According to Dr.BS Truong Hong Son, Director of the Vietnam Applied Medicine Institute, bird's nest or bird's nest with high nutritional content and good for health.This food enhances the health of bones, brain, improves the digestive system, enhances the immune system.
Normally, consumers are difficult to identify real - fake bird's nest through observation.This can lead to buying fake goods, poor quality goods.Salanganes'Nest can be made from jelly powder, starch, egg whites, noodles and some unknown compounds.
Using fake bird's nest not only does not benefit the body but also affects the overall health, even causes some unwanted effects.
Salanganes'Nest or bird's nest has high nutritional content and good for health.(Artwork)
How to distinguish real oats - fake
We can rely on some of the following criteria to distinguish real and fake bird's nest.
Colors, bird's nest
There are 3 types of white bird's nest on the market (opaque white), pink bird's nest (light pink or can turn yellow, orange), bird's nest (characteristic red).The fake bird's nest is bright white, if illuminating the light can see the transparent bird's nest.In addition, the real oats when observing will easily notice that the nest is interwoven.
Taste
How to check fake bird's nest is used by many people to taste.Accordingly, you take a small nest and taste, if not too sweet, the taste like egg white is real bird's nest.If the sweetness, you may have bought the wrong quality bird's nest because it is often mixed with sugar to create adhesion.
The elasticity of Yen
You can check the fake bird's nest by gently squeezing the bird's nest.If you see crunchy, fragile, it is a sign of real bird's nest.The fake bird's nest is mixed with many other substances so it is often softer and elastic.
Soak
This is a simple method and has high accuracy to identify real - fake bird's nest.Soaked in water, the real bird's nest will gradually expand, retain the color as the original, smelling the fishy smell like egg white.If the bird's nest is dissolved in water, and turns to other colors, has a strange odor from additives, is fake, poor quality.
The notes when using bird's nest
Experts recommend that bird's nest is a dish that helps to increase the body's resistance, but using the wrong dosage or improperly can backfire.For healthy people, eating bird's nest may not affect too much health.However, the elderly, young children, sick people who eat too much nest will adversely affect the digestive system in particular and health in general.The reason, the ingredient in the oats up to 45-55% is protein, eating too much protein is not good for the body.
Therefore, the elderly, patients should only eat bird's nest 2-3 times/week, each time about 3g.In addition, experts recommend eating long and regular oats.Children under one year of age should not eat bird's nest in any form because the digestive system has not been fully developed.Babies cannot absorb all the nutrients from the oats.
Children 1-3 years old, can practice eating bird's nest or drink bird's nest.However, because bird's nest is a nutritious and high -protein food, parents need to pay attention to the dosage of children to avoid loading too many nutrients in one time, not good for the body.At this stage, parents can let children get used to and eat bird's nest each time about 1-2 g, eat 3 times a week.
Children 3-10 years of age begin the brain and physical development stage, which is the most appropriate age to eat bird's nest.Yen provides adequate energy and nutrients for children, so they can eat 2-3 g each time, 3 times a week.