Eating pineapple is like a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it is sweet in the mouth, on the other hand, the tip of the tongue hurts!
While eating pineapple, pineapple is eating you. Pineapple contains an enzyme called "bromelain" (or bromelain). Its advantage is that it can decompose protein, hydrolyze "muscle tissue" and help food digestion, but it will also produce "allergic reaction" to most people, stimulate oral mucosal cells and lips, and cause itching, redness and other discomfort.
Although the "bite" enzyme in pineapple is quite unpleasant, it still comes in handy! Because bromelain helps to break down muscle protein, many mothers will marinate the meat with pineapple before cooking, which can help soften the meat and make it more tender and delicious, especially suitable for sweet and sour cooking.
Chicken that dries easily and black pork with hard meat can be pickled with pineapple.
Most varieties of pineapple on the market have been improved, and the chance of scratching your tongue has actually been greatly reduced. However, because everyone's physique is different, the degree of reaction to allergies varies from person to person. If you are still worried about this uncomfortable situation, you can use the following small steps to prevent it:
There are two key points in handling the whole pineapple:
Don't get wet: Many elderly people share with fruit vendors that when you buy a whole pineapple to go home, remember not to rinse the pineapple with water before peeling and dicing, and keep the knife dry and free of residual moisture, so that the cut pineapple won't bite people. If you want to rinse the cut pineapple, you must use boiled filtered water to avoid being attacked by enzymes again.
When peeling pineapple, it is recommended not to flush it first. If you want to clean, you need to use filtered boiling water.
Peeling: Pineapple skin contains more enzymes than pulp, so it must be peeled. After peeling off the hard skin, remember to completely cut off the black fruits left in the pulp.
Use these two techniques to deal with peeled pineapples:
Salt soaking and salt coating: salt can inhibit the activity of pineapple enzyme, so after cutting pineapple, soak it in salt water (mixed with drinking water and salt) and you can eat sweet pineapple without scraping your mouth. In addition, the same effect can be achieved by smearing salt on the cut pineapple!
Soaking in salt water can prevent pineapple from scratching its tongue and remove astringency!
Cooked: High temperature heating will also destroy the activity of enzymes, so blanching pineapple in hot water or cooking it directly can also improve the situation of tongue biting! In addition, pineapple is resistant to cooking, and its vitamin C is not easy to be destroyed by high temperature, and it can also be cooked before eating.
If you want to use fresh pineapple to make pineapple shrimp balls and other cold dishes, you can quickly blanch them with hot water first.
In case the mouth has been scratched, you can drink filtered boiled water or rinse your mouth with boiled water to prevent enzymes from destroying cells in the mouth and relieve symptoms. In addition, in the next few days, we must also avoid eating irritating and spicy food and let the mucosa recover.