Sea cucumbers have many benefits for our bodies. Many people also like to eat sea cucumbers, but what should we pay attention to when choosing sea cucumbers? What are the tips for buying sea cucumbers? Let’s take a look. Tips for selecting sea cucumbers. Tips for selecting sea cucumbers
1. Appearance: Dried sea cucumbers processed according to the standard process of dried sea cucumbers have a neat appearance. Their color is dark gray or gray, and some are yellowish brown, with the body surface color ranging from dark to light. The body shape is complete and correct, the individuals are uniform, the size is basically the same, strong and shiny, the thorn tips are straight and complete, the mouth has little or less limestone exposed, the incision is small, clear and neat, and the ginseng feet under the abdomen are dense and clear.
2. Feel: Dried sea cucumbers are hard and difficult to break apart, and are light in weight. Put the dried sea cucumbers in the palm of your hand and you should feel that they are light and not falling down. It will feel like charcoal when you knock it. The earth is elastic and has echoes, which is of the highest quality. If there is a heavy feeling when the hand is weighed, and there is no elasticity or echo when struck or thrown on the floor, it may be that the sea cucumber is not dry enough or there are additives inside.
3. Smell: The smell of dried sea cucumbers should be pure. Good sea cucumbers smell delicious and have no other odor. Although this step is a bit useless, because most people may not know what the pure taste of sea cucumber should be like, but after doing it many times, everyone will make a basic judgment by themselves.
4. Swelling rate: The above three steps can only be regarded as a preliminary screening of dried sea cucumbers. To make an accurate judgment, we need to buy a small amount of sea cucumbers and soak them again: see the hair growth rate. Increase rate! Don’t be too troublesome, this step cannot be omitted. How to correctly select dried sea cucumbers
Point 1: From the perspective of price, sea cucumbers purchased at low prices must be fake sea cucumbers or sea cucumbers with very poor quality, but this is not absolute. You need to distinguish this yourself.
Point 2: From the color point of view, the general dried sea cucumbers are white in color, while those that look black and shiny, although they look very good on the surface, may be inferior in quality. Poor sea cucumbers, such as sugar-dried sea cucumbers. Sugar-dried sea cucumbers contain a lot of harmful substances inside, so people cannot eat them in large quantities.
Point 3: From the appearance point of view, the main thing is to look at the legs of the sea cucumber. The fewer legs, the longer the growth period of the sea cucumber, the better the quality will be. Then look at the distribution of the sea cucumber legs. If the sea cucumbers are too evenly distributed, they may be artificial sea cucumbers.
Point 4: Judging from the cuts, the cuts of dried sea cucumbers are irregular and white in color. If there are black or other colors inside, it may be dried sea cucumbers of poor quality. .
Point 5: From the taste point of view, high-quality dried sea cucumbers will taste chewier after being soaked, while if they are poor-quality dried sea cucumbers, their meat will be looser. .