Don’t do it because of the beautiful design, but hurry to buy the green banh chung as it is very likely to be boiled with batteries.
How to buy delicious, clean and safe banh chung
In recent years, boiling of banh chung with batteries has spread throughout Vietnam, adversely affecting the health of users. Normally, boiling a batch of cake takes about 10-12 hours, but with a single stack in the pan, it only takes about 2 hours. In alkaline environments, starch absorbs water better, so the cake ripens faster.
In the battery, there are heavy metals like lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic … all toxic substances, dangerous for the brain, kidneys, heart and human fertility. Lead poisoning will lead to infertility, miscarriage, high blood pressure, and even lower IQ in children.
Boiled banh chung is green or purple in color.
How to distinguish boiled banh chung
The outer layer of leaves
You should not choose green banh chung because it is boiled with piles, the pile will release compounds which will help the green of the leaves to turn greener. Therefore, before buying, you should carefully observe the color of the cakes, the cakes boiled using traditional methods after 8-10 hours of baking, the leaves often turn dark yellow or yellowish green.
Banh chung
Traditional boiled banh chung has a light green or slightly yellowish crust, sticky rice. With battery-boiled cake, the crust is green, sticky, and eye-catching.
Vietnamese banh chung
Battery-cooked banh chung is not amaranth, nor flexible, does not smell of traditional boiled banh chung because it is pressed quickly.
To avoid buying boiled banh chung with batteries, you should choose to buy from reputable and branded stores. If possible, you should pack the banh chung at home, creating a Tet atmosphere for the family and ensuring food hygiene and safety.
Check the hardness
According to popular experience, the delicious banh chung held with moderate hand force, not too hard but not too soft, is often called banh don. When slicing cakes, the flesh and beans stick together without crumbling and falling out.
Choose to buy cakes from a long-standing establishment
Banh Chung establishments are very diverse: some are large, some have family businesses that only sell on Tet. You should buy banh chung from a long-standing cake packing facility, or place you know, to make sure you can buy delicious and clean banh chung, to ensure food hygiene and safety. .
Rice cakes.
Currently, in the market, there are many unique types of cakes made from special ingredients which are enjoyed by many people like banh chung, banh chung, black cake or banh chung Gac …
However, when choosing to buy these new types of cakes, housewives should pay attention to the color of the cake, not to choose a cake with too bright or too uniform a color. Even cakes made with natural ingredients can hardly be too dark or too fresh.
It is quite difficult to choose cakes made from clean ingredients if you don’t cut them. To keep the cake for a long time without mold and taste delicious, all the ingredients should be carefully prepared and clean. The cake is made from safe ingredients with a sticky layer and has a sweet aroma. The fatty flesh has a light white color while the lean meat is pink in the cake made from fresh ingredients.
How to store banh chung
If the weather is cool, you store the banh chung by wrapping it in plastic wrap and pulling it out when you eat it.
If it is hot, people should keep the cake in the refrigerator compartment to avoid mold or sour fermentation, then wrap it with wrap to avoid dry sticky rice, eat until the beginning, cut it. You need to steam or fry the cake before eating it.
You should find banh chung in prestigious places or if you have time you should do banh chung at home, just be able to have family fun and keep the traditional Tet food safe.
