What are the new year's products in 2013? With the coming of the Spring Festival, every family has begun to work hard on the selection of new year's products. Of course, the daily meat is indispensable. Today, let's share how to choose healthy meat.
pork
Fresh meat: white fat, glossy muscle, uniform red color, slightly dry or slightly wet appearance, with finger pressure on lean meat depression can immediately restore, good elasticity, and has a unique smell of fresh pork.
Not fresh meat: less fat and luster, slightly dark muscle color, dry appearance or some sticky hands, wet new section, depression after finger pressing can not be restored immediately, poor elasticity, slightly ammonia or sour taste.
beef
Look at the color: fresh meat muscle luster, red uniform, fat white or light yellow; deteriorated meat muscle color dark, no luster, fat yellow green.
Touch viscosity: the appearance of fresh meat is slightly dry or has air drying film, which is not sticky to hands and has good elasticity; the appearance of deteriorated meat is sticky or extremely dry, and the new section is sticky, and the depression can not be restored after finger pressing, leaving obvious indentation.
Smell: fresh meat has the smell of fresh meat; deteriorated meat has peculiar smell or even bad smell.
Differences between old and tender beef: the color of old beef is dark red, and the meat is coarse; the color of tender beef is light red, and the meat is firm, fine and elastic.
How to distinguish fresh meat from cooked meat
Look at the packaging. The packaged products should be sealed without damage. It's better not to buy cooked meat products in bulk.
Look at the label. The product package shall be marked with product name, factory name, address, production date, shelf life, product standard, ingredient list, net content, etc.
Look at the production date. We should try our best to select products produced in the near future.
The storage temperature requirements should be clearly understood, especially in the high temperature season in summer.
One time purchase quantity of cooked meat products should not be too much. Meat products that have been opened must be sealed. It is best to keep them in the refrigerator and eat them as soon as possible.
Editor's note: it's very important to choose fish every year. It's better to choose fresh fish species to see how much mucus the surface of fish is, whether it has peculiar smell, and whether it has elasticity. If it has abnormal taste, it's not fresh fish species after pollution.