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Words for Sugar

The words for sugar are candy, maltose, brown sugar, and sugar man.

I. Candy:

Candy is a small, beautifully made and sweet-tasting foodstuff, usually made from sugar, spices, coloring and other ingredients. There are many types of candies, including hard candy, soft candy, chocolate candies and so on. They are often used as snacks or gifts and are common in holiday celebrations and children's events.

Two, maltose:

Maltose is a traditional nostalgic snack, also known as caramel, commonly known as maltose paste, which belongs to one of the Min-Taiwan delicacies, yellowish-brown, glossy, clear and transparent, sweet and sweet in the mouth, with a distinctive aroma, no odor, no impurities. Maltose is produced by the action of malt containing amylase enzyme on starch, and can be used to make wine, vinegar, candy, sauce color, cake, honey fruit and so on.

Maltose is the earliest artificial sugar, the history can be traced back to 3,000 years ago, the germination of plant seeds generally produce a saccharification enzyme, which hydrolyzes starch into maltose, maltose is not too easy to crystallize, but it is easy to make a gelatinous substance, which is the earliest ancient people to produce a sweetener. Maltase hydrolyzes it into two molecules of alpha-D-glucose.

Three, brown sugar:

Brown sugar is a kind of unrefined sugar, usually boiled from cane sugar extract or cane sugar residue. Brown sugar is reddish in color and rich in a unique sweet flavor, and is widely used in cooking and pastry making. People who are traditionally accustomed to eating brown sugar are generally of the opinion that white sugar is light and sweet in terms of sweetness, while brown sugar is thickly sweetened.

However, the former contains more sucrose than the latter. For this reason, the production of brown sugar in addition to the benefits of high sugar yield, the consumer can also reduce the intake of calories at the same sweetness.

Four, sugar man:

Sugar man's production method is to boil sugar or maltose made of various shapes, and finally inserted into the bamboo stick, after cooling molding, there are characters, animals, flowers and plants, etc., in accordance with the different production process can be divided into blowing sugar man, painting sugar man and pinch sugar man three. Sugar man is a variety of sugar as raw materials for the production of image modeling food, commonly found in traditional Chinese culture.

The production of sugar figures usually requires the use of high-temperature melted syrup and blowing techniques, after a series of processes to form a variety of shapes such as characters, animals and so on. Sugar figures are often used as candies and gifts during traditional Chinese festivals and celebrations, and have a certain collection and heritage value in the handicraft market.