Recently, a consumer bought several boxes of Dalian Liao prickly cucumber and found that all of them were fake sea cucumbers after returning home. The color of the real sea cucumber was brownish, brownish-black, and the color was more uniform, while the two heads of the fake sea cucumber were all closed, and the stomach was empty inside.

1, with the body shape and color of the sea cucumber, but no sea cucumber mouth and internal organs, it is these "sea cucumbers", to find insiders to identify the discovery of artificial sea cucumbers. According to industry insiders, artificial sea cucumber manufacturing methods, the most common is to use seaweed powder and gelatinous substances, counterfeiters in order to make the "sea cucumber" more elastic, usually add gelatinous substances, and these gelatinous components are complex, it is best not to eat.

2. Then soak it in water, and it will lose its color. After soaking in warm water, it turns out to be a gelatinous body, which is not edible at all. These "sea cucumber" spines are particularly neat, with a touch of the hand, the elasticity is not good, especially soaked in the water of the one, with a touch of the hand, "spines" even fall off. The water in the bowl also gradually changed color, and finally turned reddish-brown. Insiders also revealed that, in addition to creating the appearance of sea cucumbers, in order to be realistic, counterfeiters will also give fake sea cucumbers color, so that the sea cucumbers black and shiny.

3. Experts provide some methods for consumers to identify the real and fake sea cucumbers: the color of real sea cucumbers is brown, brown-black, and the color is more uniform. Artificial sea cucumbers are shiny black in color and lose their color when they are soaked in water; real sea cucumbers have different lengths of spines, no mutilation and no damage on the surface. Artificial sea cucumber spines are not elastic to the touch, too neat and easy to be damaged; even if a real sea cucumber is emptied of its internal organs, tendon traces will still remain on the inner wall. Artificial sea cucumber is smooth and free of traces inside, both ends are closed, no opening.