How to identify whether vegetables are fresh or not, and how to judge fresh vegetables

Here are a few things to keep in mind when picking vegetables:

1) Don't buy vegetables with unusual colors. Fresh vegetables are not the brighter and stronger the color, the better, such as when buying cherry radishes, check whether the radish has faded; If you find that the color of dried beans is brighter than others, you should choose carefully.

2) Don't buy vegetables that are abnormally shaped. Stale vegetables have abnormal forms such as wilting, drying, damage, and distorted lesions; Some vegetables may become deformed due to the use of hormonal substances.

3) Don't buy vegetables that smell abnormal. In order to make some vegetables look better, unscrupulous traders soak them with chemicals, such as sulfur and nitrate, which have a peculiar smell and are not easily washed off.

Here are a few fresh features of the vegetables:

1. Tomato: The tomato with a stiff fruit stem and still green around it is fresh.

2. Pumpkin: Pumpkin that feels heavy and weighty when held in your hand, and the size of the petals is uniform. If you cut it**, you can choose a pumpkin with seeds as thick as almonds.

3. Gherkins: Freshly harvested cucumbers have wart-like protrusions on the surface, and there is a stinging sensation to the touch, which is very fresh. The color is dark green and shiny, pay attention to the incision of the stem in the front section, it needs to feel tender green, and the color is beautiful, which is a fresh cucumber.

4. Eggplant: Eggplant with dark black purple, luster and hard thorns on the tip is the freshest, on the contrary, eggplant with brown or wounds should not be purchased. If the tip of the eggplant feels larger than the fruit, it is not ripe, and even if the cut is discolored, it can be kept fresh by soaking it in water.

5. Cabbage: The green part of the leaves is shiny, and the cabbage is fresh with a sense of weight. Cut cabbage, white cut indicates good freshness. The incision will be brown after a long time of incision.

6. Shiitake mushrooms: The mushroom umbrella is fresh and tender brown, and the flesh is elastic, which is the fresh shiitake mushroom.

1. Green leafy vegetables: choose those with emerald green leaves that look full of energy! There is a very simple way: pinch with your fingernails, pinch and you will know the quality of the greens.

2. Cabbage: For example, the kind of long cabbage, you only need to pinch it slightly, if it feels hard and hard, and it feels heavy when you pick it up, it is relatively fresh. You can slightly peel off the top leaves to look inside, and don't buy the kind that you can see with dead leaves inside.

3. Cabbage: Don't buy the kind of cabbage that is arched, it means that it may have flowers growing in it, and the taste of this cabbage will not be very good at this time.

4. Celery: The freshness depends on whether it is hard, fresh celery is picked up, the rhizome part is straight, and the fresh is soft. The degree of deliciousness depends on the leaves, the color of the leaves is emerald green, spiritual.

The leaves should not be too thick, and the sparse ones are more delicious. The white stalk should not be too long, it is not delicious if it is too long, and the thick stalk is better than the thinner stalk.

5. Water spinach: If the water spinach is very old, the stalk will be very hard and not delicious.

6. Tomatoes: Pick good-looking ones, but don't look too good. What is too good-looking may be ripe. It is uniform in color, and the body is red, but the bottom can be a little green, which is naturally mature.

7. Loofah: The most versatile way to pick this is to poke it on the surface with your nails, which can be poked very easily into it is a very tender loofah, and it takes a little effort to make an old loofah. In addition, you can also see, look at the most tender one in a bunch of loofahs, pick it up and shake it, you feel that the loofah in your hand is shaking very much, and there is a feeling that it is going to break, it is a very tender loofah.

8. Eggplant: The kind that looks shiny, the less fresh the eggplant, the darker the color. Pinch it to be moderately soft and hard, never soft, soft skin with wrinkles are not fresh.

There is a lid on the head of the eggplant, generally speaking, the place where the lid is connected reveals a little white, this kind of eggplant will be more tender, there are fewer seeds inside, and the taste is good.

When shopping for vegetables, you should observe more, if the leaf dishes are green in color and bright in color, they are fresh. You can also touch the dish with your hands, if the dish can easily pinch out the water, and it is more elastic to the touch, it is a fresh dish. Fresh food will have an earthy taste, and if it is sour and smelly, it means that the dish has gone bad.

Dishes with leaves are the most suitable to observe the color of the leaves, the leaves are green and bright, and the color is bright to prove that it is a fresh dish, and if the leaves have turned yellow, falling, and even obvious traces of insect moth, it proves that the dish is not fresh enough, and it is recommended not to buy this kind of dish that has wilted.

Some dishes have a lot of fiber and enough water, so you can pinch them out with your hands, and you can hear a distinct sound. If the dish is soft and collapsed, and it is not elastic to the touch, it proves that the dish has lost moisture and is not a fresh dish, and it is not recommended to buy this dish.

Generally, fresh vegetables will have a kind of earthy smell or fresh smell, if the taste of the vegetables is sour and smelly when buying vegetables, it means that the vegetables are not fresh. When buying meat dishes, you can distinguish the freshness of the meat by smelling the taste, because the meat Chang resistant products are easy to spoil.