Auricularia auricula is made of brown sugar, water, refined powder and seaweed gum into paste. Because there is brown sugar as the color, it tastes obviously sweet, which is not available in natural fungus.

Such artificial auricularia auricula has little water absorption and limited volume growth after soaking in water. If you add some soda water when soaking in clear water, the water will be turbid.

Identification skills of auricularia auricula:

1, pinch. Usually, pure auricularia auricula has less water content and is easy to crush by hand; Pinch it and put it away, and the fragments can be well stretched and elastic. However, the soaked auricularia auricula contains a lot of water and is not easy to crush.

2. Taste. Good fungus tastes pure, not only has no peculiar smell, but also tastes fragrant. Inferior black fungus is different, the fragrance can't be tasted, but it has a strange smell. Not to mention toxic and harmful, just saying "delicious" is not enough.

3, bubble. The inferior auricularia auricula soaked in ink will smell of ink, and it can still be smelled if you smell it carefully. In addition, when dealing with auricularia auricula, it is indispensable to use water to make hair. If you find that the water soaked in fungus turns black, don't eat it.