Coconut, sago, tortoise Ling ointment. What are the desserts we eat made of?

In summer, desserts and ice desserts

Began to appear frequently in everyone's field of vision.

You have a milk tea and sweet water.

More and more ingredients can be added to it.

Coconut, sago, tortoise Ling cream and so on.

So what are these ingredients made of?

01

What is the relationship between coconut fruit and coconut?

Unlike what many people think, coconut is not directly produced by coconut, but the product of coconut water fermented by bacteria. Coconut water is the part of coconut that can be drunk directly with a straw. After inoculating Glucoacetobacter xylinum, they are fermented in coconut water. Using sugars and other substances, they can produce a kind of polysaccharide-bacterial cellulose, which floats on the surface of coconut water and accumulates into a thick layer of white substance, which is removed and processed into coconut fruit in dessert shop.

Coconut itself is tasteless, but its popularity is mainly due to its slippery, chewy taste. In addition, coconut is also a good weight loss food, its main ingredient is cellulose, which can not be digested and absorbed by the human body, but can enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote digestion, and increase the sense of fullness.

02

What kind of rice is Simi?

The so-called sago is not actually rice, but is made from starch produced by Saigu coconut (Metroxylon sagu). Xigu coconut and coconut are both palms, native to Southeast Asia, and look like both coconuts and palms in appearance. There is a lot of starch in the stems of Xigu coconut. People "scrape" the starch off, wash it, put it, and hang it to dry. When it is not completely dry, shake it like Yuanxiao, and it becomes a grain of sago. Once cooked, it can be added to the dessert. But now, Simi is mainly made from starch directly in the factory.

03

What are the pearls made of playing teeth?

The "pearl" in milk tea, also known as powder circle, is made of starch as the main raw material. It is usually made of cassava flour (Tapioca), as well as sweet potato powder and potato powder. In order to have a good taste, wheat protein will be added, which can better combine with starch, making the "pearl" more elastic. In the early days, the color of powder balls was white. Today, the more common black is called pearl powder balls. Caramel is added to the powder balls to increase the sweetness of black sugar.

04

What is the pudding made of?

Pudding is widely defined. It generally refers to foods whose ingredients are solidified into solid forms, but in a narrow sense, only semi-solidified desserts whose main material is milky yellow are regarded as pudding. Most of the pudding we eat in the dessert shop is made of corn starch, gelatin or seaweed extract, plus some food pigment.

05

Is tortoise Ling ointment related to tortoise?

Tortoise Ling ointment and fairy grass color and texture is similar, but a bite will find that this thing is not ordinary bitter, so usually with a lot of sugar and condensed milk and so on. The main ingredients of tortoise Ling ointment are "tortoise" (turtle, Chinemys reevesiis) and "Ling". The tortoise is the belly armour of the tortoise, which is rich in animal collagen, which is the main factor that makes the tortoise Ling ointment can be frozen. And Ling, mainly with soil Poria cocos (Smilax glabra), but can also be used Poria cocos (Poria cocos).

Poria cocos is a plant called bá qi china. Smilax china is very common in the forests of our country, and there are many kinds of them. Most of them are vines and have one common feature: the axils of each leaf (if you think of the petiole as an arm and the stem as a body, you know where I'm talking about) there are a pair of tendrils. The underground part of smooth-leaf Smilax china is "soil Poria cocos".

Poria cocos is a large fungus of Polyporaceae, parasitic on the root of Pinus koraiensis. The mycelium of Poria cocos absorbs tree roots and the surrounding vegetative growth, forming sclerotia, sclerotia development to a certain extent will be exposed to the surface.

06

Whose ice powder is it?

Although ice powder is not available in dessert shops, it is a common cool snack on the streets of southwestern provinces such as Sichuan and Yunnan. The main thing that makes ice powder freeze is pectin (one of the main components of the cell wall of higher plants), and what provides this pectin is the Nicandra physaloides of Solanaceae.

False acid pulp is a very common weed characterized by light blue bell-shaped flowers with purple spots and inflated sepals like small lanterns. When making ice powder, soak the seeds of false acid pulp with water, take the leaching solution and add lime water, etc., set for a while, add brown sugar water and go to the street for sale.