How to buy real Ejiao cake? smell
The real Ejiao cake has a faint gum fragrance. After all, it is made of donkey skin, accompanied by the sweetness of red dates, medlar and walnuts, which makes people have an appetite. The fake donkey-hide gelatin cake has a pungent smell, and the red dates and walnuts in the donkey-hide gelatin cake have a moldy taste.
Taste test
The real Ejiao cake has a certain rubber texture, but it is not the kind that needs constant chewing. Jujube, medlar and walnut in Ejiao cake are easy to swallow, without any musty and other flavors, and the gum flavor in the mouth is lasting and very comfortable. The fake Ejiao cake is very elastic and even needs to be chewed constantly. Everyone else in it has a feeling of being out of date or inferiority.
Look at the price
There are more than 2,000 Jin of Ejiao in the market, and a donkey skin can only boil out about 2 Jin of Ejiao, which shows the preciousness of Ejiao. In addition, the prices of Xinjiang jujube, Ningxia wolfberry, walnut, black sesame, yellow wine and earth rock sugar are not low, and the prices are all lower than the market cost price, which is naturally unbelievable. Therefore, when buying Ejiao cake, you must not have the mentality of taking advantage of small things. Buy a donkey-hide gelatin cake to take advantage of it, buy a fake one.