Eating Shrimp For Longevity And Good Luck! Doctor Of Chemical Engineering Of National Taiwan University 1 Trick To Distinguish Normal Shrimp And Syrup Shrimp

The Chinese New Year custom must eat shrimp, which symbolizes good luck in the coming year. In addition, shrimp also represents the meaning of longevity. In the news, there are often reports of medicinal shrimp, especially children or the elderly with weak kidney function, who may suffer deeply when they eat it. How to distinguish between normal shrimp and syrup shrimp?

Xie Jieyang, a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from National Taiwan University, pointed out that everyone likes the plump and full-bodied shrimp, which is crisp and chewy when bitten. The ordinary shrimps from other hawkers are soft and rotten in comparison, and they don't sell well.

Over time, soaking shrimp in phosphate has become the norm. Seafood wholesalers are not surprised, but shrimp that have not been soaked in potion are afraid to sell. To put it bluntly, it is still to blame consumers for wrongly expecting "shrimp must be big and crispy to be delicious".

Xie Jieyang said frankly that he had to say that unless he took it to a laboratory for testing, there was no clear way to distinguish seafood in potion from its appearance. All I can say is: Even fresh shrimps are naturally elastic, and they should not be like bouncy balls after they are cooked, and they can bounce when thrown on a plate.

Xie Jieyang observed that almost all people who love to cook prefer to buy ingredients in traditional markets, because freshness is the best taste, and the ingredients in traditional markets in bulk and in the open air just give people a sense of freshness. , The feeling of direct delivery. This is true when it comes to vegetables and fruits, but buy all kinds of meat at traditional markets, or hawker homemade processed food.product, you need to be more careful.

Xie Jieyang said,

Why do people soak shrimp in phosphate? Because consumers have heard that the shrimps are delicious and delicious; why do some people produce alkaline rice dumplings made of borax? Because it tastes better than the one without borax, it does not stick to the teeth, the color is more beautiful and it sells better. Xie Jieyang sighed that the merchants who produce these foods even though they know it is illegal are detestable, but in retrospect, it is still the public's wrong expectations and desires for food that created these monsters.

◎ This article is excerpted from / "Xie Jieyang's long-term short story: 58 chemical common sense that a doctor of chemical industry teaches you must know about dining table, beauty maintenance, and home cleaning" by Xie Jieyang ◎ Image source/Provided by Dazhi Image/shutterstock

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