"Poisonous bean sprouts" or "bean sprouts"? These five steps to teach you to distinguish

08:09 August 24, 2016

Source: People's Daily online - popular science in China

Bean sprouts, as a kind of nutritious and affordable food, got the favour of chefs, both also has received the general consumer's affection. Daily stroll market, we can often see a lot of colour and lustre is glittering and translucent, shiny, bean sprouts, but they have one thing in common, is the root. At that moment, everybody don't puzzled by their beautiful appearance, these may be "poisonous bean sprouts".

In order to make the bean sprouts with bright appearance and can grow fast, pusher will be added in the production process of bean sprouts many harmful chemical substances to the human body. For example, according to a report in the big river, no root sprouts regulator is a kind of fast growth hormone-like pesticides, bean sprouts to human body harm cause cancer, birth defects, are prohibited from use in food production country of chemical products. And with the bean sprouts produced in this way is "poisonous bean sprouts," they typically look thick long, color white, and don't take root, short growth cycle and double production. Eat the bean sprouts, will produce very big effect to health.

In order to avoid such a great health hazard, we must pay attention to, do not eat "poisonous bean sprouts". So, how should we choose the safety of bean sprout?

When choosing the bean sprouts, a need to smell the bean sprouts, health bean sprouts not irritating smell; Two depends on the root of the bean sprouts, natural breeding of bean sprouts, its roots growth is good, and no root sprouts is likely to be "poisonous bean sprouts"; Third, we need to see the bean sprouts, natural cultivation of crisp bean sprout shoots foot, while "poisonous bean sprouts" bud stem thick hair lotions; Four to see whether there is water emitted when broken bean sprouts stem, no rising out of water is normal bean sprouts, may feel relieved edible; Five to see the color of the bean sprouts, normal color natural, bean sprouts and after chemical processing of bean sprouts, its brightness will increase significantly.

If you still not trust, to circulate on the market of bean sprouts, then, might as well at home have bean sprouts, process is not complicated, the output of bean sprouts also reassuring. At home, according to the shenyang daily spontaneous bean sprouts, simply put mung bean or soybean water soak overnight, the second day after leaching, water will bubble good beans in a leak in the basket, and hung up placed, so that bean sprouts root grow down, but also conducive to breathe freely; Build piece of wet cloth on the beans again, to avoid direct sunlight. Every day, various watered once in the afternoon, under the condition of 20 degrees Celsius place 4 to 5 days, serve to reassure harmless bean sprout! (when)