How to choose the best products at the supermarket: Tips from a professional shopper

You probably already know that you should not buy products with expired shelf life, rotting fruit and meat in damaged packaging. We will tell you about the non-obvious life hacking, to help choose the best from the merely good products.

Vegetables

Smooth, beautiful cucumbers and smooth, shiny tomatoes - it's not always a good thing.

Vegetables grow imperfect due to temperature variations during day and night time. If crooked cucumbers, it is likely that they were grown in your region, and not somewhere in Turkey, where it is always hot. So, they ripped off the beds at the peak of ripeness and transported unripe few days.

Color is also important. What cucumber looks more delicious?

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Which would you prefer cucumbers, the main thing - do not get soft or in a package, which contains condensate.

The tomatoes is the most important odor. If from the beautiful tomato or branches are not characteristic aroma comes, he will not be juicy and tasty. At the touch of a tomato should be soft but elastic. We stalk tomato should not be yellowing.

Choose avocado harder. It is clear that it should not be hard as a rock. But there is another secret: look at color under the stem. Which of the avocado you put in your basket?

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When buying mushrooms look, so they do not crumble or break. The younger the fungus, the closer to each other disposed under the cap plate. Older specimens plate set wide apart.

Mushroom cap should be closed. In fresh mushroom spores will not be seen, and if they are still noticeable - see that they were not gray. Mushroom itself - a light-colored, without black specks. Do not buy mushrooms from damaged or dark film between the stem and cap.

Frozen products should be interspersed in the package, and not to lie one lumpy. Icicles stuck together indicate that the contents are frozen and thawed several times.

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Remember, chilled and frozen foods need to take at the end of purchase, so they are not heated, as long as you go on a trading hall.

Fruits

As with vegetables, it is very important odor. For example, ripe and juicy pineapple will always emit a sweet fragrance. If you catch a touch of something fermented, it is better not to take the fruit he overripe. Juicy pineapple felt heavy in weight. He may be a little "Burst" when pressed, but should soon be restored.

On maturity of the fruit and tells him the Sultan - the so-called crown of the pineapple leaf. In mature specimens it is a little shaken. But there are other tricks. Which of these pineapples you want to buy?

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Apricots, peaches and plums should not deform when pressed. Their surface is assumed to be absolutely dry. When selecting grapefruits, settle for those that seem heavy: they are the most juicy.

If you buy packaged fruit, such as apples container, take the goods from the depths of the shelves - to put the most recent.

Inside the package, there should be no condensation. He appears at sharp temperature drops during transportation and storage. Once opened this product is very perishable.

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You probably know that the choice of watermelon taken with a businesslike view of knocking on it. This is really useful ritual ripe melons at prostukivanii emit a hollow sound. Choose the heaviest fruit with dried fruit stem - they are more juicy. See that on the skin of the watermelon was free of defects and deformations.

Color also plays a role. Do you think any of these will be more ripe watermelons?

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Meat and fish

First look at the color of the meat: beef must be uniformly red, pork - a pale pink, and chicken - pink and white. Poultry can be yellow.

At the meat should not be a shade of gray, dried up edges or strange flight. Good farm meat can smell the grass and hay. Or do not smell anything. But it should not be sharp odor, especially the ammonia with impurities.

This also applies to the stuffing: he is supposed to smell like meat, not spices or onions. If the product is packaged and smell not hear, look at the color. Minced bright red color of the meat is made of, but not a mixture of skin and cartilage.

When choosing fish, pay attention to the gills. In fresh fish are red. If it is long, darkened gills. After freezing become gray - notice right away if you try to sell unfrozen fish fresh for the price.

Another criterion of freshness - the pupils. See this Rybin in the eye and say, in which one has a chance to be on your plate?

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Color salted salmon should be uniform, and the bones and veins - thin and light.

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Dairy products and eggs

Always (always do), check the date on the packaging of all dairy products. Do you want to have the most fresh and natural - see more production date: fewer days to keep the product, the less preservatives in it.

Do not hesitate to open the container with the eggs before you buy - you have to be sure not to buy broken.

In fresh eggs shell matte. If you can, take the category of "High" or C0. It shows that large eggs and chickens that they tore down, kept in good conditions.

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Curd should not leak or be damaged on the package. Read the labels of cheeses and butter. When the manufacturers are replacing ingredients to cheaper, cheese becomes "cheese product" as oil - in the "oil spread". Stay away from those.

He rules a lot. There are some more simple way to always choose the best products?

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