How to choose delicious meats to ensure food safety

The types of pork, chicken, beef . are the types of meat that housewives choose every day for meals. But to choose fresh meat, avoid fake meats, dirty meat to ensure food safety, not everyone knows.

Beef

The tips below will help you avoid buying fake beef, not delicious beef to ensure food safety.

  1. Delicious beef is bright red (note, dark red beef is not delicious meat).
  2. Beef fat must be bright yellow, white and hard veins when pressed. If you press your hand to see soft fat, you should not buy.
  3. Choose small, soft, not too smooth beef fibers. You should not buy hard and large fibers.

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Delicious beef with bright red color (Photo: Internet)

  1. Finally you have to press your hand against the fiber . If the meat is fresh and delicious, the meat has good elasticity, not sticky hands and no odor.
  2. Beef is usually better than bull meat. If you choose the type of beef with silk, the better. Because only this type of beef has white fat, fine grain.
  3. Beef has a pale color, there are round white spots between the fibers of the flesh, the cows are slug, flukes or rice. Meat that smells bad, you should not buy. Because it can be dangerous to your family's health.
  4. Besides fresh beef, there are signs : dark red, dark yellow fat, yellow bone. Elasticity of poor meat, pasty meat, viscous meat surface, sticky hands when pressed.

Pork

To buy fresh meat, when buying, you need to observe and choose carefully:

  1. Healthy pork is usually light pink to dark red while super lean pork is often unusually deep red, bright and shiny.
  2. The meat is firm, not mushy, good elastic, no rust, viscous . Use your finger to press the meat into a dent, but leave no trace when you lift your finger. The flesh fibers are all.

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Healthy pork usually has light pink to dark red color (Photo: Internet)

  1. The meat is cut dry, the meat is slightly hissed, muscles are slightly seized; soft, fatty, clear, white, tusy layer, when smelling, there is no smell of oil.
  2. The organs of healthy and fresh pigs have natural colors, looking at the surface with luster, shine.
  3. Delicious pork when bought, boiled with clear water, big fat, up the smell of meat and especially no strange smell.

Ready-made chicken

  1. Ready-made chicken is often available.
  2. Super egg chicken is very similar to chicken so it should be clearly distinguished. Chicken skin is pale yellow and only dark in some places, such as the breast, wings, back, while the super-chicken is white or yellow all over the body (possibly due to staining of toxic colors).
  3. To identify whether the chicken is stained or not, observe if the chicken skin is yellow and the inner fat layer is white, then it is chemically dyed chicken.

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Ready-to-cook chicken usually has a compact, compact, narrow body.(Photo: Internet)

  1. Chicken skin is thin, smooth, high elasticity. Choose fresh looking chicken, no bad smell or antibiotic smell, on skin without bruises or hematoma.
  2. If you want to buy good chicken, you should not choose dark chicken because it is chicken that died before doing.
  3. In addition, to avoid buying water pumped chickens, you should pay attention, use your hand to press on the position suspected to be pumping water (mainly thighs, breast) to check, if it is pasty, smooth or deformed, you should avoid , do not buy anymore. Because water pumped into chickens is often mixed and soldered (according to some shop owners).

Chicken is alive

To choose live chickens, you need to be aware of:

  1. Chicken must look healthy, agile.The chicken must be bright red , the eyes look flexible, not lethargic. Silky hair, close to the body.
  2. Sharp chicken beaks, no viscous flow at the mine.
  3. Straight, slender chicken legs ; The skin is yellow and shiny.
  4. The feather mark sees a thin, soft, glossy chicken skin; There are some large yellow streaks under the breast, wings. Through the skin can see meat, blood rays in the armpits, under the wings because the skin is not fat.
  5. The anus is ruddy, flashing, contracting well, with no abnormal wetness, water out or splitting.
  6. Flip the test wing under the armpit, if the chicken injected with water will have a small red dot. Around the room water mark is black. For a while, black will spread out.
  7. Can also observe chicken feces, healthy chickens will not have golden foam, mucus or fresh blood . abnormally.

Note : Avoid buying chickens with crested or purple bruises, sullen, flowing water, touching kites that feel stiff, lethargic eyes, sagging, tired appearance, head always bent down. The skin of these chickens is often wrinkled, the body is skinny, the bones are inert, the hair is frayed; cold, dry feet; The anus is white or red, watery or has feces sticking around. That's a symptom for illed chicken.

If you want to buy delicious chicken without having to do the surgery yourself, you should carefully select the living chickens, then ask the seller of the surgery on the spot. Thus, the meat is fresh and fragrant without fear of buying sticky or stained chicken.

Goat meat

Goat meat can be processed with lots of fried and goat dishes, goat hot pot, goat salad . However, women also need to pay attention to choose carefully to buy fresh and safe meat.

  1. The delicious fresh goat is red, shiny, and the flesh is firm and firm, soft, elastic and not sticky, no strange smell.

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The delicious fresh goat is red, shiny, and the flesh is firm and firm, soft, elastic and not sticky, no strange smell. (Photo: Internet)

  1. Goat meat is pale in color, the flesh is not sure, not elastic, the surface is too dry or sticky in the hand, the odor is that the meat has degenerated.

When going to buy goat meat many people often do not know what is the mountain goat, what is the goat. Actually, how to distinguish them is very simple. Normally, mountain goat meat smells worse , isotope goat meat makes quite a bit, small and short-grain goat meat is small and short, long-grain mountain goat meat is big and big. Goat meat is hand-touch, mountain goat meat does not touch the hand. If the meat is left over, it can be distinguished from small and curly goat hair, straight and hard goat hair.