Buying winter jujube, bigger is not better
Winter jujube, also known as Bingtang jujube, is round and not slippery, a bit like a mini version of a small apple. When you take a bite, it is crunchy and sweet, and your mouth is full of juice. It can be instantly sweet from the tip of the tongue to the stomach. Winter jujube is a good thing. It contains 19 kinds of amino acids and multivitamins that the human body needs. It is really a very good fruit.
The season for a large number of winter jujubes has come, and friends who like to eat winter jujubes can make arrangements. However, winter jujubes are delicious and delicious. How to choose juicy, meaty and sweet winter jujubes also makes many friends worry. In fact, this is not difficult, as long as you master the correct purchasing method, anyone can become an expert in the eyes of fruit stall owners.
Today, Lazy Meow will teach you the easiest way to select delicious winter jujubes, all learned from old fruit farmers. Let’s take a look together.
Keep in mind 3 tricks, pick one of winter jujube
When buying winter jujube, keep in mind the following 3 tricks, look first, then touch and then taste, so that you can buy sweet and crunchy delicious winter jujube.
[One big trick for picking dates: look at the appearance]
First look at the color of the winter jujube: during the ripening process of the winter jujube, the color of the outer skin will gradually change from blue to red. Therefore, the color of a normal winter jujube should be red in the blue, or a little red in the yellow, which looks very natural; if If it is completely red, it means that it has been put for a long time, and the water is generally insufficient; if there is more green, it means that it is not cooked and the taste will be hard;
Look at the shape of the winter jujube: pick a winter jujube with a moderate size and a full fruit shape. The bigger the winter jujube, the better, the bigger the winter jujube, the peel is generally hard, the jujube meat is not crispy, and the taste is very bad.
[The second trick of picking dates: touch the hand]
Fresh and delicious winter jujube, the skin feels firm and smooth, crisp and elastic; if it feels soft, it may have deteriorated; if it feels sticky, don't buy it.
[The third trick for picking dates: taste the taste]
When buying winter jujube, with the consent of the fruit stall owner, we can take one and try it. If it tastes fresh and crisp, with a natural sweetness, it means that it is a good winter jujube.
3 ways to teach you to identify "saccharin winter jujube"
When buying winter jujube, we need to be more careful and avoid buying "saccharin winter jujube". The so-called "saccharin winter jujube" means that some black-hearted merchants soak the poor-quality winter jujube in saccharin to increase the sweetness and improve the color, so that they can sell for a good price. Our country's relevant food safety regulations clearly stipulate that sweeteners such as saccharin are not allowed to be added to fresh fruits.
These saccharin winter jujubes, let's first ignore the disadvantages of eating saccharin, just think that the winter jujubes used by merchants to make saccharin are inferior winter jujubes, and in the process of brewing, there are also hygiene problems, often eating these saccharin winter jujubes, definitely right The human body is not very good.
In fact, it is not difficult to identify saccharin winter jujube, you only need to remember the following 3 points:
Naturally ripe winter jujube, the green and red colors are very natural, and there is no obvious dividing line; saccharin winter jujube has a particularly obvious green and red dividing line, and the color is darker;
Naturally ripe winter jujube has a smooth and firm skin; saccharin winter jujube is sticky to the touch, and the peel is loose and wrinkled;
Naturally cooked winter jujubes have a natural crisp and sweet taste, and the peel has no taste; saccharin winter jujubes will feel that the skin is sweeter than the meat, although it is very sweet when you enter the mouth, but you will feel a little bitter afterward. If you soak these saccharin winter jujubes with water, the water may be sweet.
