As a representative variety of "medicine and food homology", wolfberry is widely used in food, beverages, health care products and other fields. However, the wolfberry, which looks full of grains and bright red color, hides an unknown secret behind it, which has a huge food safety hazard and threatens the health of consumers.
According to CCTV Finance and Economics, in Jingyuan County, Gansu Province, the wolfberry planting area here is about 280,000 mu, covering 14 townships and towns in the county. In order to ensure the "quality" of wolfberries and sell them for more money, the merchants who buy wolfberries will give wolfberries "smoked sulfur".
Some merchants said that after the fresh wolfberries are picked, they should also be washed with sodium alkali water first, so that the dried fruits will be bright and beautiful. But if it rains, even if it is a sodium washed wolfberry, the quality is difficult to guarantee. At this time, the only way to do this is to "smoke the sulphur".
In order to save costs, some merchants use industrial sulfur. Industrial sulfur cannot be used in food processing, is toxic, and contains a large amount of arsenic, which is easy to cause renal insufficiency and failure, polyneuritis, and liver damage.
Teach you to choose high-quality goji berries
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How to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of wolfberry?
You need to memorize this mantra
That is, "one look, two grips, three smells, four tastes, five bubbles"
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One look: look at the color, the shape
Color: Normal wolfberries are mostly dark red, and the color will not be very uniform, while dyed wolfberries are beautiful bright red. Pick up the wolfberry and look at the navel, the normal wolfberry is white, the wolfberry smoked with sulfur is yellow, and the dyed wolfberry is red.
Shape: Ningxia wolfberry included in the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" is oblate and round, and the particles are not very large.
Second grip:
Grab a handful of wolfberries in your hands, normal and high-quality wolfberries have good dryness, and each grain is separated independently and will not stick together. While a humid environment will make goji berries soft, they won't be particularly soft. The processed wolfberries are a little sticky to the touch, and the color loss is serious.
Three smells:
Grab a handful of goji berries and cover them in your hand for a while, or put them in a plastic bag to seal them for a while, then smell them with your nose. If there is a pungent smell, it means that the goji berries may have been smoked with sulfur, and you must be careful when buying.
Four tastes:
Chew a few wolfberries in your mouth, Ningxia wolfberries taste sweet, but there is a slight bitterness after eating, Qinghai wolfberries are sweeter than Ningxia wolfberries. The wolfberries soaked in alum will have the bitter taste of alum when chewed, and the wolfberries smoked with sulfur taste sour, astringent, and bitter.
Five bubbles:
Put a few wolfberries into warm water, high-quality wolfberries are not easy to sink, the floatation rate is high, and the color of the water is pale yellow or orange-red. The dyed wolfberry soaked water is red, and the sulfur smoked wolfberry water is still clear and transparent.
How to eat wolfberries is more healthy
The wolfberries were chosen
How should I eat it?
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01 Chew directly:
Chewing is the easiest way to do it, and the nutrients are easily absorbed well and have an acceptable taste. However, it should be noted that excessive consumption of wolfberries is easy to catch fire, so the daily consumption should not exceed 20 grams.
02 Soak in water to drink:
Soaking wolfberries in water is the most commonly used way to partially absorb nutrients. When soaking in water, the water temperature should not be too high and the time should not be too long, and too high water temperature is easy to destroy the nutrition of wolfberry.
03 Porridge and soup:
Boiling porridge and soup with wolfberries is a more suitable way for winter. When boiling porridge and soup, adding a little wolfberry not only increases the taste of food, but also promotes nutrient absorption. Note that wolfberries should not be stewed for a long time, as high temperature will affect their active ingredients, so it is recommended to add them before cooking.
Source丨CCTV Finance and Economics, People's Daily Online, First Instance, Luo Jie, Second Instance, Gao Qianhua Third Trial, Zhuo Zhihua Production丨Zhangjiajie
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