Bird's nest has many advantages, which can nourish the body and lose weight healthily. It's the favorite of many women. But in recent years, some illegal vendors have been using inferior bird's nest to replace inferior bird's nest, and using fake bird's nest to confuse the market of bird's nest. How to distinguish the true bird's nest from the false bird's nest?
How to distinguish the true from the false of bird's nest
The bird's nest market is deep and the counterfeiting technology is also developing day by day. As the saying goes, "know yourself and know your enemy to win every battle". Only when we know the counterfeiting routine, can we not be affected by the routine, so as to select the authentic high-quality bird's nest.
1. Bleached bird's nest
The bleached bird's nest is obviously white from the naked eye, and there is no gradual change and layering on the color, which can be seen at a glance. So for those carefully camouflaged, we can take out the bird's nest by submerging it in water, and rub it with thumb and index finger several times after half a minute. The fingers will smell of chemicals. In addition, the bleached bird's nest stew has little swelling rate, is easy to be hydrated, and has no unique natural egg white flavor of bird's nest.
2. Gummed bird's nest
In the process of making bird's nest into a lamp, it will go through the process of artificial hair picking, so there will be small holes on the surface. Some businessmen will paint food, such as cassava powder, fish glue powder, eggs, gum, paste, etc. on the surface of the bird's nest through these small holes. The bird's nest looks bright and thick, especially the bottom of the bird's nest will be very thick and hard to break. We can immerse the bird's nest in water to remove it. After half a minute, rub it with your fingers several times. The authentic bird's nest should be smooth, while the painted bird's nest will be sticky because of the paint. In addition, the protein content of the natural bird's nest is as high as 50%, so it smells like egg white, while the glue coated bird's nest smells like chemicals.
3. Bird's nest
The bird's nest can be divided into three categories according to the nest building swallow: Official swallow, feather swallow and grass swallow. Guanyan is the best bird's nest. Its nutritional value is higher than that of Maoyan and Caoyuan. But because there is a net of bird's nest strips in the concave surface of bird's nest, the bad merchants will replace them with similar shape of bird's nest strips. How to tell? The bird's nest is made of pure saliva, so there are few impurities, and the color is yellowish. If you watch it in the light, it will be translucent. After adding water, it will become soft, and it will expand 7-8 times. The feather and saliva are used to build nests. The grass swallows like to build nests with the weed and saliva. Therefore, there are a lot of impurities, the color is dark, almost opaque, the water absorption is weak, and it doesn't swell after soaking. Bird's nest selection requires careful observation and familiarity with all kinds of fake making routines. Choose a high-quality bird's nest and head for the vest line.
How to make bird's nest delicious
Materials: 1 / 4-1 / 2 papaya, 30-50g bird's nest, 50g sugar.
Methods: 1. Wash the outer skin of papaya, cut it open with a knife, remove the core, dig out the papaya meat with a spoon, and reserve.
2. Soak the bird's nest in clear water. After about 30 minutes, pour out the water. Then add in clear water to soak the bird's nest for another hour and a half. Then take out the bird's nest and put it into the stew cup together with papaya.
3. At the same time, use the water soaked in the bird's nest for the second time to boil and dissolve the crystal sugar, pour it into the stew cup filled with bird's nest and papaya meat while it's hot, cover it, stew for two hours in water, and drink it after it's warm.