Secrets to Buying Fresh and Delicious Food, Guaranteed

Choosing food for dishes is essential; the success of a meal depends largely on the ingredients. If we know how to choose fresh and delicious food, the meal will be enticing and good for health. Below, PasGo will suggest some tips on how to buy fresh and delicious food!

To have a delicious, nutritious, and healthy meal, fresh and quality ingredients are essential. But not everyone knows how to select good-quality food. Here are some secrets to choosing fresh meat, fish, vegetables, and fruits for delicious dishes. Remember these tips when buying groceries to avoid any confusion!

1. Secrets to Choosing Fresh Meat

Dos:

- Pork, beef: Buy pieces of meat that are tender, have a fresh red color, and feel slightly sticky when touched. When pressed lightly with a finger, the meat should bounce back well, leaving no indentation and no dripping water. The meat should have a characteristic smell, not foul or strange. The surface of the meat should not have a film coating.

- Chicken: Buy live chickens, or if unsure how to prepare them, ask the seller to prepare them on the spot. Choose healthy chickens with reddish-pink combs, wings pressed tightly against the body, smooth and glossy feathers, and lively eyes. If buying pre-prepared chicken, choose ones with smooth and non-greasy skin, without any strange odor.

Avoid:

Choose meat that is pale or has red bruises.

Select pork with yellow fat, meat with white specks like rice grains, or choose meat with bruises as it indicates worm-infested meat.

Choose chicken with dark yellow skin, which may be dyed, or with bruises and blood clots on the skin.

- Some notes:

It's best to buy meat early in the market.

Avoid purchasing ground meat as it may be spoiled and difficult to clean. Consider buying a whole piece of meat, wash it thoroughly, and grind it at home.

2. Tips for selecting fish and seafood

Recommendation:

- Purchase live fish and seafood swimming in water.

- Fish: Opt for fish with large, clear eyes, slightly bulging, firm body, white scales, no peeling. Hold the fish tightly closed; if lifted, the gills should be pink, not purple. The slime on the body should be clear, viscous, and odorless.

- Crab: Select crabs that feel firm when pressing the abdomen; if hard, they have more meat. The outer shell should be cloudy gray, with large, firmly attached gills, legs, and claws moving vigorously, with intact coloration. Avoid shrimp with pink or red coloration as they are starting to spoil.

- Shrimp, Prawn: Choose shrimp with hard shells, translucent white, shining.

- Squid: Buy bright, shiny squids with firm, elastic flesh. Additionally, fresh squids have bright, clear eyes, visible to the naked eye. Pay attention to the tentacles; if they are intact and firmly attached, it indicates very fresh squid.

- Snail: Choose those with well-filed edges near the outer shell, and when lightly touched, the snail closes tightly. Avoid snails with strange odors.

- Clam: Buy clams with tongues sticking out; these are fresh clams. When alive, the shells of clams open and close naturally. Clams with closed mouths, a foul smell, or unable to close properly are dead and should be avoided.

- Mussel: Select mussels tightly closed; this indicates fresh, live mussels.

3. Tips for selecting vegetables:

Recommendation:

- Vegetables: Buy varieties with green or characteristic colors without deformities. They should have a distinctive smell, not blackened, and no strange odor. Purchase vegetables according to the season.

- Leafy Greens: Choose bundles of fresh greens, not scratched, wilted, or bruised. The leaves should be firm, not soft, and the stems should be free from slime.

Avoid:

Buying vegetables and roots that are overly faded or pale compared to normal.

Selecting vegetables and roots with spots or white marks, strange blemishes.

Those are some tips to choose fresh and delicious food. With the above suggestions from PasGo, we hope you'll feel more confident in selecting the freshest ingredients for your home-cooked meals. However, we won't always eat at home; occasionally, it's nice to change the atmosphere, go out to eat for a more diverse meal experience, right?

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Compiled by Ngoc Anh - PasGo.vn