In today's article I will talk about three ways how to distinguish high-quality cooked sausage from low-quality. I rarely buy boiled sausage, but I still want to understand this issue in order to buy the least unhealthy product. All methods will be tested by example. For this I bought three types of sausage: for 340 rubles, 500 rubles. and 590 rubles. (prices per kilogram). Let's see what happens.
1. When buying a sausage, it is worth immediately pay attention to the composition, if it contains soybeans, starch and chemicals is a poor quality sausage. So in the sausage for 339 rubles, the composition contains a whole bunch of various chemical additives and starch, in the rest of the samples there was no starch, and from chemistry there was only an acidity regulator. To see photos of the trains, scroll to the right.
2. The presence of starch in cooked sausage significantly impairs the taste of the product. If you do not believe the data on the package, then you can easily check for the presence of starch - just drop a drop of iodine on a piece of sausage. If iodine turns blue - then there is starch, if orange remains, there is no starch. The experiment confirmed the data in the compositions of the sausages - only in the sample for 340 rubles. iodine turned blue. Scroll the photo to the right.
3. The color of the sausage should be pale pink, if it is bright, then there are a lot of dyes in the sausage. All samples are roughly the same color. It is considered that sausage in natural casing better quality (3 sample for 590 rubles. in a natural casing), but its shelf life should not exceed 5 days from the date of manufacture. Also, boiled sausage should not be salty, if there is a distinct taste of salt, then the producers want to mask the low-quality ingredients. My husband and I tried three samples blindly to taste. A sausage with chemistry and starch is immediately determined by both taste and density - very poor quality product. The other two samples are on the same level, perhaps the sausage in a natural casing tastes a little better, as it has a creamier taste. If you liked the article - rate it with your thumb up!