Salt sea cucumber: The weight of sea cucumber is increased by salting the sea cucumber. Salt sea cucumber is usually covered with a layer of salt particles or salt, and no clear epidermis and feet can be seen. The state stipulates that the salt content should be below 50% and the moisture content should not exceed 12%. The quality of dried salt is good, and the amount of hair may reach about 5 times. However, some unscrupulous traders will salt the sea cucumber for many times to gain weight, resulting in nutrient loss during processing, and the nutrient residue is insufficient 10%, and the surplus nutrients are difficult to absorb!
Sugar dry sea cucumber: In the process of processing dry sea cucumber, sea cucumbers are soaked and dried in sugar, and the proportion of sugar in dry sea cucumber is increased, so as to reduce the price of sea cucumbers and save costs. This kind of sea cucumbers is called "sugar dry sea cucumber", and its processing method is basically the same as that of salted sea cucumbers, except that the salt used in pickling is changed into sugar. A large amount of sugar destroys the nutrition of sea cucumbers, resulting in almost no nutrition of such sea cucumbers!
As for how to identify, there are the following four points.
First, taste: dry sea cucumber has a faint fishy smell, salt dry sea cucumber is salty as the name implies, and sugar dry sea cucumber is sweet.
Second, burr: We all know that sea cucumber itself, like hedgehog, has many burrs. High-quality light thousand sea cucumbers are plump and plump, and look very stout. I feel that sea cucumbers are better when they are alive. However, the burrs on the surface of the very inferior sea cucumber with salt and sugar are small, and they shrink relatively short. Some sea cucumbers have lost their burrs, and sometimes they can be broken when they are scratched with hard objects to dry salt and sugar dry sea cucumber.
Third, look at the color: color is more important for distinguishing the advantages and disadvantages of sea cucumbers. Good light dry sea cucumber is taupe and sometimes slightly black, and the overall color is very good. And those inferior salt dry sea cucumber is pale white, sugar dry sea cucumber is dark black, even dry sea cucumber, the ginseng is a little soft. How can a sea cucumber of this color be safe to eat, so be optimistic about the color when buying it.
Fourth, the size: Many high-quality pale dry sea cucumber are strictly screened, so they are relatively large and even in size. The inferior sea cucumbers are all eliminated sea cucumbers, which are generally smaller. Please believe it.