There are a lot of millets on the market that are old rice, although it is cheaper, but the taste is very poor, if you want to buy a good new millet, you have to learn some skills.
1. How to choose high-quality corn.
1. Look at the appearance.
High-quality corn grains are uniform in size and color, milky white, yellow or golden yellow, shiny, rarely broken rice, no insects, no impurities. Take a small amount of corn to be tested and put it on soft white paper, moisten it with your mouth, and then twist the corn with paper several times to observe whether there is a slight yellow color on the paper, if there is yellow, it means that the corn to be tested is dyed with yellow pigment.
2. Smell the smell.
High-quality corn smells fresh and has no other peculiar smells. This kind of corn means that it is relatively high-quality, and it belongs to the fresh and high-quality corn that we can buy with confidence. For the severely spoiled corn, we are prone to powdery when we twist it by hand, and there is a lot of broken rice, and it smells slightly mildew, sour, rotten or other abnormal odors.
3. Taste.
High-quality corn tastes good, slightly sweet, and does not have any peculiar taste. Inferior corn tastes tasteless, slightly bitter, astringent and other undesirable tastes, we can taste a little when we choose, although the taste of direct raw eating is not very good, but this is an important millet purchase skill, you may wish to try it.
Second, how to look good about grain millet.
1. Take a handful of millet and put it in water, fresh millet will sink quickly, or sink more;Chen millet will have most of the rice grains, floating on the water, which can be seen at a glance.
2. Fresh millet, grab a handful and smell it vigorously, there is a very strong rice fragrance, while the rice fragrance of aged rice is very light, or basically none.
3. The color of the new millet is sallow, while the color of the old millet is a little whitish. Look at the millet bran, grab a handful of millet and put it down, fresh millet will have some bran sticking to your hands, while aged millet will not have bran. Looking at the size of the millet, the fresh millet looks more uniform in particle size, while the aged millet is different in size.