Bird's nest is not only a precious cooking material, but also a very precious tonic. Known as China's four traditional nourishing products (bird's nest, ginseng, shark's fin and abalone). With the improvement of the royal family's diet and living standard, it has gradually become the best choice for ordinary people to adjust their body and mind, beautify themselves and give gifts to relatives and friends.
Among the bird's nest products, the ready-to-eat bird's nest has a very wide audience. Our common ready-to-eat bird's nest are pure bird's nest, rock sugar bird's nest, ready-to-drink drinks, ready-to-eat concentrated food and ready-to-eat semi-concentrated food. I won't talk about classification today. Let me tell you about the instant concentrated bird's nest. Which kind of instant concentrated bird's nest is good?
1, bird's nest shape
Is the instant concentrated bird's nest striped or lumpy when poured out? This mainly depends on the raw materials of ready-to-eat concentrated bird's nest. The ready-to-eat concentrated bird's nest made of bird's nest cup will be bird's nest-shaped. If it is a broken swallow or horn, it will form a block.
2. consistency of bird's nest
Instant concentrated bird's nest looks as soft as jelly. This is related to the content of bird's nest in instant concentrated bird's nest. A bottle of ready-to-eat concentrated bird's nest has the same specifications. The higher the content of bird's nest, the easier it becomes jelly. Here, we must look at another place, that is, the ingredient list of instant concentrated bird's nest. A good formula of instant concentrated bird's nest contains only bird's nest and water.
In order to increase the consistency of bird's nest, some manufacturers will add agar as thickener.
3. The fullness of the container
A container usually refers to a glass bottle with ready-to-eat bird's nest. Tilt the ready-to-eat concentrated bird's nest bottle to see if there is a gap in the bottle. Industrial production of ready-to-eat bird's nest must be vacuum sealed. It will be better if the container is full of vacuum. This is also the ingredient of bird's nest in instant concentrated bird's nest. The higher the content, the smaller the gap will be.
4. Will the bird's nest be poured out after opening the bottle with the bottle mouth facing down?
We know that good jelly can't be poured out (except specially processed jelly boxes). The same is true of instant bird's nest. Open the lid and turn it upside down to see if the bird's nest will fall off. If it doesn't come out, this instant concentrated bird's nest is of good quality and high bird's nest content.
It can be said that the highest standard of ready-to-eat concentrated bird's nest is that the bottle cap is inverted and the bird's nest will not fall off. Similarly, look at the ingredients list. Is it just bird's nest and water?
Ready-to-eat concentrated bird's nest grade table:
1, massive and poor ready-to-eat concentrated bird's nest;
2, strip, ordinary instant bird's nest, just instant bird's nest, the concentration is not up to standard;
3, strip, but there will be a gap after tilting, and the contents of this bird's nest are not enough;
4, strip, it is not easy to have a gap after tilting, but after opening, the bird's nest falls directly, which is already a good ready-to-eat concentrated bird's nest, but it is not the best;
5, strip, no gap after tilting, inverted after opening the lid, bird's nest will not fall, which is the best presentation of instant concentrated bird's nest.
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