As a nourishing food with high price, sea cucumber has been walking on the dining table of many ordinary consumers, but for them, it is more cautious when buying because of its high price.
When consumers buy sea cucumbers, they have to face the hype of various sea cucumber products and businesses. How can they buy a good dry sea cucumber? Today we are going to talk about some skills of selecting sea cucumbers.
Generally speaking, when selecting sea cucumber, you should choose a complete ginseng, with straight thorns and no other damage on the surface of the ginseng. The knife edge left by sea cucumber cutting and washing is clean and tidy, and slightly everted. It can be seen from the knife edge that the meat of sea cucumber is firm and the meat wall is thick. These external characteristics can show that dry sea cucumber's quality is good.
It is very important for dry sea cucumber that the shape of sea cucumber is intact and the surface is not damaged. Some sea cucumbers have died or slightly autolyzed before processing, which may cause dry shape and surface damage after processing in dry sea cucumber. Consumers should pay attention to avoid such sea cucumbers when selecting them.
Generally speaking, the sea cucumber industry has certain standards for the processing technology of sea cucumbers, and the National Health and Family Planning Commission has also published dry sea cucumber food safety standards, so most sea cucumbers should meet the national standards.
From the color point of view, a good dry sea cucumber is generally dark brown, grayish black, gray or yellowish brown, and some surfaces have hoarfrost, and the color is even. In terms of smell, good dry sea only has the unique fresh smell of sea cucumber, and there is no other odor. However, the standard sea cucumber is full in shape, neat in incision, straight in spine and basically complete in shape.
In addition to the above characteristics, the dryness of sea cucumber is also a very important standard. Although it has no effect on salted sea cucumbers and ready-to-eat sea cucumbers, dry sea cucumber must be "dry". Whenever you touch the surface of ginseng, you can't feel sticky, it should be completely dry.
As a nourishing food widely loved by consumers, sea cucumber will naturally be targeted by some illegal traders. Some sea cucumbers are added with substances such as sugar or gelatin, and there are even some chemicals that are explicitly prohibited. Such sea cucumbers will harm the health of consumers and fail to achieve the purpose of nourishing.
Therefore, when buying sea cucumbers, we must carefully observe and remember several characteristics of dry sea cucumber that meet the standards, and at the same time, we should buy them from qualified shopping malls and brands that form a scale, so as to ensure the quality.