Do You Really Know How To Choose Chili Powder?

Chili powder is red or red-yellow, oily, and uniform powder. It is not only our common condiment but also an essential barbecue ingredient. It is mainly a mixture of red pepper, yellow pepper, pepper seeds, and some pepper stems. It has the inherent spicy smell of pepper and sneezes.

Authentic ones should be pounded with stone mortar, or they can be directly dried pepper, blasted in the sun, or baked in a pot over a slow fire and then pounded into powder.

Efficacy and function of chili powder

Chili is warm in nature, pungent in taste, and has little poison. It enters the spleen and stomach meridian. It is mainly used for indigestion, cold stomach pain, rheumatic pain, lumbar myalgia, and other diseases.

Excessive consumption will harm human health: because too much capsaicin will violently stimulate gastrointestinal mucosa, cause stomach pain, diarrhea, burning and pricking pain of anus, induce gastrointestinal diseases and hemorrhoids bleeding.

Therefore, people suffering from esophagitis, gastroenteritis, gastric ulcer, and hemorrhoids should eat less or avoid pepper. Chili is a product of great heat. People with fever or yin deficiency and fire, hypertension, and tuberculosis should also be careful.

Buying tips

• Look at the color.

The normal chili powder is orange-red, while the ground chili powder is dark red. The pepper added with industrial raw materials has a bright and reddish complexion, and some are bright yellow or yellowish gray.

• Smell it.

Normal chili powders can smell the inherent spicy flavor of chili, which is very choking and tastes spicy; Adulterated chili powders are not spicy and rarely pungent.

• Rub it with your hands.

Normal chili powders are rubbed and twisted by hand. The color dyed on the fingers is red with yellow. They will be washed off with water; If pigment dye is added, the fingers will be dyed red when rubbed, and it is not easy to wash them off with water.

• Use blisters.

The pigment in chili belongs to natural pigment, which is difficult to dissolve in water. After normal chili powder is soaked in water, the yellow chili seeds, red chili powder, and water layers will be clear, and the water is relatively clear; After the adulterated chili powders are soaked, there will be light yellow objects in the water except chili seeds. If the level in the water is unclear, the water will turn red.

Purchase misunderstandings

❌The redder the chili powder, the better?

The chili powder with an unusually red color may be the chili powder dyed with Sudan red, so choose carefully.

❌The longer the shelf life of chili powder, the better?

Pepper powder with a long shelf life may be fumigated with sulfur or added with preservatives.

Storage method of chili powder

After drying the chili powder, put it in the container, wrap it with garlic cloves, tie two small holes with a fresh-keeping bag, and place it together in the container for sealed storage. Special attention should be paid to moisture and insect prevention.

So after reading this blog, do you know how to choose high-quality chili powders and granulated garlic? We are a professional chili powder and Roasted Dried Granulated garlic supplier,  any interests, welcome to contact us.

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