As long as there is a market for one thing, there will be fakes. Take Ejiao for example. The Ejiao sold on the market is expensive, cheap, real and fake. Many fakes are hard to distinguish. But the false can never be true. As long as we master the method, we can see the true and false of donkey hide gelatin.
How to identify the authenticity of donkey hide gelatin cake
1. Look: the authentic donkey hide gelatin is a rectangular flat block in amber or brown black, with flat block shape, neat edges and corners, glossy surface, and the edge of the block is translucent when viewed through the light.
2. Shatter: donkey hide glue is a piece of glue made from donkey hide. It's crispy and can be broken by hand. And small pieces of donkey hide gelatin into hot water, half an hour will dissolve. Once the gelatine dissolved in hot water is refrigerated, it will form jelly.
3. Smell: after the donkey hide gelatin is dissolved in hot water, it will give off the gum fragrance, while the smell of fake donkey hide gelatin is fishy.
4. Slapping: when the table top is slapped forcefully by hand, it is true if the section of the fragment is brown, translucent and free of foreign matters. If it is soft but not broken, it is suspected to be a fake.
5. Tortoise glue and deer glue are similar in appearance to donkey hide gelatin. They should also be identified: Tortoise glue has a brown slightly greenish surface with a yellow 'oil head' on it, which is as clean as amber and hard as light; deer glue has a black brown surface, which is translucent as light, with a yellow white porous thin layer on one side, which is brittle and fragile, with a red brown cross section and glass luster.
How to distinguish the true and false of donkey hide gelatin cake
Step 1: prepare the donkey hide gelatin cake. The authentic product is glossy and the color is bright.
Step 2: put it in hot water and wait for 2 minutes
Step 3: it melted in 2 minutes.
Step 4: observe the red color of the authentic soup after melting, and the raw materials are clearly visible.
Step 5: good donkey hide gelatin cake will have drawing phenomenon. When the temperature is appropriate, a large number of drawing will be produced when the donkey hide gelatin cake is torn.
Which physique people are not suitable to eat donkey hide gelatin
1. A person with heavy dampness and evils
It can be manifested as dry mouth, sticky mouth, fatigue, dizziness or head confusion, abdominal distention, and poor stool. The important thing is that the tongue coating is thick and greasy, or white or yellow.
2. People who love fire
For example, if people with heart fire, liver fire, lung fire, or even Yin deficiency and fire use only donkey hide gelatin, there will be more and more cases of deficiency without compensation, and the fire will become larger and larger.
3. People with wounds can't eat it
Ejiao can activate blood circulation, so if there is a wound, you can't eat it immediately, and then eat it when the wound is scarred, or the wound won't get up.
4. People with congestion
Dark skin color, pigmentation, prone to ecchymosis, dull lips, dark or petechial tongue, purplish or thickened sublingual collaterals, and astringent veins. Women often have bad menstruation, generally delayed, blood clots, stomachache, black color, short transfusion on the body, etc
5. Spleen deficiency
That is to say, people with low digestive function are mainly characterized by lack of food, loose stools or runny stools after being dried first, lassitude and fatigue, and yellow complexion. Although there is no regulation of spleen deficiency can not eat donkey hide gelatin, but the sticky texture of donkey hide gelatin is easy to hinder the function of spleen and stomach, especially for the patients with spleen deficiency, qi stagnation and less abdominal distention. If you have to eat it, you need to mix it with Qi regulating drugs to restrict the greasy nature of donkey hide gelatin.