Sugar cane is the general name of Saccharum. The most common edible sugar cane in China is Saccharum sinense. Sugar cane is suitable for planting in areas with fertile soil, plenty of sunlight, and large temperature differences between winter and summer. Sugar cane is a temperate and tropical crop. It is a raw material for sucrose production and can be used as an energy substitute. More than 100 countries around the world produce sugar cane. The largest sugar cane producers are Brazil, India and China. Sugar cane is rich in sugar, water, but also contains a variety of vitamins, fats, proteins, organic acids, calcium, iron and other substances that are very beneficial to human metabolism. It is mainly used for sugar production and is now widely grown in tropical and subtropical regions.
Cane juice contains a variety of amino acids, organic acids.
Amino acids include: Asparagine, Aspartic acid, Glutamic acid, Serine, Alanine, Valine, Leucine ), Norleucine, ie, Norleucine, Lysine, Threonine, Glutamine, Proline, Tyrosine Cystine, γ-Aminobutyric acid, and Phenylalanine. Organic acids include: Mesaconic acid, Fumaric acid, Succinic acid, Aconitic acid, Glycolic acid, Malic acid, Phosphonic acid Citric acid and Oxalic acid.
The stem contains vitamin B1, vitamin B2 is Riboflavin, vitamin B6 is Pyridoxine, vitamin C is Ascorbic acid, sucrose, fructose and glucose ( Glucose).
The nutritional value of sugar cane is very high. It contains more water and the water accounts for 84% of sugar cane. Sugarcane has the most abundant sugar content, including sucrose, glucose and fructose, with a content of 12%. In addition, after scientific analysis, sugar cane also contains other substances needed by the human body, such as 0.2 g of protein, 0.5 g of fat, 8 mg of calcium, 4 mg of phosphorus, and 1.3 mg of iron. In addition, sugar cane also contains aspartate, glutamic acid, serine, alanine and other beneficial amino acids of the human body, as well as vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, and vitamin C and so on. The iron content of sugar cane is among the various fruits and it is the title of the "champion".
Ancient Chinese medical scientists also included sugar cane as a "tonic." Chinese medicine believes that sugarcane enters the lungs and the stomach two classics have a special effect of clearing away heat, producing fluid, exerting qi, moistening dryness, and invigorating the lung and benefiting the stomach. Sugar cane can cure the injury caused by fever, upset and thirsty, nausea and vomiting, cough and asthma caused by dryness. In addition, sugarcane can also be defecate, and drinking its juice can also alleviate alcoholism.
Although sugarcane is a good product, there are also people who are not suitable for it, such as patients suffering from cold stomach, vomiting, diarrhea, cough, expectoration and other symptoms, temporarily do not eat or eat sugar cane, so as not to aggravate the condition. Also must pay attention to: If the storage is not properly mildew. The kind of sugar cane with "dead color" on the surface cuts sugar cane. Its cross section is yellow or pig's liver. It smells musty, and bites a cane with sourness and distiller's grains. It can easily cause mold poisoning and cause optic nerve damage. The central nervous system is damaged. In severe cases, blindness may also result in blindness, and it is difficult to cure the disease by suffering from generalized spastic paralysis.