According to the salt content of sea cucumbers, they are classified as pure light dry sea cucumber, light dry sea cucumber, salt dry sea cucumber and sugar dry sea cucumber. The price of pure light dry sea cucumber is very high, which ordinary consumers can't afford, so unscrupulous merchants try their best to increase the weight of sea cucumber by pouring sugar and salt, and repeatedly cook the sea cucumber with saturated salt water, so that additives can enter the body of sea cucumber and form salt columns or sugar columns to achieve the purpose of weight gain.

So how do you distinguish between light drying and sugar drying? Actually, it's easy:

1, black and bright.

Sugar dry sea cucumber is wrapped in sugar, and the surface is round and full, showing black. Because it is wrapped in sugar, the sucker at the bottom of the sea cucumber can't be seen.

2. Feel the weight

The dried sugar is covered with thick sugar inside and outside the body, which is heavier in the hand than the pure dry sugar. You can also look at the broken plane by breaking it. The hollow sea cucumber is of high quality, and there is no gap in the sugar dry sea cucumber, which is filled with sugar and weighed.

3. lick your mouth

The surface of sugar dry sea cucumber is sweet. Of course, the dry surface of salt is salty. Is it easy?

So what does the high-quality pale dry sea cucumber look like? Pale dry sea cucumber has no additives, but only contains a little natural salt of sea cucumber itself. It feels very light and hard in your hand, and it is as hard as a stone no matter how hard you try. The surface of sea cucumber is obviously transparent, showing its own color, which is generally a religious color. Sea cucumbers produced in different sea areas have some differences in color. Look at the sucker on the belly of the sea cucumber. There are many dots, which is obvious. Smell it again, and you will smell a faint smell of sea water.