At the end of April and the beginning of May is the harvest season of mulberry. Mulberry is sweet and sour, which has the effect of appetizing. But the skin of mulberry is uneven, there may be some small insects inside, so how to wash mulberry? Do you know the nutritional value and efficacy of mulberry?
How to wash mulberry
If you buy a lot of mulberry at home, you'd better wear gloves when cleaning, because the pulp of mulberry will exude purple pigment when it is damaged, and it will stick to your hands, so it's more troublesome to clean.
1. Flushing
Don't soak mulberry with clean water. It's better to wash mulberry with flowing water. In this way, the pesticide and dust left on the surface of mulberry can be taken away.
2. LiuDi
Many friends habitually remove the pedicel from the fruit and then clean the fruit. In fact, this cleaning method is wrong. If the pedicel is removed, the pulp will be damaged. When washing, the pesticide left on the surface of the fruit will inevitably seep into the pulp. So, don't remove the pedicel when cleaning the mulberry.
3. Brine bubble
Although mulberry do not use water bubble, but mulberry can use salt water bubble. Salt water has the function of sterilization. Soaking mulberry with salt water can kill the bacteria between the surface and the gap of mulberry. Pickled mulberry had better be washed again with water to avoid damaging the taste.
5. Flour washing
The flour is sticky after wet water, you can take a small amount of flour and mulberry to clean together, so that you can stick away the fine sand and mud between the surface gaps of mulberry.
6. Rice washing water cleaning
If you like mulberry with rice washing water, it is mainly to clean the pesticide on mulberry. Because the pesticide is acidic and the rice washing water is alkaline, acid-base neutralization happens to reduce pesticide residues.
Nutritional value of mulberry
1. Invigorating spleen and stomach and promoting digestion
Mulberry contains tannic acid, fatty acid, malic acid and other nutrients, which can promote the digestion of fat, protein and starch, so it has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach and helping digestion.
2. Black hair
Mulberry contains dark hair element, which can make hair more black and bright.
3. Bright eyes
Eating mulberry can improve eyesight and relieve eye fatigue.
The taboo of eating mulberry
1. Iron ware
Mulberry should not be stored in iron utensils, because mulberry will decompose acid substances and react with iron to cause poisoning, even death.
2. Children
Children should not eat more mulberry. Because mulberry contains more trypsin inhibitor tannic acid, this protease will affect the absorption of iron, calcium, zinc and other substances by the human body, and children's eating too much will affect their development.
Many people don't think it's necessary to wash mulberry so seriously. Indeed, if it's their own mulberry tree, or wild, just take water to flush it. However, if it is commercial cultivation, it should be washed carefully, because commercial cultivation will use pesticides in order to ensure the yield.