What does rice feel like?

Usually, the grain size of new rice is uniform, smooth and full, shiny, with a small amount of broken rice and yellow rice. The surface of rice grains in old rice is grayish white powder or has white furrows. If we hold a handful of rice in our hands and carefully observe the proportion of rice with bran powder in our hands, if it is qualified rice bran powder, it is very few. Bian Xiao, who has a lot of bran powder, advises you not to buy it.

2. Look at the color of rice

Generally speaking, the color of new rice is milky white or light yellow, while the color of old rice is relatively dark. Usually, new rice gives people the impression that the color is crystal clear and bright, and the gloss is good, but if the rice is stored for a long time, the color will gradually darken. After a long time, it will even turn light brown and yellow.

3. Look at that belly as big as a grain of rice

Maybe everyone will have questions, what is a white belly? Let Bian Xiao tell you that the belly white of rice generally refers to the opaque white spots on rice, and the white spots become belly white in the outer abdomen. If you see opaque white spots on the belly of rice, it means that the water content of rice is too high, and the rice is not mature enough at harvest, so the belly is white. The whiter the belly, the higher the water content of rice, the lower the protein content and the less the nutrients.

4. Look at the hardness of rice

If the rice is harder, it usually means that the rice is more chewy. In general, the hardness of new rice is relatively high, and the content of protein is also relatively high. When shopping, pinch rice with two fingers. If it is a little hard and the rice is not broken, it is new rice. If the rice is broken, it is old rice. The more broken, the longer the storage time. When shopping, you can choose a few grains of rice to chew in your mouth. New rice usually clicks (crackles), which makes it brittle to bite. It feels like a little thing on the tongue, and it feels a little sweet in the mouth. And old rice put it in his mouth and bit it, and it broke into powder, and there was a sticky powder stuck on his tongue.

5. Smell the smell of rice

Generally speaking, the moisture content in the rice grains of new rice is generally more than that of the rice ground by Chen Gu, and the new rice will smell a faint natural fragrance. Old rice, on the other hand, has no obvious fragrance, and may have peculiar smell or even musty smell. Of course, if the taste of rice is particularly sweet, everyone needs to be vigilant to see if there are additives such as flavors added to the rice.

Step 6 look at the season

It can also be distinguished from the season. If you want to buy new rice, you should have more new rice about a month after the rice harvest season. In the immature season of rice, it should be all the rice produced last year, usually in old rice.