It's strawberry season again. Not only can we see it everywhere in the market, but also picking strawberries has become a super popular outdoor activity. The bright red, sweet and sour strawberry is a kind of fruit with good color, fragrance and inestimable nutritional value. However, although strawberries are good, they are very delicate. They are naturally susceptible to pathogens and need to be soaked in pesticides. It's really love and fear. This is not true. Recently, a wechat with a picture and a truth spread wildly in the circle of friends, "the advice of a bee farmer: cherish being sick and stay away from strawberries." it said that strawberry growers gave strawberries hormone poison at night, and bees hung up one after another after staring at strawberries, which made people suspicious. Strawberry season, how to eat happy and safe?
Don't eat strawberries too much at a time
Strawberry is sour and sweet with refreshing smell and high nutritional value. According to the compendium of Materia Medica, strawberries can moisten the lung, strengthen the spleen, replenish blood and replenish qi. For the elderly, children and people with body deficiency, strawberries are a good tonic. However, strawberries are cool and not suitable for eating too much at a time. Otherwise, the intestines and stomach will be too cold and uncomfortable. Generally, it is not more than 10-20 strawberries per time. Children should be given less.
How to choose strawberries?
In general, the higher the sugar content of fruit, the more delicious it is, but the sugar content can not be distinguished only from the appearance. Choose a moderate strawberry. Such strawberries are usually not 'hollow' and are rich in water. It should be noted that the appearance of over mature strawberries is partially blackened, so it is difficult to guarantee the freshness. It's best to choose about eight mature, red but not soft strawberries, which have the best taste. In other words, we should adhere to the "three no" principle in selecting strawberries: we should not select the deformed ones, the ones with a particularly big head, or the ones with a particularly red color. It is best to choose the fruit with symmetrical shape, natural red color and a small circle of pale white at the root and leaves. These strawberries can be kept in the refrigerator for two or three days.
How to clean strawberries correctly?
Strawberry appearance is uneven, the skin is very thin, a little force will be damaged, so it is difficult to clean. To clean strawberries, first, rinse them with running water for several minutes to remove most of the bacteria, pesticides and other pollutants on the surface of strawberries. Soak the strawberries in rice washing water (the first rice washing water should be used) and light salt water (half spoon salt in a basin of water) for 3 minutes. Then the running tap water is used to clean the rice washing water, light salt water and the residual harmful substances. Rinse it with clean water (or cold boiled water).
In addition, it should be noted that do not remove the strawberry pedicels before washing strawberries, so as to avoid the penetration of pesticides and pollutants into the fruit through the 'wound' during the soaking process, which will cause pollution.