The difference between light dried sea cucumber and salt dried sea cucumber, teach you how to choose sea cucumber

Sea cucumbers are seafood with high nutritional value. More and more people eat sea cucumbers to nourish their bodies, especially pregnant women. However, many people do not know some common sense about sea cucumbers, and do not know the difference between light dried sea cucumbers and salt dried sea cucumbers. Today I will teach you how to choose sea cucumbers.

1. The difference between light dried sea cucumber and salt dried sea cucumber Pure light dried sea cucumber is that it is cooked with sea water only in the first cooking process during processing. It is directly dried in the sun. If it is salted sea cucumber, no matter how many times it is cooked, it is soaked in pure salt water after being cooked. Wait for the salt to crystallize on the sea cucumber and then dry it in the sun or do other treatments. This process can be as many as three to five times, that is, half a pound of light dried sea cucumber can be processed into one pound of salt dried sea cucumber.

2. Other processing methods of sea cucumbers In addition to being processed into salt-dried sea cucumbers, as time changes and people's needs change, there is now a phenomenon of sea cucumbers with added sugar and gelatin pretending to be lightly dried sea cucumbers.

3. Identification method of sea cucumber:

1 Smell Good sea cucumbers and any seafood must first be fresh and have a good fresh smell. This is the guarantee of freshness. If there are other abnormal smells such as gasoline smell, other smells are not normal.

2. Weigh it. A good sea cucumber feels light. If it feels heavy in your hand, it is not a dried sea cucumber but a processed sea cucumber.

3 licks A good sea cucumber doesn’t taste too salty or sweet, and it doesn’t stick to your tongue

4 Break it with your hands. If there is too much salt and it is fake and big, it will be easy to break or feel like a stone. If it is a good sea cucumber, it has a certain elasticity.

When buying sea cucumbers now, the key to looking at the number of heads is the size after being processed. If a sea cucumber does not expand to more than two and a half times its size before processing, there is a problem. The thickness of the meat should also be considered.