Soy sauce is an indispensable seasoning in daily stir-frying, but we will find that there are too many soy sauce categories in supermarkets, which is dazzling, and we don't know which soy sauce to choose.
Today I will share with you the skills of choosing soy sauce. As soon as you learn it, you can quickly pick out good soy sauce.
First, look at the quality rating inside the soy sauce label.
The quality grades of soy sauce are divided into special grade, first grade, second grade and third grade. Special level > level 1> level 2 > level 3. The higher the grade, the higher the content of the umami ingredients (flavored amino acids) of the soy sauce, and the better the quality. So when we choose soy sauce, we have to choose special soy sauce.
Take a chestnut: the following three types of soy sauce, soy sauce 1 has the highest quality grade and the best quality. Soy sauce 2 followed. Soy sauce 3 has the lowest quality grade and the worst quality.
Soy sauce 1
Soy sauce 2
Soy sauce 3
The second is to look at the ingredients in the ingredient list.
The traditional soy sauce ingredients are only soybeans, wheat, water and salt. Good soy sauce should only have these four raw materials, but now many manufacturers produce soy sauce itself fermentation process is not good or the fermentation time is too short, resulting in soy sauce flavor is not enough, will add a lot of additives into it. So looking at the quality of soy sauce depends on whether there are other additives in the ingredient list in addition to soybeans, wheat, water and salt.
Take a chestnut: In the following two soy sauces, there are many additives in the soy sauce 4 ingredient list, such as sodium glutamate (that is, monosodium glutamate), yeast extract, disodium inosinate and other fresheners, which are of poor quality. And the ingredient list of soy sauce 5 is very clean, without any additives, which is really good soy sauce.
Soy sauce 4
Soy sauce 5
Finally, let's summarize it again, and choose a good soy sauce to look at two main points:
1. Quality level, preferential selection of special grade soy sauce;
2. Ingredient list, the fewer additives in the optional ingredient list, the better, it is best to have none.