Appearance: high-quality kudzu root powder is dark white and yellowish, with uniform particle size, good dryness, no degumming, no caking and no impurities. The inferior kudzuvine root powder is too white in color, with different particle sizes, poor dryness and serious degumming in some places.
Smell: grab a handful of pueraria lobata powder and smell it. High-quality pueraria lobata powder has a faint taste of traditional Chinese medicine, while inferior pueraria lobata powder smells tasteless or sour or other strange smells. Taste: High-quality kudzu root powder will melt naturally in the mouth soon, with a cool feeling, a faint scent of traditional Chinese medicine and a slightly sweet aftertaste. Inferior kudzu root powder tastes sour and fishy. Touch: grind pueraria powder with your fingers. High-quality pueraria powder, you can touch the crude fiber. If kudzuvine root powder is as delicate as starch, it means it is mixed with other starches.
Brewing: Pueraria lobata powder requires strict water temperature when brewing, and it must be freshly boiled water to brew. When the water temperature is low, it is liquid. If it is not brewed with very boiling water and the brewing is unsuccessful, it is fake pueraria powder. Pure kudzu powder is light yellow, transparent and gelatinous. Pueraria lobata powder is made of other starches, and its color is crystal clear after brewing.