How to identify the quality of lotus seed?

Life has a lot of people like to eat lotus seed, lotus seed high nutritional value, is a superior tonic, with fire detoxification, brain-healthy role, is a good food for the summer cooling summer, but there are a lot of lotus seed on the market, some in order to make a profit, often post-processing, and through some means and make the lotus seed did not look very good, immediately changed the appearance, then how to identify the good and bad lotus seed?

How to distinguish between good and bad lotus seeds

1, appearance

Quality lotus seeds particles larger, uniform size, surface neatly without impurities, the color is light yellow, there is obvious luster. And some poor quality lotus seed is usually a little small, particle size is not particularly uniform, usually large and small, the surface is white, there is no obvious luster.

Lotus appearance comparison

2, taste

General quality of lotus seeds is easier to cook, flavor fragrant, put a mouth to chew will hear crunchy sound, eat the mouth after leaving a flavor. And some of the poorer quality of white lotus on the market, after cooking are generally sticky to a piece, put into the mouth is not very obvious flavor, also can not hear the sound of crunching, are generally put into the mouth on the broken.

3, process

This process mainly refers to the white lotus peeling process, quality lotus is hand peeled, without the use of any machine, handmade white lotus after drying the surface will have some more natural folds. The market to choose the machine peeling of white lotus is usually due to the late picking time of the lotus seeds, resulting in the ripening of the lotus seed too old and can not be manually peeled. Only machine peeling is used. Machine peeled white lotus surface will have residual red skin, while the chemical peeling of the lotus will be swollen at the knife marks, so that most of the lotus is pure white.

Lotus seed production process

4, origin

Generally speaking, the better lotus seed origin is Jianning in northwestern Fujian Province, which is the first of China's three major Tribute Lotus. It produces white lotus selected particles of larger, the use of artificial peeling, no additives, safe and healthy. Jianning production of white lotus slightly boiled that is cooked, the texture is fluffy, the quality is better than other places of origin. We might as well choose some Jianning production of lotus seeds when buying.

5, soaking

Lotus good and bad can also be identified by soaking, simply put the white lotus into the water, observe the changes. General quality lotus seeds, after soaking will be slightly larger than before, the surface is more smooth and rounded, soft to the touch. The water used after soaking is generally still relatively clear and free of impurities. And some of the poorer quality of white lotus on the market after soaking generally than before not much obvious change, sometimes the water will also become more turbid.

Lotus soaking

Precautions

In the consumption of lotus, after cleaning can be put directly into the pot, do not need to soak, general soaking will prolong the cooking time of the white lotus, the more soaked the more cooked not rotten.