First, it is generally recognized.

Good brown sugar-granular or powdery, dry and loose, without caking, caking and impurities, its aqueous solution is clear, without precipitation and suspended matter.

Inferior brown sugar-caked or dissolved by moisture

Inferior brown sugar-there are impurities in the molten salt water, and sediment or suspended matter can be seen in the sugar water solution. ?

Smell recognition?

Good brown sugar-has the clear fragrance of sugarcane juice.

Secondary brown sugar-normal smell but light fragrance.

Inferior brown sugar-has the smell of wine, sour taste or other foreign bad smell. ?

Taste recognition?

When checking the taste of brown sugar, put a little brown sugar in your mouth, taste it with your tongue, and then prepare 10% brown sugar water solution for tasting.

Good brown sugar-sweet and fresh, slightly molasses.

Inferior brown sugar-normal taste.

Inferior brown sugar-bitter taste or other peculiar smell.

Two. Method for identifying true and false brown sugar:

1.？ Look at the ingredient list of the package.

Fake brown sugar has brown sugar, and real brown sugar should be sucrose.

2.？ Look at the shape

Sugar looks as hard as a stone, but when you bite it, it will melt in your mouth. Brown sugar prepared by general chemical industry is slightly lighter in color, hard in surface and actually hard.

3.？ Observe liquidity

The same bag of brown sugar, if viewed from the other side, is fake brown sugar with good fluidity. Is the particle fluidity of true brown sugar poor? Because it contains substances such as water, it is more viscous and hinders flow.

4.？ smell

Real brown sugar smells sweet, with fresh sugarcane fragrance, and fake brown sugar may have a pungent taste.

5.？ Taste it

Real brown sugar is delicate, such as Baoyu in the mouth, sweet and mellow between the tip of the tongue and the lips and teeth. Fake brown sugar is only sweet and greasy, and chewing stones will click like sand.

6.？ have a good swim

After brewing brown sugar with boiling water, you will see many small bubbles coming out constantly. The bubbles gradually become larger from bottom to top, and the bubbles are uneven. If it is brown sugar, the bubbles are even and delicate. And the same amount of soaking water, real brown sugar is much sweeter than fake brown sugar.

7.？ Pinch by hand

Squeeze a small handful with your hand and rub it back and forth between your thumb and forefinger. No matter how bitter it is, the real brown sugar will be scattered! And it will be sticky, while fake brown sugar is very different. It is hard and hard to rub.

8.？ Scrape with a knife

Scraping with a knife shows that fake brown sugar will make a loud sound, such as scraping stones. When the real brown sugar is scraped with a knife, although there is a sound, it is very small, and you can feel the sound is very soft.