Ginger is a must-use ingredient for our cooking, but now the quality of ginger on the market is uneven. Some black-hearted businesses use sulfur to smoke ginger for profit. Eating ginger will have a great impact on our health. So usually when we choose, how should we choose good ginger? Below follow Shandong Zhuoyi to see together.

Method one:

Can observe the color of ginger, there are some illegal vendors, in order to make ginger appearance look more beautiful, color more bright, will use sulfur to fumigate ginger, the general sulfur smoked ginger skin appears dark yellow color, And the color is bright. The normal color of ginger is light yellow, because it has just been dug out of the soil.

Method two:

It can be distinguished by the taste of ginger. Normal ginger smells unique ginger flavor, sulfur smoked ginger will have a pungent taste, if you buy ginger, smell the irritating smell of ginger, see the turn of the head to go, do not want small cheap, may suffer a big loss.

Method three:

When buying ginger, you can also pinch ginger with your hand, feel the soft and hard degree of ginger. If you pinch the soft ginger, it is possible that the inside of the ginger has rotted and deteriorated, so the ginger must not be purchased. Rotting ginger is definitely not edible.

Method IV:

You can rub the skin of ginger with your hand, if it is sulfur smoked ginger, the skin is particularly fragile, with a rub will rub off the ginger skin. The ginger that can not rub skin with hand is relatively fresh and better.

Method V:

In the case of uncertain ginger, we can try the taste of ginger a little bit, pinch out a little ginger meat in the mouth, good ginger flavor will be more rich, if the taste of ginger is not strong, spicy taste is very light, even some irritating smell, it must not be normal ginger, do not buy.

Remember the above 5 points we can also choose a better ginger, so usually how should we save ginger? We can wrap the whole ginger with fresh-keeping film, keep it completely isolated from the air, and then put it in a cool and ventilated place to keep the ginger well.