Many things in the world are relative, there is black and there is white, just like in the Chinese bagua, which also talks about the harmony of yin and yang, and there are corresponding examples in food, such as white sesame seeds and black sesame seeds, both of which belong to a kind of sesame seeds but have different colours, and both of them are also different from each other. Some of the cakes we eat are sprinkled with white sesame seeds, while the sesame seed powder we soak is usually black sesame seeds, and we pick different ingredients for different purposes.

　　Many people can't figure out the difference between white and black sesame seeds, and they don't understand this aspect, so they think that white and black sesame seeds can be used casually, but there is a difference. In order to solve your doubts, the following is to introduce the difference between the two.

　　Black sesame, known as houma, is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on. It also contains a variety of vitamins and sesamin, sesaminol, sterols and lecithin and other nutrients. The Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica says that sesame is the main treatment for "injuries and weakness, tonifying the five internal, beneficial to the energy, long muscles, fill the marrow". Compendium of Materia Medica" said "service (black sesame) to a hundred days, can get rid of all chronic diseases. One year body and face shine not hunger, two years white hair back to black, three years of teeth fall more alive" black sesame as a therapeutic food, beneficial to the liver, tonic kidney, blood, moistening dryness, hair, beauty effects, is the best health care and beauty food. Black sesame's magical effect, but also because it contains vitamin E ranks first in plant foods. Vitamin E can promote cell division, delay cellular aging, regular food can offset or neutralise the accumulation of intracellular decay substances "free radicals", anti-aging and longevity effects. Can cure constipation.

　　The use of dieting to lose weight, because of its nutritional intake is not enough, the skin will become dry, rough. Sesame seeds contain substances to prevent the body from getting fat methionine, choline, inosine, so sesame seeds eaten more will not get fat.

　　In the diet to lose weight at the same time, if with the consumption of sesame, rough skin can be improved. And sesame seeds also contain powerful anti-aging substances sesaminol, is to prevent female aging important tonic food, which is very rich in B vitamins, can promote metabolism, is conducive to the synthesis of estrogen and progesterone, so it can play the effect of breast.

　　Black sesame has the role of nourishing blood and liver and kidney, can be bright ears and eyes, and most people enter the middle-aged and elderly, will feel the eyes faint, or deafness symptoms, which is mainly due to the lack of liver and kidney, kidney essence deficiency caused by. At this time, if you can often eat some fried black sesame, can be delayed and control of blurred eyes. Specific eating method is: the black sesame seeds fried into powder, get up in the morning and half an hour before going to bed at night to eat a tablespoon, about 20 grams each time. And black sesame with milk to take on the liver and kidney yin deficiency type of old age deafness is effective. Method: 30 grams of black sesame, 200 ml of fresh milk, 10 grams of sugar. First of all, the black sesame wash and dry, into the pot with a small fire fried incense, while hot research into fine powder. Pour fresh milk into the pot, add black sesame seeds finely ground, sugar, simmering with a small fire, will boil when the cease-fire, poured into the cup can be. Take it with breakfast and finish it in 1 serving.

　　Secondly, sesame has black, white points, black sesame tonic effect than white sesame is a little stronger, is a very good anti-aging food. Black sesame not only has the effect of beard and hair, according to the results of contemporary medical research shows that black sesame is also very rich in vitamin E, can make the face shine, delay aging. However, breast cancer and other patients who are contraindicated vitamin E should not consume large quantities of black sesame seeds.

　　In addition, because it is rich in oil, laxative effect, it can be used to prevent and control the elderly blood loss of less than the dry stool, and honey with more diarrhoeal effect, but should not be used for patients with spleen deficiency and loose stools.

　　Because it has the effect of brain and marrow, so, for some of the liver and kidney insufficiency caused by dizziness, memory loss of the elderly, black sesame is also very beneficial. Treatment of dizziness and vertigo: the black sesame seeds appropriate amount of fried and finely ground. Take 50 grams of rice and sugar to cook for thick porridge, add 20 grams of black sesame seed powder to mix, simmer for 3 minutes, daily early in the morning on an empty stomach and dinner warm service. Memory loss: take black sesame, taro, etc., put rice steamed, and eat with rice, 3 times a day.

　　Black sesame seeds have a high calcium content, very suitable for vegetarians to supplement the nutritional consumption. And because it also has the role of increasing breast milk, postpartum new mothers can also use black sesame and pig's trotters stewed white radish soup.

　　We all know that black sesame seeds have the effect of black hair and skin care, and the sesame oil we use is also extracted from white sesame seeds. If you are a woman who has given birth to a child, you can also drink more black sesame seeds to help with milk production if you want to have enough milk. White sesame seeds make the baklava has a strong sesame flavour, in the barbecue and cooking is also often used. The above is introduced to you here, I hope it will help you.