Why is pineapple soaked in salty water? How to choose pineapple? It's the season of pineapple fragrance right now. Pineapple looks emerald and golden scale, no wonder it has another name of pineapple; it smells and smells all over the room; it tastes sweet and sour and juicy when eaten into the mouth; on nutrition, it contains almost all the vitamins and 16 kinds of natural minerals needed by the human body, not only to relieve greasiness and digestion, according to compendium of Materia Medica, it also has the functions of relieving thirst, relieving boredom, sobering up wine and promoting qi.
Chunky pineapple is sweet and fragrant
Pineapple is so good. It's not enough to buy the instant pineapple block that has been polluted by dust and bacteria. How to pick pineapple?
There are three popular ways to choose pineapple: first, look at the color. The leaves of ripe pineapple are usually green brown. If you want to eat it on the same day, you can buy the scallop orange and the nine minute ripe pineapple. If you eat it two days later, you can buy the bright yellow and the two ends with green luster. This is generally the eight minute ripe pineapple. Secondly, touch the hardness and gently press the pineapple scale. What Microsoft has flexibility is that it has a better maturity. What is hard is not ripe. If you press out the juice, it is ripe and rotten. You'd better not buy it. Finally, smell the taste. The ripe pineapple can smell a light fragrance from the skin. After being cut, it is even more fragrant. If the pineapple is not cut, it is fragrant, which means it is cooked.
Now the market is mainly Hainan pineapple and Guangdong pineapple, Hainan pineapple is more delicious. Therefore, there are three new ways to choose pineapple: one is to choose 'short and fat man', Hainan pineapple is generally medium-sized, short and fat, more than the thin and long Guangdong pineapple meat; the other is to choose 'long hair and big eyes', Hainan pineapple generally has long leaves, less and large bud eyes; the third is to choose' thick heart ', look at Pineapple base, if it is relatively thick, it means that it is a thick core Hainan pineapple with sweet taste.
Half an hour in brine
Pineapple has a kind of protease. If it is eaten directly, it will stimulate the oral mucosa, make people's lips numb, itch or even swelling. If it is eaten directly, it will cause diarrhea, vomiting or headache.
Therefore, before eating pineapple, you must use light salt water. The best soaking time is half an hour. If the time is not long enough, bromelain has not been completely destroyed, and children with tender oral skin are particularly prone to allergies. Too long time is not good, will cause excessive loss of nutrition, and pineapple rich in sugar, bubble for a long time easy to breed bacteria.
In addition, the pulp can also be boiled and cooled before eating. More than 90% of bromelain was destroyed at 100 ℃. The whole taste of bromelain is softer after boiling than that of salted water. It's more delicious to put some sugar in the refrigerator and freeze it. Of course, it's also very important to master the amount of food. Generally, it's better to eat about two liang, at most half of them.
Add pineapple to vegetables to relieve greasiness
Pineapple into the vegetables is not only greasy, but also both color and taste. Here is a brief introduction of pineapple rice and pineapple goo pork.
Pineapple Rice: 1. Cut the pineapple in half, dig out the pulp, and leave the peel as a container. 2. Dice pineapple, ham and onion. 3. Break up the eggs and stir fry them in the wok. Stir fry the onion and ham. Stir fry the rice. 4. Finally add pineapple, stir fry, add a little salt and sesame oil to taste. 5. When out of the pot, put it in the pineapple shell and bake in the oven for a few minutes. If you don't have an oven, you can eat like this.
Cut the lean meat into small pieces, marinate with salt, pepper, starch and oil for 30 minutes, cut the pineapple and green pepper into pieces, shred the onion, and mix the tomato sauce, cooking wine, salt, sugar and vinegar into the sauce. 2. Mix the marinated meat with eggs, wrap the flour and fry until it is 8 mature, and then fry it into golden yellow. 3. In another oil pan, saute onion and green pepper. Stir fry in the sauce. Thicken the green pepper after it is cooked. 4. Put the fried meat and pineapple into the pot together, stir fry twice until they are well mixed, and pour some oil on them. (Chen Xiafei, chief nutritionist, nutrition department, East China Hospital, Shanghai)