Do you focus on the vegetable or medicinal properties when buying yams? Do you know how to recognize the real and the fake wai yam?

Yam can be used as medicine as well as an everyday food. There are many benefits of yam and the taste of yam is also good. So many people like to eat yam, of course, yam is also divided into good and bad, like to eat yam you can distinguish?

No matter which kind of yam you choose, you have to look carefully at its skin, the skin should be smooth and clean without abnormal spots in order to rest assured that you can buy. Good yam in addition to good epidermis, when cut, you can see more mucus, less water, you can see the fault is snow white. As for the dried yam, you should choose the one without black spots, white in color, smell no sour taste, and you can feel the powder by touching it with your hand.

Special attention should be paid to the dried yam also, the market sometimes appear fake dried yam, these fake dried yam is usually cassava impersonation. Although cassava also has some nutritional value, but it is not as good as yam, so how to identify the real and fake dried yam products?

One, look at the "heart line"

Yam slices in the middle of no "heart line", and cassava slices in the middle. The "heart line" is very small, so buy carefully look to see. There are some tapioca chips where the "heart line" will fall out, but there will still be a small hole left.

Second, look at the edge

The skin of yam is generally very thin, while the skin of cassava is much thicker. Some cassava grows so small that it is more trouble to take off the skin, so when it is peeled into dry slices, it will have a very visible skin. So the "yam" with thick skin on the dried slices is also fake.

Three, by feel

Yam dry slices will feel powder, feel more powder stick to the hand, and more delicate. Dried cassava flakes also have powder, but will feel very little powder, and feel more rough.

Four, cook and look again

This trick, although it does not seem to be useful, but you can avoid the next time you continue to buy the same fake yam. Yam is generally easier to cook and tastes a little rotten and powdery, while cassava is harder to cook and tastes harder.

In addition to the difference between iron stick yam and ordinary yam and the purchase of misunderstanding, remind everyone, when buying also need to avoid sprouting, moldy, blackened yam, so as not to have a certain harm to human health. Finally, Xiaokang wishes everyone good health!