What is good rice? From the appearance, rice with high hardness, low moisture and high protein content is a good rice that can be purchased with confidence. Generally speaking, new rice is harder than old rice, and late rice is harder than early rice. In addition, when purchasing rice, we must also pay attention to observing yellow rice? The yellowing of rice grains is mainly due to the chemical reaction of some nutrients or microorganisms in rice under certain conditions, which affects the fragrance, taste and taste of rice.
What is old rice? Observe the color of rice carefully: the surface of rice is gray or has white grooves. Such rice must be old rice. If the hardness of rice grains is low and accompanied by peculiar smell, it can basically be judged as moldy rice.
The method of identifying rice is 1. Is Baishi mixed in the rice? The purpose of this fake technology is to increase the weight of rice. The identification method is: look at the stones in rice. The original stones are round, while the newly mixed stones are angular.
2 Good rice mixed with indica rice? Processed indica rice is small broken rice grains, which is easy to distinguish. The identification method is: grab a handful of rice and spread it out in your hand. If there are broken grains or small grains in it, it can be judged as adulterated rice.
3 japonica rice pretending to be good rice? The trick of counterfeiting is usually to mix green and white into japonica rice, so that the color of japonica rice is blue, the surface is smooth and looks like rice. The identification method is: the color of unprinted japonica rice comes from rice bran when touched by hand; Colored japonica rice will feel smooth by hand and will not stick to the surface of rice bran.
How to choose rice 1? Inspection: According to the general standard of food labeling, rice bags must be marked with special labeling contents such as production date, product name, name and address of manufacturer, net content, shelf life, quality grade and product standard number, among which production date is the most critical point to identify new rice. In addition, check whether there are any national mandatory regulations on the packaging. QS？ Certification mark.
2. Look: the rice grains are even and full in size, bright and shiny in color, and broken rice, yellow rice and diseased rice are rare.
3. Grab: Grab a handful of rice in your hand, and after letting go, observe whether there is white rice bran powder in your hand. This kind of rice bran powder is rarely seen in qualified new rice.
4. Smell: Take a small amount of rice in your hand, rub it with your hand and get hot, and then smell it immediately. Authentic new rice, fragrant. Old rice, which has been stored for more than one year, only has the taste of rice bran, but has no clear fragrance.
5. Taste: Take a few grains of rice and chew it carefully. Qualified new rice tastes slightly sweet and has no musty and sour taste. The new rice has high water content and is fragrant with loose teeth; Old rice has low water content and hard taste.
6. Feel: the new rice is smooth and feels cool; Old beige is dark and feels astringent; Seriously deteriorated rice is easily pulverized or fragile by hand twisting.
7. Washing: The moth-eaten rice floats on the water surface after adding water. After washing, it is grayish green and moldy.
Knowing how to choose rice and how to identify rice, we can choose the most healthy and nutritious rice among many rice.