How to identify the authenticity of Ejiao cake, how to distinguish the authenticity of Ejiao cake

If you can learn how to distinguish between real and fake Ejiao cakes, you won't be stupid to buy cheap products. After all, it's something in the mouth, and it's really not cost-effective to eat it if you spoil your body.

The best Ejiao cake becomes hard when cold, soft and easy to draw when heated, no gelatin is added, and it melts in boiling water during the softening period without any gelatinous substance. The taste is sweet, the good materials are perfectly presented, and each piece is individually packaged, which is clean and hygienic and convenient.

Inferior Ejiao cake, you can smell it as soon as you smell it, it has a fishy smell, the taste is naturally not good, and it does not react when dissolved in water for half a day. When choosing Ejiao cake, you must keep your eyes open, and you can't reluctantly eat Ejiao cake of poor quality because you are greedy for cheapness.

The specific steps of the first method are as follows: first prepare a small bowl, pour half a bowl of hot water, and then open the ejiao cake into the water. After a few seconds, you will notice that there is a light yellow thing dissolved, which is the decomposition of Ejiao.

After the ejiao is completely dissolved, the excipients will gradually decompose. Walnuts, red dates, goji berries, sesame seeds, etc. are completely scattered. As long as it is the best Ejiao cake, you will find that the accessories are clearly visible, and you can also smell the fragrance of Ejiao, and the water can be drunk after the experiment.

If you find that more than ten minutes have passed, there is no movement in Ejiao cake, or only a little bit of light yellow thing dissolves out, and the accessories are very hard, even if you use chopsticks to pound, you can't spread it, then you really have to pay attention, the experiment shows that such Ejiao cake is not **, there is no Ejiao, and what is more terrible is that bad merchants will also add gelatin or inferior Ejiao scraps, which not only does not have a tonic effect, but is also harmful to the body.

The second identification method, take a flashlight or a flashlight on the mobile phone to open the Ejiao cake, if you find that the light is brownish-red, translucent, you can clearly see the gold and blood lines in the block, the better the light transmittance of the Ejiao block, the less impurities in it.

Ejiao should be as yellow as amber, as black as lacquer. The real one has no skin odor, and it is not soft in summer. Fire test:

Take a small sample and burn it in the crucible, it bursts at first, then expands and melts and emits white smoke, with a strong aroma of sesame oil, and the residue after ash is jet black, loose, in the form of a sheet or clumpy, and does not bond with the crucible; Water test: boil and dissolve, the solution is light brown-red, turbid, and white substances are precipitated, there are oil droplets on the liquid surface, take the gel and dissolve it in water, the liquid is clear, no turbidity; Slapping: Holding and slapping the tabletop vigorously, the fragment section is brown, translucent, and no foreign matter is true, if the slapping is soft but not broken, it is suspected to be a counterfeit.

With the change of the times, Ejiao has also begun to enter thousands of households, and it can enter ordinary people's homes. Ejiao on the market is also endless, some are of good quality, some are expensive, and some are of high quality and low price; But what is hateful is that there are counterfeit and shoddy traders who use fake ejiao to enter the market. Consuming such counterfeit and shoddy products does not benefit our human body at all, and may even harm our human body.

So how to tell the real from the fake?

1. Observe the surface.

There are certain differences between real Ejiao cake and fake Ejiao cake in color, shape and other details, such as the color of the real product is brown and black, and the fake one is gray; The shape of the treasure is rectangular and flat with neat edges, while the fake one is square and skewed at the edges.

2. The texture is crispy.

Ejiao cake is mainly made of donkey skin, when distinguishing the real from the fake, you can take a small piece by hand to gently knock it, if it is broken directly, it means that it is genuine, if the texture is harder, it means that it is a fake.

3. Dissolve in the water of socks.

The real ejiao will melt half an hour after being put into the water, and emit a burst of gum fragrance, and the fake and proud cake is not easy to melt after being put into the water, and will emit an indescribable unique smell, which is unbearable.

4. Whether it transmits light.

If there is a condition, you can use a flashlight to irradiate the surface of the Ejiao cake when buying Ejiao cake, if there is light transmittance, it means that it is genuine, if there is no gloss at all, it must be fake, and it is likely to add additives such as gelatin.

1. Taste the taste.

The raw materials will directly affect the taste, and a good Ejiao cake is more vigorous, easy to melt, and has the fragrance of walnuts and sesame. If the jujube selected by Zhizhu is not good, the taste will be sour, the walnut kernel is not good, the taste will be bitter, and the sesame skin will be thick and the taste will be astringent.

2. Look at the appearance.

Good Ejiao cake sesame seeds, walnut kernels, red dates and other accessories are clearly distributed, and the additive Ejiao cake will see black paste - blocks, because of the addition of dextrin and gelatin and other substances.

3. Smell the smell.

Good Ejiao cake will have a faint aroma of gum and sesame seeds, and also reveal the aroma of rice wine, while fake Ejiao cake will have a peculiar smell, or basically no taste.

Ejiao cake is a medicinal and edible homologous product, which is refined with natural raw materials such as black sesame seeds, walnut kernels, Xinjiang jujubes, etc. It has the effect of replenishing blood and qi, consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan, regulating qi and relieving depression, regulating menstruation and relieving pain.

In the early years, the ancients ate Ejiao cake mainly for beauty and beauty, but in the process of eating, it was found that it was good for regulating menstruation, relieving menstrual cramps, improving sleep, and enhancing immunity, which were discovered after a long time.