How to distinguish high quality wolfberry

The quality of wolfberry in the best-selling market is also good or bad. If you want to buy high-quality wolfberry, you must learn how to distinguish the quality of wolfberry. Let's learn how to distinguish the quality of wolfberry.

According to professionals, high-quality medlar generally has the following characteristics: the fruit is spindle-shaped or oval, with small ends, slightly flattened surface with dark red but not bright color, irregular wrinkles and slightly luster; There are raised style marks at the top and white fruit stalk marks at the base. The peel is flexible, the flesh is soft, and it contains most light yellow brown flat kidney-shaped seeds, which taste sweet but not sour.

To distinguish from the color

High-quality medlar has different colors due to different producing areas, but the color is very soft, shiny and full of meat. However, the dyed medlar is mostly the old products of previous years. From the sensory point of view, the meat quality is poor and dull, but the appearance is very bright and attractive. Therefore, when buying medlar, you must not be greedy for "color". In particular, the dyed medlar is red throughout, and even the small white spots at the pedicle of medlar are red, while the tip of normal medlar is mostly yellow or white, while the pedicle of medlar impregnated with pigment is red, and the pedicle of medlar baked with sulfur is dark brown. Since medlar dyed with pigment is especially afraid of water, it is suggested that you can put a few grains of medlar into water when purchasing medlar, or rub them with wet hands on purpose. If the color faded, it means that the pigment has been used.

Distinguish from the shape

Ningxia wolfberry and Inner Mongolia wolfberry are oblong, but Ningxia wolfberry will float up after soaking in water, Inner Mongolia wolfberry will sink, while Xinjiang wolfberry is round and easy to distinguish. These kinds of medlar are all top grade with large and full grains. Because after soaking with alum blisters, the wolfberry fruit grains will become larger, so many businesses use this method. However, alum soaked medlar is very easy to distinguish. If this medlar is irradiated with light, there will be shiny crystal spots on the surface of the medicinal materials. In addition, "poisonous medlar" feels sticky, while natural medlar is drier.

Distinguish from the smell

For medlar fumigated by sulfur, you only need to grab a handful and cover it with your hands for a while, then put it under your nose to smell. If you can smell the irritating smell, then you can definitely be fumigated by sulfur.

Distinguish from the taste

High-quality medlar is sweet and tastes especially sweet, but there is a bitter taste in the throat after eating it. However, medlar in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places is a little greasy with sweetness. medlar soaked by alum will have bitterness of alum when chewed. As for medlar soaked by sulfur, the taste is sour, astringent and bitter.