How to choose bayberry? Will eating bayberry cause internal heat?

When you are choosing bayberries, you can also taste them. Bayberries that are juicy and sweet, and have no residue in your mouth after eating are generally good. Some bayberries are dry, have less juice, and have residue after eating, which means that the quality of the bayberries is not good. Eating too much bayberry will cause internal heat. It is generally recommended not to eat too many bayberries, no more than ten bayberries a day, so that you can absorb the vitamin C in the bayberry juice. You must eat bayberries in moderation. The following is a method of how to choose bayberries and how to wash bayberries compiled by Encyclopedia Knowledge Network.

Contents of this article

1. How to select bayberry

2. How to wash bayberry

3. How many days can fresh bayberry be stored?

4. Will eating bayberry cause internal heat?

How to choose bayberry

1. Look at the color

When looking at the color of bayberry, you should choose bayberry that is dry and dark red. It is best not to buy bayberry that is too dark red. Green or blue-red bayberry also means that it is not ripe yet, so it is best not to buy it.

2. Touch the flesh

During the purchase process, you can touch the flesh with your hands. If the flesh of the bayberry is too soft, it means it is not yet ripe, and such bayberries generally do not taste very good. If the flesh is too hard, it means it is not fully ripe, and it will taste sour and have a bad taste.

3. Smell

When choosing bayberries, you should pay attention to the smell. Fresh bayberries will have a fragrance, while bayberries that have been stored for a long time or improperly will have a faint smell of wine, which means that such bayberries have been fermented.

4. Taste

When choosing bayberries, you can also taste them. The ones that are juicy and sweet, and have no residue in your mouth after eating, are generally better. Some bayberries are drier, have less juice, and have residue after eating, which means that the quality of the bayberries is not good.

How to wash bayberry

Tips 1. Put the bayberries you bought into a large wide-mouthed bowl, then pour in enough water to cover all the bayberries, then pour salt into the water to soak the bayberries together. A sufficiently concentrated salt water concentration can drive away small insects. So, how much salt should be added to be effective? How long does it take to soak the bayberries without insects? If we pour in one liter of water, we need to put in at least two spoons of salt (spoon, spoon for children to eat). The soaking time for the bayberries is 20-30 minutes. You can't soak them for a few minutes and then pick them up to eat. This will not have any effect. After soaking, filter them with clean water and wash off the dirt.

Tip 2: If you have the conditions and love to eat fruits, you can buy a "fruit and vegetable washing machine" at home, which has a good effect of sterilization and degradation of pesticides. The ozone generated by the ozone generator sterilizes the fruits put into the washing machine. Because ozone has an oxidative disinfection and sterilization effect. If there are almost no insects in the bayberry, you might as well use a fruit and vegetable washing machine, which can quickly degrade pesticides.

Tip 3: Fruit and vegetable cleaning agent is also a good way to sterilize and remove pesticides. However, fruit and vegetable cleaning agents inevitably contain chemical ingredients. Although they can neutralize pesticides for bayberry, they cannot avoid the fact that Chinese cleaning agents themselves contain substances that are harmful to the body. Therefore, when using fruit and vegetable cleaning agents, be sure to rinse the bayberry with clean water again.

Tip 4: Soak the bayberries in ordinary clean water. Make sure all the bayberries must be soaked in the water. Then use your index finger to stir the bayberries in the water in the same direction. In this way, substances with higher density will run into the water. However, be careful not to stir too hard or stir randomly to avoid damaging the skin of the bayberries, making them stale and unpalatable.

Tip 5: It is reported that using starch solution or baking soda can also clean bayberries, but not every household has these two things. In this case, using flour solution to soak bayberries is also possible. Soak all bayberries in flour solution, then stir with your fingers to separate the dirt or large insects, then filter out the bayberries and rinse with clean water.

How many days can fresh bayberry be stored?

Bayberries are very delicate and have a short shelf life. Bayberries can only be eaten once a day at room temperature (the bayberries picked today are fine to eat tomorrow). If placed in a refrigerator at around 0-4 degrees, they can generally be kept for 3 days. If they are kept longer, they will not taste good. If placed in a refrigerator below 0 degrees, they can be kept for a long time, but the taste will not be good at all. If the bayberries are picked on a rainy day, they are equivalent to being washed, and the shelf life will be even shorter. Therefore, bayberries must be eaten quickly and eat more while they are fresh!

Will eating bayberry cause internal heat?

Eating too much bayberry will cause internal heat. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, bayberry is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It has certain effects of clearing away heat, promoting body fluid, digesting food and strengthening the spleen. However, because bayberry itself is a hot food, eating too much may cause internal heat phenomena such as mouth sores, bad breath, and dry stool. It is generally recommended not to eat too much bayberry, no more than ten bayberries a day, so that the vitamin C in the bayberry juice can be absorbed. Bayberry must be eaten in moderation. Eating too much bayberry will indeed cause internal heat. Because the acidic substances contained in bayberry are not easily oxidized and decomposed, once these acidic substances enter the body, they will stimulate the gastric mucosa together with gastric acid, induce gastric ulcers, and cause internal heat. People with chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers, and excessive gastric acid secretion should not eat on an empty stomach to avoid excessive gastric acid secretion and induce the disease; diabetic patients with poor basic blood sugar control should also avoid eating bayberry.