How to thaw fresh tremella after freezing

Fresh tremella can be stored for three months in frozen environment, but it needs to be sealed and packaged to ensure the storage time, otherwise it will be easily mixed with other foods. Tremella is mainly used to make sugar water. We need to soak tremella for 24 hours, and then put it in a pot to make tremella lotus seed soup. It is best not to leave tremella for too long, which will affect its nutritional value.

The purchased fresh tremella can be sealed and put in the refrigerator for about a week; Or it can be sealed and put into the freezer of the refrigerator for about three months.

Identification method of tremella fuciformis:

1. Look at the appearance

Generally speaking, the sensory differences of different quality tremella are great. High-quality tremella is dry, white in color, thick in meat, complete in flowers, round in umbrella cover, and most importantly, there are no pedicels and impurities. Ordinary tremella is worse. Although the color is white, it is slightly beige in white. Although it looks like a complete flower, the meat is slightly thinner. Poor silver ears are beige. It doesn't feel dry to the touch. The meat is very thin and sometimes there are spots. There are relatively many impurities in the pedicle, and the shape is incomplete, and the diameter is generally below 1.3 cm.

Smell

Fresh tremella should be acid-free, odorless and odorless. Dry tremella is white, smoked and bleached with sulfur. Only fresh or soaked tremella is white, and the normal color after drying or drying is golden yellow.

Taste it

Tremella itself should be tasteless, so try it when you buy it. If there is a pungent or spicy feeling on the tongue, it proves that the tremella is smoked with sulfur and is fake.

Good quality tremella, the ear flower is big and loose, the ear flesh is thick, the color is white or slightly yellow, there are no black spots or impurities on the pedicle, and the flower shape is round and beautiful.

Look at the price

The quantity of wild tremella is scarce, and it has been a valuable tonic since ancient times, and the price is very high. Although tremella is now cultivated artificially, the price is still not cheap. The price of Red Star Market in Changsha, Hunan is 57 yuan/kg, and that of Lingjiatang Market in Jiangsu is 66 yuan/kg. Therefore, if there are tremella that sell for more than ten yuan a catty, everyone should pay attention to see if it is really tremella.

Is fresh tremella poisonous?

In fact, the "fresh tremella" circulating in the market is processed, non-toxic and can be cooked and eaten directly. In fact, the real fresh tremella is different, different from ordinary tremella.

In fact, the real fresh tremella, that is, freshly picked and unprocessed tremella, contains porphyrin photosensitive substances. After eating fresh tremella, porphyrin photosensitive substances will be distributed to human epidermal cells with blood circulation. Exposure at this time may lead to solar dermatitis, skin redness, itching, pain, bright red papules and blisters. Porphyrin photosensitive substances are also easily absorbed by throat mucosa, leading to symptoms such as throat edema, general malaise, runny nose, tears, fatigue and shortness of breath. The correct way to eat tremella is to process and dry it, and the porphyrin contained in it will be destroyed and disappear, and the above symptoms will not appear after eating.

Fresh tremella sold in the market are all processed and non-toxic, so as long as you understand this concept, you are not afraid to eat fresh tremella. The fresh tremella we usually see is non-toxic, so we can buy and eat it with confidence, which is of great benefit to our health.