How to choose quality and fresh products

If you try to eat right and value your own health, then when buying products, you probably carefully study their appearance and label. But to make sure the quality of products for obvious signs is not always possible.





"Site" shares tips that will help from all the variety of products in supermarkets to choose only the highest quality and fresh.





How to choose products

1. Vegetables
   It is no secret that when growing vegetables today, chemicals and fertilizers are often used, and perfectly beautiful tomatoes can be completely rotten inside.
   
   
   
   To recognize a high-quality tomato or cucumber will help the peduncle: just smell the vegetable in contact with it. If you feel the living smell of a ripe vegetable, safely buy.
   
   Not all the gold that shines. In natural conditions, vegetables do not grow very bright, not perfectly smooth and do not reach giant sizes. Therefore, when buying, unnaturally large, glossy and even vegetables should be avoided.
   
   
   
   
   
   Fresh cucumbers should be light green. Yellowness can indicate the presence of nitrates in cucumbers or overmaturity. Feel the peduncle, if it is too soft, then the purchase should be abandoned.
   
   
   
   
   
   Proper tomatoes should have a thin skin, a small peduncle without signs of yellowness and there should be no white streaks in the pulp - this is also a sign of using nitrates.
   
   Carrots should be exactly orange, without yellow and green spots, and beets - dark maroon. When choosing cabbage, carefully examine the sections of the leaves: in the place where the cut crosses the vein, there should be no black spots.
   
   
   
   
   
   When buying an avocado, you should pay attention to the color of the place under the peduncle. Green indicates that the fruit will finish in a couple of days. Brown indicates an overripe avocado.
   
   
2. Meat.
   The first thing to do when choosing pork, beef, lamb or poultry is to sniff. Fresh meat smells good. Fresh veal, for example, smells like steamed milk. This also applies to minced meat: it is supposed to smell like meat, not spices or garlic.
   
   
   
   To rid the stale parts of the carcass of the smell, they are soaked in water with vinegar or special fragrances, so the complete absence of odor should also alert. When choosing meat, pay attention to its color: beef should be evenly red, pork - pale pink, and chicken - pinkish-white.
   
   The meat should not have a gray hue, winded edges or a strange plaque. Fat layers should be pure white, yellowish are in old animals, their meat is tough.
   
   
   
   
   
   Be sure not only to look at the meat, but also to poke it with a finger, fork or knife. The piece should be elastic and have a uniform structure. The hole from touching a piece of fresh meat quickly disappears.
   
   
3. Fish
   Fresh fish should have eyes like alive, without a white veil. Fish's murky eyes They said she was on the counter. Another criterion for freshness is gills. In fresh fish, they are red, and in those that lie for a long time, the gills darken.
   
   
   
   Fish scales should hold tight. If it falls off easily, the fish is either thawed or spoiled. Smell the fish: it should not smell of swamp and mud. A strong pungent smell indicates an incorrect temperature regime during storage or transportation.
   
   
4. Fruit
   To fully enjoy the taste of fruits, it is important to be able to choose a ripe and high-quality product. As with vegetables, smell is very important. From pineapple, for example, should come a slight tart smell. If the aroma is too sweet, heavy, then the fruit is most likely hopelessly overripe.
   
   
   
   Another bad sign of fermentation is dark brown spots on the skin. We advise you to pay attention to the top, the “tail” of the pineapple. The upper leaves with dry tips are a sign of ripeness.
   
   
   
   
   
   Choosing a watermelon, it is necessary to knock on it: the more loud the sound, the sweeter the watermelon will be. The stripes of the mature fruit should be contrasting, and the peduncle dried. One side must necessarily be yellow, this is the side on which the watermelon lay while ripe.
   
   
   
   
   
   Melon should be clean, without black spots and cracks. The folk method prescribes to feel the “nose” (the trace of the flower) and the “tail” (the trace of the stem). The first in ripe melon should be slightly soft, and the second - absolutely dry.
   
   Apricots, peaches and plums should not deform when pressed. Their surfaces should be completely dry. When choosing grapefruits, focus on the ones that seem heavy: they are the juiciest.
   
   
5. Eggs.
   Quality chicken eggs should be clean (without feathers and litter), without cracks, match each other in size and weight. According to Russian standards, each egg should be stamped with markings. This allows you to know the category of eggs and the maximum shelf life.
   
   
   
   The shell of a fresh egg should have a matte, not a glossy color. If you apply a fresh egg to the ear and shake, then no sounds should be heard (gurgling). If the egg is too light, it may mean that it is already dry and may be rotten.
   
   

Now you know exactly how to buy the sweetest pineapple, quality eggs and fresh meat. Knowing these secrets will save you from the torment of choosing at the counter. Health and good appetite!

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