How to identify blended vinegar

1, is the smell, brewed vinegar, with fragrance in acid, soft smell, and the blended vinegar lacks fragrance.

2, that is, the concentration, the blended vinegar is obviously low in concentration.

3. Look at the foam and shake the vinegar bottle. Brewed vinegar has many bubbles and long residence time, while blended vinegar is the opposite.

It depends on the price. Due to the sophisticated production technology and long brewing cycle, the cost of fermented vinegar is relatively high, and the product price is relatively high. The price of a bottle of 500ml brewed vinegar in the supermarket is about 2~3 times that of blended vinegar.

5. It's the taste of the product. In terms of taste, the fermented mature vinegar has a long aftertaste, and the blended vinegar has a sharper taste and a pungent sour taste.

Extended data:

According to national standards, vinegar can be divided into two kinds, one is fermented vinegar, and the other is blended vinegar, which contains not only acetic acid, but also various organic acids such as lactic acid and some raw materials and nutrients brought by their degradation, and has a soft taste. However, the content of organic acids such as lactic acid in blended vinegar is getting less and less, and the acidity is getting stronger and stronger.

Blended vinegar is a flavoring vinegar made of fermented vinegar as the main body and food additives. Among them, the proportion of fermented vinegar shall not be less than 50%. The former takes a long time to brew, and the process is complicated, so it can't meet the market demand, so blended vinegar appears.

According to the standard of aged vinegar, "the proportion of fermented vinegar in aged vinegar (blended vinegar) shall not be less than 50%", but so far, the relevant departments have never given a clear method to distinguish aged vinegar from fermented vinegar, and it is impossible to distinguish whether enterprises have added not less than 50% fermented vinegar when producing aged vinegar.

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