When you go to the supermarket to buy glutinous rice, do you usually buy round glutinous rice or long glutinous rice? To be honest, the mother did not know that there is round glutinous rice in the world until she met her friends in the north. The original dietary differences between the north and the south, in addition to the south people love to eat rice, the north people love to eat pasta, glutinous rice is also a difference.

1, southerners often eat long glutinous rice

Southerners often eat glutinous rice is long and sharp, glutinous rice is particularly fragrant, taste more chewy texture, water absorption is not so strong. We often use it to make glutinous rice and package dumplings, the texture is more Q-bouncy, the more you chew the more fragrant.

It is also because it is weak in water absorption, so the package of rice dumplings, steamed rice dumplings always have to spend most of the day long glutinous rice is also used to make the main raw material of the sweet wine wine, eat sweet wine wine wine, you will find that the inside of the glutinous rice grains are long stripes.

2, northerners mainly eat round glutinous rice

In the supermarkets of northerners, you can see that the glutinous rice is basically round, so that there is an advantage, it will not be like in the southern supermarkets, can only rely on the color of the rice to distinguish between it is rice or glutinous rice, because the south of the rice either glutinous rice or rice are long stripes.

The characteristics of round glutinous rice is that it is very soft and sticky, used to do the texture of glutinous rice is relatively soft, there are also people with round glutinous rice to do dumplings, round glutinous rice is very easy to taste, absorbent, very easy to cook. We often use glutinous rice flour is made of round glutinous rice. Some people will wonder why the same glutinous rice flour, some made dim sum will become hard after cold, but some will not, in fact, this is also because of the problem of glutinous rice varieties.

3, round glutinous rice and long glutinous rice nutritional value difference

Round glutinous rice and long glutinous rice are glutinous rice, in fact, in the nutritional value of the above is not a big difference, just the two taste, appearance and use of the above difference only. In general, want to make more chewy food, then you can choose long glutinous rice, want to soft texture with round glutinous rice.

The glutinous rice flour sold in supermarkets is usually made from round glutinous rice, while the glutinous rice flour bought by Douma in the south and used to make Xuemeiniang and soup dumplings will become hard the next day when eaten again, because the glutinous rice flour in the south is made from long glutinous rice, which is the best way to eat this kind of glutinous rice snacks as soon as possible.

4, in the supermarket how to pick glutinous rice

The difference between glutinous rice and rice is that the color of glutinous rice is a little whiter than rice, and less transparent. But here bean mom also found a more interesting thing, is that rice after cooking will become white rice, and glutinous rice cooked instead of becoming transparent, with the opposite of raw, we do not believe that if you usually cook rice can be studied.

The main smell of the selection of glutinous rice is whether the rice flavor, and then look at the grains of rice there are no traces of moths, the grains of rice there is no yellowing, with the hand pinch the glutinous rice, if it is very easy to pinch, then the glutinous rice is not very fresh, do not buy.

Sticky rice products are delicious, but friends with a bad stomach should eat less, because the sticky sticky rice is relatively strong, not well digested, and do not consume too many sticky rice products at once, otherwise it is easy to get indigestion.