Tips for choosing safety dry food

Tips FOR CHOOSING Safe Dry Food

Today, the situation of dry food fake, seasoned food is more and more popular. Not everyone knows how to choose dry foods such as dried fish, dried squid, dried bamboo shoots, dried shrimp ... so that they are delicious and safe.
Dried bamboo shoots, wood ear fungus, shiitake mushrooms, squid, shrimp ... are indispensable dry foods in the kitchen of every family. However, not everyone knows how to choose food so that it is delicious and safe, especially seasoning is increasingly popular. Here are some tips to help you make safe dry food choices.

1.Dried fish:

 

When choosing these dry foods, pay attention to their colors. Delicious dried fish is a kind of fish with clear yellow color that does not get wet, and when you pick it up, you can smell a slight fishy, ​​but do not hear a heavy smell.

If dried fish is cloudy in color and appears wet or brown spots, it is dry fish that has been left for a long time, you should not buy it because it is degenerated, not delicious.

2.Dried shrimp:

 

Dried shrimp is a very popular dried food and is often used in soup or salad. Delicious dried shrimp usually has the natural red pink color of shrimp such as brick glaze color, firm meat and no strong smell.

Do not buy shrimp with pale color or dark red color, with a strong smell because it may be stained when eaten, which is very harmful to health.

3.Dried octopus:

 

Dried squid is the common food that appears on the tables. Dried squid has prices ranging from a few hundred to several million depending on type. However, not everyone knows how to choose quality, quality dried squid.

If processed from fresh squid, the dried squid belly will be white, pink back with matte black dots of the ink skin. The dried squid is delicious, not fishy and not wet to the touch, the ink stubble is firmly on the body and has a pinkish white color.

In addition, should choose dried squid with a straight body, a thicker body will sweeten the meat when grilled.

4.Dried beef and buffalo:

 

Should choose beef, buffalo meat with a strong odor characteristic of the meat. When eating dried cows, buffalo are very tough and supple. This dry food requires strong force when torn. Standard dried beef and buffalo without preservatives can only be stored for 15 - 20 in the refrigerator.

Do not buy beef, dried buffalo meat at a cheap price because it will not guarantee the quality (1kg of fresh meat can only make 3 taels of dry meat).

5. Dried bamboo shoots

 

 

Delicious dried bamboo shoots are usually light brown yellow, amber in color and meticulously striped. The meat width is thick, soft, without too much fiber. You should choose a pork tongue shoots (shaped like a pig's tongue), with a medium size that will be both lean, and save you time when simmering.

The natural sun-dried bamboo shoots have the fanciful smell of the bamboo shoots while the sulfur-dried bamboo shoots will have a characteristic stinging smell of sulfur-soaked bamboo shoots, when smelling it will have a very characteristic SO2 (sulfur-like smell) smell. In addition, chemical soaked bamboo shoots are usually shiny, eye-catching, and never moldy.

6.Shiitake mushrooms and dried fungus

 

 

Choosing the dried shiitake correctly must pay attention to the following characteristics: mushrooms are button-shaped, have small legs, thick body, shiny yellow color, when touching is not wet, under the mushroom box there are white compartments arranged together. . When the water is soaked, the water is yellow, the aroma is mild, the mushroom blooms evenly and is chewy.

 

Dry ear fungus or is often called cat fungus, women should choose a wood ear fungus with large cotton ear, thin rim, shiny black and covered with a layer of velvet on the wings, light, dry, not hard. When soaked in the water, the wood ear blooms with a light yellow color, which is much larger and has a crisp aroma.

Hopefully the above article will help you know more tips for choosing safe dry food!