How to distinguish between sugar-dried sea cucumbers and light-dried sea cucumbers
Light-dried and sugar-dried sea cucumbers~
Sugar-dried sea cucumbers: refers to the process of processing sea cucumbers. Add sugar to dried sea cucumbers to increase their weight, in order to increase the selling price of sea cucumbers and save costs. The processed sugar-dried sea cucumbers look much better, so many people’s cheap sea cucumbers are actually sugar-dried sea cucumbers. Sea cucumbers with added sugar are not good for your health and it is not recommended to buy them.
Distinguish sugar-dried sea cucumber: It is easy to distinguish this type of sea cucumber. Hold and wrap the whole sea cucumber with your hands, and then knead the sea cucumber for three minutes. If it is sugar-dried sea cucumber, it will become soft. Tacky.
Of course, you can also ask about the taste of sea cucumbers. If you smell something sweet, it is obviously sugar-dried sea cucumbers. However, this test is quite strong on the sense of smell, and most people just start it directly.
Light-dried sea cucumber: It is currently the largest type of dried sea cucumber on the market. Light-dried sea cucumber is a sea cucumber product made by processing fresh sea cucumbers, removing the internal organs, cleaning, boiling, shrinking, and natural drying. During the processing, sea cucumbers without any artificial additives are called light-dried sea cucumbers
Distinguish light-dried sea cucumbers: light-dried sea cucumbers are much harder than sugar-dried sea cucumbers. Sugar-dried sea cucumbers may bend and then spring back when you break them. But the dried sea cucumber is very hard, and even the scallions are hard and prickly.