1, okra is poisonous
A okra is non-toxic.
The okra itself is non-toxic, but okra is a highly nutritious plant, containing a lot of protein and sugar, and mature season in the hot summer and autumn season, therefore, okra is very easy to corruption and deterioration of the crispy okra if there is a slight trauma will soon oxidize black, this okra has a certain degree of toxicity.
2, okra how to buy
(1) look at the length
By your middle finger. The smaller the okra the more tender, usually picked 3~5 days after the flower sheds, delayed picking crude fiber increases will lose food value. Length 5 ~ 10 cm for the best (human middle finger is generally about 8 cm long, can be used as a reference), and then long okra is only suitable for seed or as feed.
(2) pinch hard and soft
Pinch gently with your hand, feel not hard, a little tough for good. The harder the okra the older, the seeds inside have been hard and stagnant mouth, and meat fibers have been too much to eat up the unique flavor and tenderness of the texture.
(3) check the surface
Should be flat and wrinkle-free, no spots and scars. The color is uniform and bright, green okra to natural bright green is good or with a little tender yellow is preferred. Surface wrinkled or discolored is not fresh. If the color is dark and dry, it is old. Okra's surface has a layer of fine hairs, is a sign of freshness, such as if each ridge on the fluffy hairs are in, that has not been squeezed.
(4) Smell the fragrance
Fresh okra has a natural fragrance, like the smell of grass when it rains. Older and less fresh okra lacks a clean scent.
(5) Hand scratching is broken
The method is tried and true for fruits and melons - a fingernail gently scratched, broken and juicy is the freshest.
3, pick okra to pay attention to what
1. okra is easy to rot and spoilage, therefore, the purchase of the need to carefully identify, there are traumatic best not to buy, will accelerate the corruption.
2. Okra harvest period is short, after the picking period will be quickly aging, therefore, when buying the best is to buy crisp, can be preserved for a few more days.
3. The smaller the okra, the more tender it is, and a length of 5 to 10 centimeters is the best. Gently pinch it with your hand and feel that it is not hard and a bit tough. The surface is full of brightly colored, hairy ridges are good.
4, okra how to save
Low-temperature preservation
Okra maturity period of hot weather, respiration is very fast, so okra is best to buy the same day the same day to eat, if there is not eaten, can be used to dry cardboard box, put into the temperature of the refrigerator at 7 ~ 10 ℃ preservation, can be preserved for about 10 days! It can be kept fresh for about 10 days.
Note: Never let raw okra get wet, otherwise it will rot fast.
5, eat okra notes
1. Okra is cold food, contains a lot of cold, therefore, cold body and menstruation of women is not suitable for excessive consumption, so as not to cause spleen and stomach cold, uterine cold menstrual cramps and other conditions.
2. Okra contains a lot of mucus protein and surface velvet, all of which belong to allergens, therefore, allergic people are not suitable for consumption.
3. Okra is easily corrupted and spoiled, spoiled okra contains amines, which are toxic, therefore, blackened okra should not be consumed.
6, okra dietary taboos
1, not eaten with cold food
Okra flavor: light; cold.
The okra itself is a kind of cold food, consume too much or spleen and stomach cold people eat it is easy to cause gastrointestinal reactions, resulting in discomfort, so okra is best not to eat with cold food, and can not eat too much.
2, do not eat with which staple food
Okrai on the table as a vegetable to eat, because okra cold, so in the staple food on the choice of some hot food is better, okra and hot staple food to eat together, can be properly adjusted to the coldness of the okra, so as not to cause the coldness of the spleen and stomach.
Cold staples include: corn (millet), wheat, barley, buckwheat, Job's tears, mung beans.
3, do not eat with which meat
Okraut cold, belonging to the cold food, so in the okra should not be with other cold, cool meat food has been cooking or eating together, easy to lead to the spleen and stomach cold, causing diarrhea and other discomforts.
Cool meat: buffalo meat, duck, rabbit, horse's milk, frogs (frogs), fish, abalone.
Cold meats: duck eggs (slightly cold in nature), horse meat, otter meat, crabs, sea crabs, clams (sand clams, sea clams, and clams), oyster meat, snails, earthworms, field snails (very cold), snails, mussels, clam meat (river clams), oysters, and octopus.
4, do not eat with which vegetables
Okraut itself belongs to the cold food, so eating okra is best not to eat other cool, cold vegetables.
Cool vegetables: tomatoes (slightly cool), dry celery, watercress, eggplant, rape, kohlrabi, wild rice, amaranth, marjoram, chrysanthemum brain, spinach, lettuce (lettuce), cauliflower, Chinese wolfberries, artemisia japonica, tofu (bean curd, dried tofu, bean curd milk), gluten, lotus root, winter melon, melon, squash, cucumber, sea cress (wakame), mushrooms, enoki mushrooms.
Cold vegetables: cucumber (slightly cold), amaranth, water spinach (cabbage), mullein (watercress), Brasenia schreberi, hairy greens (longbeard), Houttuynia cordata, bamboo shoots (slightly cold), gourd, chayote, kelp, purslane, seaweed, geoduck, straw mushrooms, bitter gourd, water chestnuts.
5, do not eat with which fruits
After eating okra stomach is more in a cold state, it is not advisable to eat cold, cold fruits, easily lead to indigestion and diarrhea.
Cool fruits: apples (sex slightly cool), pears, rutabagas, oranges, strawberries (sex slightly cool), mango, loquat, Luo Han Guo, diamond, lotus seed core, lily.
Cold fruits: persimmon, persimmon cake, grapefruit, banana, mulberry, peach, fig, kiwi, sugar cane, watermelon, melon (melon).
6, other cold, cool food
In the consumption of okra should pay attention to avoid some other cold, cool food consumption, especially in the consumption of cold, cool tea should not be consumed.
Cool food: green tea, honey, royal jelly, hops, acacia flowers (acacia rice), chrysanthemum, mint, fat sea water, white peony, salvia, American ginseng, cassia seeds.
Cold foods: soy sauce, pasta sauce, salt, honeysuckle, bitter melon tea, bitter tea, thatch root, reed root, alum.