Five little-known facts about sugar and its properties Bashny.Net

The editorial team appeared book, "What Einstein told his cook," who told us many previously unknown facts about the usual sugar! Inspired, we have compiled a selection to share these facts with our readers. < 1. Sugar and powdered sugar - it's not the same thing! Normal granulated refined sugar, that is composed of crystals of pure sucrose. But if you grind sugar powder, he begins to absorb moisture from the air, that is, become hygroscopic. To avoid this, manufacturers add powdered sugar about 3% starch.

If the icing sugar mixed with cold water, then it is not completely dissolved: water formed sticky lumps of starch. Do not replace sugar with powdered sugar when cooking.



2. Brown (cane) sugar hardens quickly in the air, turns into poorly soluble stone. To avoid this, keep the sugar in a tightly closed jar. If the sugar has hardened, bring it back to life is quite simple: pack it in a sealed container along with anything that is able to give moisture. Anything from an apple slice to slice a damp cloth. Wrapped container with cling film and place on top of wet paper towel. After about a day of sugar will be soft.

3. Experienced hostess know that sugar is able to violate the laws of physics: for example, a glass of water in one easy solution (if you want) two cups of sugar! How so?

Of course, there is not no laws are violated: a sugar molecule have the ability to "squeeze" in the space between the water molecules. With water heating can accommodate more than two kilograms of sugar in a glass of water! Actually, something like this, and there were candy.

4. There is no difference between beet and cane sugar is not. In the refining process, we obtain pure sucrose, so the chemical composition identical to sugar. Manufacturers do not even have to specify which product is subjected to processing: beets or sugar.

Brown cane sugar - refined sugar is coated with a thin film of molasses - thick dark liquid that remains after processing sugar cane.

Molasses remaining after processing beet unsuitable for human consumption. Therefore, brown sugar beet does not happen.



5. Starches and sugars - two very closely related family of substances. That's why by complex chemical reactions we can get sweet corn syrup from a relatively savory corn.

However, none of the sugar except the saccharose contained only beet and cane may not be as sweet as it is. That is why the products of our time, sweetened corn syrup, different tastes from those products that produced previously. If you want, for example, have a drink "soda from the very childhood," look for one that is sweetened with sugar or sucrose syrups instead.



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