1 How to choose wild rice

Do not buy if it is green or gray.

When purchasing wild rice, it is better to have the part above the root that is significantly enlarged and the flesh of the wild rice can be slightly exposed when you open one side of the leaf sheath. If there is red dew on the skin, it is mostly due to discoloration caused by picking for too long, and the texture is older. If you find that there is too much water in the shell, it means the picking time was too long. When wild rice is too tender or turns green or gray, it cannot be purchased. Inferior quality wild rice is mostly expired and aged wild rice, with soft flesh and thick and hard fiber; even parasitic hyphae produce thick-film spores, and black spots appear in the wild rice, which gradually expand into dark brown and are inedible.

2 How to preserve wild rice

Store refrigerated.

Wild rice should not be stored for long periods of time under home conditions. For short-term storage, you can put 2 to 3 pieces of wild rice shells in a fresh-keeping bag and put it in the refrigerator. It can generally be stored for 1 to 2 weeks. 3 How to eat wild rice safely

1. When cooking wild rice, you must control the oil temperature and the heat when stewing, so as not to affect the taste. 2. Since wild rice contains a lot of oxalic acid, its calcium is not easily absorbed by the body, so it is not suitable to eat too much. 4 What should you pay attention to when eating wild rice

In order to keep wild rice pure and fresh, some unscrupulous traders add industrial raw materials such as sodium metabisulfite and low sodium sulfite to the water in which wild rice is soaked, commonly known as "insurance powder". "Insurance powder" is a chemical preservative that is widely used in papermaking, textile printing and dyeing and other industries, and can play a bleaching role. "Insurance powder" has the property of decomposing sulfur dioxide when it meets water. If it is used to soak and bleach wild rice, long-term consumption will cause great harm to the body, so it is best to buy those wild rice that has not been shelled.