Methods and skills of purchasing cucumbers

There are all kinds of cucumbers on the market now, including gherkins, cucumbers in North China and cucumbers in South China. Different cucumbers have different sizes and colors. Everyone should know how to distinguish between varieties when buying cucumbers. If you want to choose fresh cucumbers, you should also know the skills of buying cucumbers. Let's give you a detailed introduction.

Choose a cucumber. You can look at the thorns on the cucumber. It's important to have thorns, but not the more the better. If the thorns on the surface of cucumber are very small, they will all be broken at a touch, so it belongs to fresh and delicious cucumber. Cucumber strips are straight, slender and uniform, and short cucumbers have good meat quality and taste. Pumpkin-shaped melons, with big belly, sharp head and thin neck, are stunted or aged cucumbers after long-term storage, and there are more cucumbers with big belly and cucumber seeds. In addition, if the melon sticks and stems wither, they will be stored for a long time after picking.

You can also look at the color of cucumber. Generally, the color of cucumber is green and black, and the color is very uniform and natural. Yellow or nearly yellow melons are old melons. The vertical line and vertical edge of delicious cucumber skin are prominent, which can be detected by touching and looking at it. And those cucumbers with smooth surfaces and no vertical stripes are not delicious.

You can also see the top flower of cucumber, but the top flower cucumber is not necessarily fresh. It may be coated with chemicals. A good cucumber is a good cucumber because the top flower will naturally fall off because of maturity, leaving small yellow spots. In fact, the normal mature cucumber, the top flower will naturally fall off, and the top flower will shrink and leave a scar. If the protuberance at the top of cucumber looks like a small hat, it is obviously coated with gibberellin. Its typical feature is that there are obvious small protrusions at the junction of flower bones and flower buds. The top of naturally growing cucumbers should be naturally streamlined, and it is best not to buy cucumbers with obvious nodules on the top.

The above is the method and skill of purchasing cucumber. After reading the above introduction, you should have a certain understanding. If you like to eat cucumbers, you should know how to tell the difference between good and bad cucumbers. In order to prevent pesticide residues, you should rinse the cucumber with running water for more than ten minutes, and then scald it with boiling water, so as to completely remove the residual pesticides.