How to distinguish between new rice and old rice?

With the rapid improvement of people's living standards, the variety of rice that everyone can buy is dazzling. Food safety is greater than the sky. In recent years, food safety issues have been frequently exposed. Aflatoxin is easily produced in old rice, which is a carcinogen and is extremely harmful to the human body.In this environment, it is important to have the ability to distinguish between new rice and old rice.

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Here are some tips for identifying new rice and old rice:

1. Look at the hardness: the hardness of the new rice is large, the protein content and transparency are high. When you buy, you can take a bite to distinguish whether it is new rice or old rice.

2. Look at the belly white: the color of the new rice is milky white or light yellow, and the color of the old rice is deeper.

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3. the new rice grain is even and shiny, the surface of the rice grain is gray powder, and the white groove pattern is old rice.

4. Insert your hand into a rice bag or a rice bucket. After taking it out, look at the surface of the hand. There is a little white powder surface. The evidence that it was slightly blown away is the new rice. Feeling greasy, it is old rice.

5. Moisture and aroma: There is more water in the new rice than in the old rice. New rice smells like the smell of paddy, but old rice does not.