Longan meat, commonly known as guiyuan, refers to the dried fruit after the longan fresh fruit has been peeled and pitted. Longan is fleshy and fragrant, with a strong sweet and special taste. The surface is yellowish brown and translucent; the side near the peel is wrinkled and rough, close to the side of the seed coat, shiny and wrinkled.
In ancient China, longan meat was a valuable product of the tribute palace. The Ming Dynasty calligrapher and painter Song Yu described Guiyuan as "the golden color of the outer gun, the white jade skin in the middle, the broken arms are all on the plate, and the luminous pearls are everywhere." In addition, literati such as Huang Tingjian, Chen Daohe and other literati also praised the longan meat.
As a common medicinal herb to tonify the body, longan meat is very suitable for people to take daily. However, if you eat the longan meat that has been fainted with sulfur, it will not only destroy the human digestive tract and respiratory system, causing damage to the body, but also damage the liver and kidneys; eating longan meat mixed with sugar will greatly reduce its effect and affect the tonic.
Therefore, when eating longan meat, carefully identify:
First, look at the appearance: the longan meat mixed with white sugar looks moist; the color of the longan meat smoked with sulfur is white and looks good; the color of the real longan meat is yellow-brown.
Second, smell the smell: the real longan meat has a strong fragrance; the longan meat smoked with sulfur smells of sulfur.
Third, touch by hand: longan meat is processed and dried, generally will not be too dry, touch a little bit of hands; but mixed with sugar longan meat, grasp in the hand for a while, you can feel sticky.
Fourth, taste it yourself: The longan meat tastes strong and sweet and has a special taste; and the longan meat mixed with white sugar tastes very light and sweet.
The so-called things that enter the mouth must not be sloppy. Therefore, I hope that everyone will polish their eyes and buy a good product that meets their wishes.