Tremella is rich in nutrients and has the effects of detoxification, nourishing blood and qi, promoting diuresis, and moisturizing. It is often cooked with soap rice, lotus seeds, and silver ear to make porridge. In addition to its beauty and nourishing effects, it can also promote diuresis and stop diarrhea. Why does tremella taste sour? Can tremella with sour taste be eaten?
Tremella tastes sour
It may have gone bad.
Tremella is a resin secreted from the bark of the peach tree, also known as peach oil, peach resin, and peach blossom tears. It has the effects of moisturizing, promoting diuresis, and nourishing blood. The main components are lactose and arabinose, which contain nutrients such as sugars and proteins. Tremella has a sweet taste with a hint of sourness. If the sour taste is particularly pronounced, it is likely to have gone bad.
Can tremella with sour taste be eaten?
It depends on the situation.
Some tremella may have a slight sour taste, which becomes more pronounced when eaten with acidic foods such as yogurt, lemon, and hawthorn. In this case, it can still be eaten. However, if the tremella has a strong sour taste and changes in odor, it is not recommended to eat it. Spoiled tremella may contain a large number of bacteria and microorganisms, which can cause diarrhea, stomach pain, and the nutritional value and medicinal effects of spoiled tremella are also affected.
Is it true that tremella with sour taste is fake?
Not necessarily.
Tremella comes in different sizes, with a few impurities inside, and comes in colors such as light yellow, dark yellow, and transparent. The quality is better if it is amber in color. Fake tremella is mostly processed and refined, and it tastes like industrial glue, while some have no taste. Tremella with a sour taste is not necessarily fake, but fake tremella may also have a sour taste. Whether or not it has a sour taste is not a reliable way to distinguish between real and fake tremella.
How to distinguish between real and fake tremella?
1. Size
Tremella does not have a fixed shape, while fake tremella is processed and has a uniform size without impurities, and the color has a fixed shape.
2. Color
Tremella is a light yellow transparent solid natural resin, while fake tremella contains other gums mixed with tremella, such as turpentine, which looks similar in appearance, but the longer it is stored, the yellower the color becomes and it has a pungent odor, which is very different from tremella.
What can tremella be stewed with?
Tremella, soap rice, red dates, and wolfberries soup
Ingredients
15g of tremella, 15g of soap rice, 10g of wolfberries, 5 red dates, suitable amount of rock sugar
Instructions
1. Soak the tremella for more than fifteen hours.
2. Soap rice should also be soaked for more than ten hours.
3. Rinse the wolfberries, soak the red dates, and wash the impurities in the tremella.
4. Put all the ingredients into a double boiler, add an appropriate amount of water, and skim the surface.
5. Stew in a double boiler for two hours, then add an appropriate amount of rock sugar before serving.
Tremella and fresh pear soup
Ingredients
2 snow pears, 20g of tremella, 4 red dates, 100g of traditional brown sugar, a small handful of wolfberries, 2000ml of water.
Instructions
1. Wash the snow pears, remove the skin and core, and cut into small cubes.
2. Wash the red dates and wolfberries.
3. Soak the tremella for more than ten hours, and remove impurities.
4. Put the snow pears, tremella, red dates, and wolfberries into a container.
5. Pour warm water into the container and cover it with heat-resistant cling film.
6. Steam for one hour, and add brown sugar in the last ten minutes.
