The prerequisite for loving strawberries is buying fresh ones, and the prerequisite for buying fresh strawberries is knowing how to pick them. So, do you know how to choose strawberries? Although strawberries are great, the current state of food is concerning! People are afraid of buying strawberries treated with hormones. If you don't learn how to pick them, long-term consumption of strawberries treated with expanding agents can be harmful to your health.
1. Don't buy oddly shaped strawberries.
First, when picking strawberries, look at their variety. Large strawberries are often conical. If the shape is too strange, be cautious, as these might be hormone-treated strawberries.
2. Don't buy strawberries with uneven color.
Second, hormone-treated strawberries have uneven coloring, poor luster, and a distinct separation between green and red at the bottom near the stem.
3. Don't buy strawberries with overly red surface seeds.
On normal strawberries, the "sesame seeds" on the surface, which are their actual seeds, are golden yellow. If even these seeds are a vibrant red, you should be wary.
4. Don't buy strawberries with hollow flesh.
Normal strawberries have bright red flesh with few hollows. Hormone-treated strawberries can be easily broken open, have whitish flesh, more hollows, and don't taste good.
5. Don't buy strawberries that don't smell fragrant.
Finally, normal strawberries are very sweet with a uniform sweetness, and you can smell their fragrance just by getting close. In contrast, hormone-treated strawberries are bland and tasteless, and have no fragrance.