As the saying goes, beef is cooked six times a catty. Therefore, in real life, as long as it is fresh beef without water injection, cooked beef should be about six taels per catty after processing and cooking, and then a catty of raw beef should be about two taels per catty. Therefore, to buy beef, we must first choose clean fresh beef without water injection.

Beef is rich in protein and amino acids. Chinese medicine believes that beef has the functions of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and stomach, strengthening bones and muscles, resolving phlegm and calming wind, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production.

Basic information

Take a look and see if there are any red spots on the skin. Those without red spots are good meat, and those with red spots are bad meat. Look at the muscles, the fresh meat is shiny, the red is even, and the inferior meat is slightly black; Look at the fat, the fat of fresh meat is white or light yellow, the fat of inferior meat lacks luster, and the fat of deteriorated meat is green.

Second, fresh meat has a normal smell, while inferior meat has an ammonia smell or a sour taste. Three touches: First, it feels elastic, fresh meat is elastic, the depression immediately recovers after finger pressing, the elasticity of inferior meat is poor, the depression recovers slowly or even cannot recover after finger pressing, and the deteriorated meat is inelastic; Second, feel the viscosity, the surface of fresh meat is slightly dry or slightly wet, and it does not stick to hands.