How to select Cistanche deserticola

When we buy any food, we should choose it carefully. Only in this way can we buy products that satisfy us. However, there are certain methods and skills in the purchase of many products. It is not as simple as people imagine. So what is the method to choose Cistanche? We should observe from all aspects and then choose. Next, let us learn about how to choose Cistanche deserticola.

Regarding the purchase of Cistanche deserticola, I believe that everyone has searched a lot of results on the Internet, but very few of them are helpful to us, and some of them are even incoherent and of little help to us. The price of Cistanche is relatively expensive, and careless purchase will definitely bring a lot of confusion to everyone, and will have a certain impact on how to eat Cistanche in the future.

The best quality Cistanche deserticola: Cistanche oili. Since it is a top quality product, it has its advantages. The ingredients contained in Cistanche oili are several times that of Cistanche deserticola. The therapeutic effect of edible Cistanche oili is much better than that of ordinary Cistanche deserticola within the same base period. Therefore, it is relatively expensive compared to ordinary Cistanche deserticola. Friends with good economic conditions can buy Cistanche oili as the first choice. Then how to identify the authenticity and quality of Cistanche oili? It is a little difficult to identify before purchase. It can only be judged by appearance. Friends who shop online must choose a guaranteed store to buy. Before buying, please pay more attention to the pictures of Cistanche oili circulating on the Internet. The China Cistanche Network Picture Library has relevant picture information. Go and learn more about it. After purchasing, you can heat the Cistanche to determine whether it is the real Cistanche (because it is really difficult to distinguish between Cistanche and wet Cistanche before heating). After heating (steaming), let the Cistanche cool down naturally. If it becomes hard, it means that it is the real Cistanche, because Cistanche has a relatively high gelatin content. It becomes soft when heated and hard when cold, while wet Cistanche is soft in different hot and cold conditions.

What does Cistanche look like? Let’s first take a look at its appearance. The fleshy stem of Cistanche deserticola is long and flat cylindrical, 3 to 15 cm long, 2 to 8 cm in diameter, thick at the bottom and thin at the top. The surface is brown or gray-brown, densely covered with fleshy scales arranged in a shingle-like manner, and the scales are rhombus or triangular. Heavy weight, hard to break. The cross section is brown with light brown dot-like vascular bundles arranged in wavy rings. The wood accounts for about 4/5 of the total and is sometimes hollow. Slight smell, sweet taste, slightly bitter. The best ones are those with thick stripes, densely covered scaly leaves and a soft and smooth texture.

There are two types of Cistanche deserticola, and both are very different. There are two types of commercial products: light Cistanche and salty Cistanche. The best light Cistanche are those with large and plump bodies, fine scales, gray-brown to dark-brown color, high oil content, and fleshy and soft stems. The best salty Cistanche is black in color, glutinous in texture, with fine scales and thick stripes, and a flat and round body. Cistanche deserticola is a specialty plant in Inner Mongolia. It is suitable for long-term tonic and is known as desert ginseng. Its shape is also very distinctive, and its smell is sweet and somewhat bitter. When selecting it, you must observe its appearance.

The selection method of Cistanche is relatively complicated, but as long as we choose it carefully, it is not a particularly difficult thing. Cistanche is a relatively precious thing, so we'd better go to a larger supermarket to buy it, which is more secure. Of course, we can also buy what we like.