source: 2010-6-17 Shun Net - the city girl
the sulphur smoked ginger appearance (right) is more white and tender.
ginger smoked with sulphur is light yellow, fresh and fresh, and sells well, but it is harmful to health for a long time. Recently, Mr. Liu called Mr. Liu to buy ginger in the seven Li Bao vegetable wholesale market and was told by the peddlers that many ginger in the market were "sulfur ginger". He wanted to note the matter in the declaration.
[b] reported the wholesale market to sell "sulfur ginger" [/b]
Mr. Liu lives near Hong Lou Plaza. He often goes to the seven Li Bao vegetable wholesale market to buy vegetables. Some time ago, when he went to the market to buy ginger, he found Jiang Shirun, water and spirit, the surface was like a layer of wax. "The peddlers began to say ginger, and finally admitted that ginger was smoked with sulphur." Mr. Liu said he bought some ginger and went home for three or four days.
Mr. Liu said that the ginger bought before was stored in the refrigerator for two or three months without any problem. Even if you don't put it in the fridge, it will dry at most and will never rot. "Eating ginger like this may be harmful to your health. Even the wholesale market sells "sulfur ginger", where can we find ginger that is not smoked? Mr. Liu said helplessly.
[b] visited many vendors to admit [/b]
June 10th at 11 a.m., and the reporter came to the Seven Mile vegetable wholesale market. On the western side of the market, there are more than 10 cars selling ginger. Vendors mostly come from Qingzhou and Laiwu. They use cars as stalls and run them all the year round.
reporters leave three supermarkets. Because of the sale of "sulphur ginger" in the nearby supermarkets, their business has been hit, so they also want to enter some "sulphur ginger".
a man selling ginger told reporters that ginger was 7.6 yuan per kilogram. Their ginger is made in Qingzhou, big and well sold, better than Ginger in Laiwu. They can provide "sulphur ginger".
in front of another booth, the reporter saw two rows of ginger before and after neatly arranged on the train. The ginger on the front is moist and white and shiny. It looks very fresh. The ginger image behind is just washed with water. The color is dark, and the selling phase is obviously not as good as the former.
selling ginger women said that the shiny ginger was smoked with sulphur and "not smoked". The color is dark and not smoked.
reporters picked up two kinds of ginger and heard the smell. The smoked ginger had a faint pungent odor, and the smoked ginger gave off scent.
the reporter also asked three other vendors, two of whom admitted to sell "sulfur ginger". A female stall owner also said that they usually smoked ginger after 6 p.m. and smoked until 2 o'clock in the morning. The smoked ginger was sold directly. When smoked ginger, first ignite sulphur on the truck, put several bricks on top, and then stack the ginger around the bricks. Finally, cover the ginger with the tarpaulin. It is usually smoked for five or six hours.
female stall holders say that smoked ginger is sold wholesale to other small vendors in the farmer's market, while others are sold to supermarkets.
after that, the vendor returned to the driver's cab and pulled out some flaky yellow objects. She said that this is the sulfur used in smoked ginger, which was purchased at the agricultural technology station of the old town, and used to prevent fruit trees from getting ill.
[b] endangers liver and kidney [/b]
Xu Rongting, vice director of China's poisoning and treatment of Specialized Committee and the chief physician of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University, said that industrial sulfur contains toxic substances such as lead and arsenic. It is absolutely not allowed to be used as an additive in food production or to be used to smoked vegetables. The sulphur sold by the agricultural technology station is usually industrial sulphur.
Xu Rongting said, eating food that has been smoked by industrial sulphur can cause damage to the human nervous system, and the light will appear dizzy, eye flower, mental dispersion, and body fatigue. If consumed for a long time, it will cause conjunctivitis, eczema and so on. It will also seriously affect human liver and kidney function.
[b] news link how to identify "sulfur ginger" [/b]
when buying ginger, 3 can be used to identify "sulfur ginger". Smell and check whether there is any peculiar smell or sulphur smell on the surface of ginger. Taste, not strong gingerage or change of taste should be carefully bought. Look, the normal ginger is dry, dark color, surface potholes, and some soil, "sulphur ginger" is more tender, pale yellow, hand rubbed, ginger peel easily peeled.