The black sea cucumber on the left is good, and the surface color of the sea cucumber with better quality is uneven light black or dark brown, and the thorns on the body are short and thick, while the color is white or there are no thick thorns, which proves that the sea cucumber is not old enough. ? Generally, the choice of sea cucumbers should be mature sea cucumbers that have grown for 3-5 years, because only sea cucumbers that grow to a certain age will mature and have high nutritional value. The texture of the sea cucumber thorn with good touch quality is soft and elastic when pinched by hand, while the sea cucumber with poor quality is not elastic enough and soft and weak. ?

Dry sea cucumber shopping

Observe the appearance?

Dry sea cucumber is black-gray or gray in appearance, complete in shape, uniform in size and shiny, with no obvious calcareous or less calcareous mouth, while the sea cucumber with poor quality is just the opposite, with uneven size, irregular shape and deformity, and obvious salt frost or other impurities can be seen. ?

Touch feel?

High-quality dry sea cucumber is hard, difficult to break, and light in weight. It feels like charcoal when knocking on the table, and it is elastic when throwing the ground. Inferior dry sea cucumber is easy to be broken, with obvious impurities falling off, heavy in hand and inelastic when knocking.

Smell it?

The taste of dry sea cucumber should be pure. A good sea cucumber smells delicious and has no other peculiar smell, but a bad sea cucumber either has no taste or smells of peculiar smell or chemicals. ?

Bullying situation

Generally, light dry sea cucumber's hair swell is between 2 and 3 times, and the weight gain is from 10 kg-16 kg. Moreover, the color of good light dry sea cucumber is darker after hair, and the color of inner ribs is milky white.

Several points for attention of sea cucumber.

1, look at the feet of sea cucumbers?

At present, there are two kinds of sea cucumbers in the market, one is wild sea cucumbers, and the other is artificially cultured sea cucumbers. Normal wild sea cucumbers are relatively large, very thick, and relatively few feet. However, if they are artificially cultured sea cucumbers, the feet will be less, and compared with wild sea cucumbers, the strength of the feet will not be so great. If they are fake sea cucumbers, the feet will be very few, because generally inferior sea cucumbers will exist.

2. Look at the sand mouth of sea cucumber?

First of all, let's explain wild sea cucumbers and cultured sea cucumbers. There will be some differences between these two kinds of sea cucumbers, that is, the sand mouth of wild sea cucumbers will be larger, harder and more complete. If it is processed, the high-quality sea cucumber sand mouth will be inverted, while if it is a poor quality sea cucumber or a fake sea cucumber, its sand mouth will look incomplete or inverted.

3. Feel the meat quality of sea cucumber?

We still need to know the difference between wild sea cucumber and artificial sea cucumber. No matter what form of sea cucumber, the meat quality of sea cucumber will be tight, but the feeling of wild sea cucumber will be harder, but if it is fake sea cucumber, the meat quality will be loose, which may be due to insufficient growth years or damage caused during processing. ?

4. Look at the shape. If it is a high-quality sea cucumber,

The shape is pointed at both ends and thick in the middle, but if it is a poor quality sea cucumber, then the shape of the sea cucumber may be worse, that is, it looks like the five senses are not right. ?

5. Look at the price?

The most direct way is to look at the price of sea cucumber. Generally speaking, the market price of fake sea cucumber will be relatively low, and many consumers just eat at the loss of taking advantage.