How to dry goji berries, how to dry fresh goji berries

There are two ways to do this:

1. Drying method.

Mix the freshly picked wolfberries with alkaline water and spread them evenly into a wolfberry plate ("wolfberry plate": a special tool for drying or baking wolfberries. Generally, a wooden frame with a length of 90 cm and a width of 60 cm is nailed with wooden strips, and a window screen is nailed under the wooden frame, and a horizontal piece of wood is nailed under the window screen.

The wolfberries are spread out on top of the window screen. Note that cardboard or bamboo mats are used, but they are not as good as the ventilation and ventilation performance of window screens). Dry in the shade and in a ventilated place (one day is appropriate).

After the wolfberries lose some of their moisture, they are moved to the sun and exposed.

Exposure should choose a ventilated and flat place (most of the people in Julu County choose to be on the roof of their houses). The wolfberry plate should be placed separately, the wolfberry plate should be stacked up every night when it rains on a cloudy day, and it should be covered with plastic film in time to prevent the wolfberry from returning to moisture, and the plastic film should be removed in time after the weather is sunny and the next morning to prevent the wolfberry from turning black due to high temperature. When the wolfberry is dried to seven or eight percent, it should be buckled in time.

The buckle plate is to buckle the wolfberries in the plate to the hard surface that is sunny, ventilated and easy to clean (the roof of the bungalow is the best). The buckle should be selected in the early morning. The night before buckle the plate, the wolfberry plate should not be covered with plastic film, so that the wolfberries will return to moisture in the plate for one night, so that the wolfberries can be easily deducted from the plate (if you do not let the moisture return, the wolfberries will be stained on the window screen in large quantities and are not easy to remove).

After buckling the plate, the wolfberries should be spread evenly.

After the wolfberry is dried, it should be put into a bag in time, and a double bag should be used, and the bagging time should be selected in the afternoon.

At four or five o'clock, at this time, the sun is sufficient, the moisture is relatively small, and the wolfberry is not easy to return to moisture. The mouth of the bag should be pierced immediately after bagging.

In spring and summer, the sunlight is abundant and the air humidity is low, so it is easy to use this method.

Second, the baking method.

To bake dried wolfberries, you need to build a small oven, leave a vent above the small oven, and install an exhaust fan. The windows should be nailed with plastic film. Hang a cotton curtain at the door, and leave a one-foot-high vent under the curtain.

In the small baking room, use bamboo poles to set up a plate for the wolfberry plate. Coal fire in the room, always 60 to 70.

Mix the newly picked wolfberries with edible alkaline water, spread them evenly in the wolfberry plate, and put the wolfberry plate on the bottom layer of the support in the small baking room.

After the wolfberries are dried, they should be buckled and bagged in time, otherwise the wolfberries will be "burned" due to the high temperature in the small baking room. In autumn, there is more rain, less sunlight, and high air humidity, so it is easy to use this method.

The wolfberries should be steamed on a pot for about 5 minutes, and then placed in a ventilated place to dry after cooling. At the beginning, don't be exposed to the sun for a long time, wait until the sun is about the same, put it in the sun for about three days, and be sure to bag it in time after drying, because wolfberries are particularly susceptible to moisture.

Goji berries should not be picked and sunned.

Goji berries have the function of nourishing the liver and kidneys, benefiting the essence and understanding, and mainly treating liver and kidney yin deficiency, lack of sperm and blood, waist and knee pain, vision loss, dizziness and other symptoms. In addition to medicinal use, wolfberry can also be used as a beverage, raw food or wine drink, but it is advisable to use a first-class product without black spots, black spots, and bright red whole fruits. In order to improve the commodity value of wolfberry, the following seven aspects should be paid attention to in the picking and drying of wolfberry.

1. It is not suitable to pick raw life. After the wolfberry falls into flowering, it gradually develops into a green young fruit, and then the fruit develops and becomes an orange fruit, at which time the flesh is still hard. Then the fruit gradually turns bright red.

The fruit pedicle is loose and the flesh is slightly soft, which is the best time to pick wolfberry. If the orange fruit is picked too early, the wolfberry will become a yellow-skinned fruit after drying, which will affect the quality and grade of the wolfberry.

Second, it is not suitable to pick up wet. Goji berries should not be picked in the morning when there is dew or when the surface is not dry after rain. If the wet fruit is picked, the fruit surface is not dry for a long time, and it is easy to be contaminated by bacteria, and the dried fruit is dark in color.

3. It should not be bruised. Picking wolfberries should be picked gently, and the utensils containing wolfberries should be used in pots, buckets, baskets, baskets, etc., and plastic bags should not be used to prevent squeezing or collision during handling. Due to bruises, crushes, crushes, falls, puncture wounds, etc., they will turn black after drying.

