While bird's nests contain a certain amount of nitrite, there is no need to worry too much about it. Realizing that the amount of nitrite in regular, natural bird's nests is only a small amount, as long as the method is proper, it is completely removable, so how do you remove nitrite from bird's nests? We will talk about it today.

To remove nitrite from bird's nest, soaking is very important. Mr. Chan Wah Keung, Professor of the Department of Life Sciences and Director of the Chinese Medicine R&D Center of HKUST, also said: Bird's nest is also a kind of food raw material, although it contains nitrates and nitrites, but it can be removed after proper treatment and stewing.

We soak the bird's nest not only to cover the bird's nest with water, but also to clean the bird's nest and remove the nitrite in the bird's nest. Because nitrite is soluble in water, the nitrite in the bird's nest will melt into the water during the soaking process.

But in the soaking process, you should pay attention to the following points

1, soak the bird's nest in the process of at least two changes of water, it is best to change the water every hour, so that it will be easy to water nitrites in time to deal with the removal of the more complete.

2, soak the bird's nest is to use with pure water, pure water is soft water, which does not contain a lot of minerals will not have a chemical reaction with nitrite, and ? Hard water will also affect the hairiness of the bird's nest. will also affect the hair of the bird's nest.

3. Soak the bird's nest in cool water, because hot water may destroy the nutrients and taste, wasting the bird's nest.

It seems that soaking bird's nest is not only an important step in bird's nest stewing, but also a key step in food safety. Now that we know that nitrites can be removed by soaking, how long can bird's nests be soaked to remove them completely?

Generally speaking, white bird's nests contain less minerals, so soaking for about 2-3 hours, with water in the middle, will be able to remove nitrite from bird's nests to ensure the safety of use; however, blood bird's nests are not allowed, the mineral content of blood bird's nests is very high, and the content of nitrites is also much higher than that of white bird's nests, so blood bird's nests are recommended to be soaked at least 1 night.

Natural bird's nest contains nitrite because of some natural reasons, so the content is not much, and through sufficient soaking is able to be removed, do not need to worry, so the most important thing is the quality of bird's nest, as long as it is a real bird's nest is not harmful to the body of the ingredients.