Sea cucumbers can be identified as follows:

1. From the color point of view.

The color of real sea cucumber is brown and brown-black, while the color of artificial sea cucumber looks a little black, and there will be color loss after soaking, which indicates that it is a fake sea cucumber that has been dyed.

2, from the appearance.

The shape of real sea cucumber has different lengths of thorns, and the overall shape of the surface is still very complete, but the thorns of artificial sea cucumber are generally flat, and there is some damage on the surface, especially the elasticity of the sea cucumber is real sea cucumber, and the elasticity is not enough to be a fake sea cucumber.

And the sea cucumber must be clean and full, so that its nutrition will be more rich.

3, from the internal structure.

Generally, the interior of real sea cucumber is empty, and there are some tendons on the inner wall, while artificial sea cucumber's interior is very smooth and there is no open part.

4, from the point of view of tasting.

The real sea cucumber has the taste of sea salt, but if it is adulterated sea cucumber, in order to sell at a high price, it will add a lot of saccharin or alum to increase the weight. If you buy a fake sea cucumber, especially the processed dried sea cucumber, its internal structure is broken, and some added preservatives and other ingredients are added during the processing.

Taste the flavor of the sea cucumber, if there is a little salty flavor, it is fake, usually sea cucumbers are not salty.