medica)
Cold in nature, non-toxic and sweet in taste.
The function and indications are the same as honey, but the benefits of catching a cold outweigh it.
⑥ "Life Fun Diet Spectrum" brown sugar
Indications: dispelling cold, promoting blood circulation, relaxing muscles and tendons and relieving pain.
All landowners "materia medica from the new" brown sugar.
Function and indications, blood neutralization, function is similar to that of whites, but slightly inferior. Blood is purple, which is the best.
8 Brown sugar in Ben Feng Jingyuan
Function and indications: It can be used to treat maternal septicemia, heart attack, and those who are weak, old and unable to have bloody dysentery.
Pet-name ruby "with herbal medicine"
Meridian tropism and foot Taiyin
Attending herbal renewal
Meridian entering the liver, spleen and lung meridians.
⑾ Compendium of Materia Medica
Meridian tropism enters the Taiyin and Yangming meridians of foot.
⑿ Japanese Herbal Medicine
Indications: moistening heart and lung, killing insects and relieving hangover.
[13] "Primitive Man of Materia Medica" brown sugar.