Pueraria lobata powder is divided into kudzu starch and kudzu root powder, and it is also divided into Ge Fen and cooked Ge Fen, and the prices are also different. Since Ge Fen is made of pueraria lobata, pueraria lobata is generally wild. If Ge Fen is made of wild pueraria lobata and is not doped with other powders, it should cost at least 100 yuan per catty. Wild plants are hard to find and dig, and the amount is small, so it is expensive. Pueraria powder is also available for tens of yuan, but there must be something else, or it is not wild.
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Second, how to distinguish the authenticity of wild pueraria lobata powder?
1, color
Wild kudzuvine root powder is yellow in color, while kudzuvine root powder doped with other impurities (such as lotus root starch or sweet potato powder) is white in color.
2. Taste
Pure kudzuvine root powder has a cool feeling and ginseng-like medicinal taste in the mouth; Even without sugar and honey, it has a faint taste. The kudzuvine root powder doped with impurities tastes slightly sweet or tasteless, and a few of them also add spices.
3. Texture
When you grind the pure pueraria lobata powder with your fingers, you can feel that there is crude fiber, which is relatively pure pueraria lobata powder. If it feels as delicate as starch when grinding, it means that it is doped with impurities.
4. State
Pure kudzuvine root powder will appear milky white milk when it is washed with warm water, and it will appear pale yellow transparent colloid after being heated with warm water or brewed with boiling water above 90 degrees, with high adhesion, and it can flow down evenly in a line after being stirred up with a spoon. If it is a transparent paste after being brewed with warm water, the color is white after being brewed, and it is difficult to flow down in a line, most of it is pueraria powder with other substances added.