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😉 Greetings to the readers of the site “Ladies-Gentlemen”! How to check the quality of cottage cheese or sausage? This is not difficult to determine at home.
For example, thirty years ago food was much less abundant, but it was natural! Unfortunately, nowadays, almost every store-bought product contains some kind of additives, artificial flavors, thickeners, leavening agents, preservatives.
In pursuit of profit, unscrupulous manufacturers cheat. How can a buyer protect himself from this “chemical attack”? So, let’s turn our kitchen into a home laboratory for a while.
How to check the quality of products
Fruits vegetables
First, examine the skin of the fruit carefully. If the skin is sticky, and some kind of greasy coating remains on the hands, then the fruits were treated with a special wax. This is done for long-term storage and transportation. When washing the fruit, the wax will not wash off and will enter your body. Therefore, it is advisable to peel the fruits.
Do not buy large fruits! This is a clear sign of a high nitrate content. If all apples are the same and regular shape, size and without flavor, pass by. There are no “perfect vegetables” in nature! Don’t forget that “every vegetable has its own time.” For example, don’t buy melons and watermelons in May or June.
Bread and flour
Click on the bread. If it is of high quality, then its shape will be restored immediately. The bread crumb should not be damp. Rub it with your fingers, your hands should be clean.
To add weight, sometimes starch and even chalk are added to the flour. Vinegar will help to check low-quality flour. From the reaction, foam will appear, and a drop of iodine will turn the flour blue.
Meat
When pressed on fresh and firm meat, the dent will disappear immediately. If, during defrosting, the meat darkens and a lot of water with blood appears, then it was frozen several times. Sometimes spoiled meat is treated with a solution of potassium permanganate. This can be seen in the fat, which has acquired a pinkish color.
Sausage
Twist and twirl the sausage in your hands. If, after twenty minutes, the hands continue to emit a sausage smell, it is of low quality. This is how the spoiled product is masked with different flavors.
The quality of the cooked sausage can be determined using iodine. If a drop of it on a piece of sausage does not change its color, then the product is good. And if the iodine has become lilac or blue, there is starch, which was added to make the weight heavier.
Curd
To check the quality of the curd, proceed as follows. Leave some curd overnight (outside the refrigerator). Take a look at his condition in the morning. If the type of cottage cheese has not changed, but has begun to sour – this is the “correct” cottage cheese! And if it is covered with a crust, it means that it contains palm oil or any other “nonsense”.
Second way: drip iodine. See the photo.
Cream
Stir a spoonful of sour cream in a glass of warm water. If a sediment appeared in the water, a thickener, starch and stabilizers were added here. Look at the photo.
Cheese
For the experiment, melt a small piece of cheese in the microwave oven. If you find yellow butter, vegetable fats have been added to the cheese.
Real cheese cannot be cheap. A good cheese will cost at least 600 rubles and more per 1 kg. Better to buy 300 grams of quality cheese than a kilogram of “fake” cheese. Do not buy cheese of bright “colors” – these are chemical dyes!
Milk
For the safety of the product, an unscrupulous manufacturer adds antibiotics, soda and various stabilizers to its composition.
To find out if there is chemistry in milk, do a home experiment. Add a teaspoon of sour cream to a glass of milk. Leave at room temperature for 5-6 hours. Natural milk will acidify and take the form of curdled milk.
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