It's about Dragon Boat Festival. Every year, every family needs to make zongzi. Many people go to the supermarket to buy some zongzi leaves. How to choose zongzi leaves? What's the skill of choosing zongzi leaves? Don't buy dyed zongzi leaves.
the way to distinguish
1. Keep away from the colorful dried zongzi leaves
If there is no fresh Zongye in our area, then we will buy some dried Zongye, no matter reed leaf or other Zongye. As long as it is dried or dried, the color of Zongye will become dark, and we can't see the original bright green at all. The so-called rejuvenated Zongye will have a bright green color, which is very attractive to watch, but such Zongye will not be purchased, because there is no technical means to make the dried Zongye keep the original color, or even more vivid than the original.
2. Smell to distinguish
The really healthy and good Zongye can smell the fragrance of Zongye from afar, whether it's reed leaf or dried pineapple leaf. Pick up Zongye and smell it, there's no other smell, just the faint fragrance of Zongye, then such Zongye can be selected at ease. If you smell it, you will smell a very strong aroma, which is completely made by artificial, and there will be a smell of sulfur, or a smell of mildew, or even just a nice color but no fragrance of Zongye, then you must not buy it.
3. Identify by touch
When buying Zongye, we usually take two ways to distinguish the quality of Zongye: seeing and smelling. In fact, you can also distinguish it by hand. For example, when you touch the really healthy Zongye with your hand, you will feel that the normal dry Zongye is soft and soft, but the soft and hard feeling is not even at all. In this way, you should not buy Zongye as much as possible Most of these leaves are 'hands and feet moved'.
4. Pay attention to check whether it is old Zongye
The cost of Zongye itself is not high. Generally, some large businesses will not sell Zongye in the next year. However, it does not rule out that Zongye, which is overstocked in the next year's inventory, will be sold together with new Zongye. Therefore, when selecting Zongye, you should pay attention to check the color of a whole bundle of Zongye and smell whether some Zongye have a stale smell, such as Fruit a whole bundle of Zongye has such Zongye, so do not choose.
5. View the 'thickness' of Zongye
No matter what you buy is reed Zongye or dried pineapple Zongye, all these Zongye have their own thickness. If they are not processed too much, their thickness is not particularly symmetrical. This is a good understanding. The nature of Zongye is the same as that of tree leaf, which can not grow as thick as usual, but the processed Zongye is surprisingly consistent in thickness So this kind of Zongye is very suspicious.
6. Distinguish truth from falsehood after boiling
Although we can't use this method to identify the quality of Zongye when we buy Zongye, if we find something wrong with Zongye before making zongzi, we can know it earlier. The really healthy zongzi leaves, after boiled with clear water, will show a dark yellow color when boiled, while those green zongzi leaves, when boiled, will become light green or dark green, which is the result of using copper, arsenic, mercury and other chemicals' bleaching and dyeing 'zongzi leaves.
7. It's better to choose dry leaves instead of fresh ones
There are many areas that do not produce zongzi leaves, so many people like to buy some so-called vacuum packed fresh zongzi leaves to wrap zongzi, and feel that the zongzi wrapped by such zongzi leaves will surely taste better. In fact, you are wrong. Compared with the dried Zongye, the dried Zongye wrapped zongzi tastes better. What's more, you don't know about the sanitation of the fresh zongzi leaves in the packaging process. The weather is hot during the Dragon Boat Festival, and it's a good season for bacteria breeding. Once the fresh zongzi leaves are polluted, it's easy to eat bad.
8. Finally, I will teach you a way to identify healthy zongzi. Many people will not make zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. For one thing, zongzi itself is too sticky, eating too much is not good for the stomach and intestines. For another, there is no time and patience to make zongzi, so you will choose to buy several ready-made zongzi. When buying zongzi, don't look at the color of zongzi leaves. A really healthy zongzi presents a dark black or dark yellow color. It can't be that green color. If you smell it, healthy zongzi has a thick brown fragrance. Those zongzi with peculiar smell, such as unclear fragrance and sulfur flavor, should not be purchased. Zongzi wrapped with green leaves may cause copper poisoning directly after eating, so the possibility of death due to renal failure will increase.