Fourth, it should not be exposed to the sun. After sunrise, the fruit can be dried, first with low light and low temperature and gradually to strong light and high temperature, so that the fruit color of the dried fruit is bright red. If exposed to the sun in the hot noon, the fruit color is easy to turn black.

Fifth, it should not be put for a long time. The picked wolfberries should be dried or dried in time, and should not be left for a long time. Because the freshly picked wolfberry breathes strongly, and is prone to heat and sweat, it is left for too long, and the fruit color after drying is gray and not fresh.

Sixth, it should not be flipped over. During the drying process, the wolfberry is injured as a result of turning it, and it turns black after drying. Therefore, after the wolfberry stall is dried, it should not be turned in the middle until it is dried before it can be collected.

7. It should not be fumigated. Goji berries should not be fumigated with sulfur, although the fruit color is fresh after fumigation with sulfur, it is easy to be polluted.

8. It should not be mixed. After the wolfberry fruit is dried, it is necessary to pick out the fruit pedicle, fruit handle, black spot fruit, yellow peel fruit, special-shaped fruit and other impurities while dry, and then package them in a graded manner and store them in a ventilated and dry place to prevent insects, wetting and mildew. (Excerpt from the Rural Masses).

If it is a dried wolfberry, after washing, control the moisture and put it in the sun to dry directly.

Can you wash the goji berries you pick?

1. First of all, put the fresh wolfberries in the pot and steam them for about five minutes.

2. Then put it in a ventilated place and dry it slowly.

3. Don't bask in the sun, wait for it to dry up, move to the sun and expose it to the sun for 2 to 3 days.

4. After drying, it should be sealed in time, otherwise it is easy to regain moisture, so it must be sealed.

There are generally two methods of sun drying.

1. One is the common drying method. Steam it in a pot of boiling water for five minutes, then remove it and place it on a tray and move to a well-ventilated environment to let it dry slowly. When it is about to dry, it will be moved to the sun and exposed to the sun for two or three days, and it can be sealed and stored after drying.

2. The second is to use the drying method. Mix well with alkaline water and bake in the baking room, taking care to warm slowly until dry. Be careful not to bake for too long, otherwise it will be easy to burn.

From June to November every year, the fruits of wolfberry are red and ripe, to be harvested in batches, quickly spread the fresh fruit on the reed cane, the thickness is not more than 3 cm, it is appropriate to take centimeters, put it in a cool place to dry until the skin is wrinkled, and then expose to the sun until the peel is hard, remove the fruit stalk when the flesh is soft, and then dry it.

Edible value: young leaves can be used as vegetables, in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, wolfberry sprouts have been very popular, wolfberry sprouts can be bought in the vegetable market, but the south is basically Chinese wolfberry, there is no Ningxia wolfberry. In Ningxia and other northwest regions, the use of young leaves of wolfberry as vegetables is rare.

Ornamental value: Ningxia wolfberry tree shape graceful, green leaves, light purple flowers, bright red fruits, is a good bonsai ornamental plant, now there are some wolfberry ornamental cultivation.

There are three ways to dry wolfberry, which are natural drying method, drying method, and microwave drying method.

1. Natural drying method.

Spread the goji berries evenly on the sun-dried field, and dry them in sunny and sunny conditions. In case of rainy weather, you can place the wolfberries in a well-ventilated room to dry. During the drying process, turn it every once in a while to ensure that the wolfberries dry evenly.

In general, it needs to be dried continuously for two to three days.

2. Drying method.

The drying method is a relatively fast drying method and is suitable for use in humid weather or when time is of the essence. Wash the picked goji berries and dry them with a clean towel to make sure there are no water droplets on the surface. Arrange the goji berries evenly on the dryer, taking care not to overlap.

Set the temperature of the dryer to about 50 and start drying. Flip at regular intervals to ensure that the goji berries dry evenly.

3. Microwave oven drying method.

Place the goji berries evenly in the microwave, turn the microwave power to medium and start drying. Every 30 seconds or so, take out the wolfberries and turn them over to ensure that the wolfberries are dried evenly. When the wolfberries are completely dry, store them in a dry, airtight container.

Slippery precautions for sun-dried wolfberries

Sunny days are the most suitable time to dry goji or blind berries. On a sunny day, the surface of the goji berries can dry quickly, but if the sun's rays are too strong, you can consider drying the goji berries in the semi-shade. It should be noted that if the drying time is too short, there may still be some moisture inside the wolfberry, which is prone to mildew and other problems; If you dry it for too long, the taste may deteriorate.

The degree of dryness of wolfberry is the key to drying, if it is damp, it will affect the taste, in the process of drying, you need to avoid wolfberry moisture, you can choose a well-ventilated place indoors to dry, or use a sunshade net and other devices to cover it on a sunny day. After drying, goji berries need to be regularly checked for tightness in storage containers to protect them from moisture.