How to choose a delicious yellow snapper

1. Observe with the naked eye

Normally, dried yellowfin fish is made from fresh fish, when the product will have certain characteristics in appearance and color as follows:

• The outer surface of the dried yellow thread fish is delicious, quality standard usually has a gray back and the two sides of the back of the fish will have 2 bright yellow threads running parallel from the fish's head to the tail. Observing the belly is also a good way to choose dried yellowfish. From the outside, the fish's belly is usually silvery white, the color feels bright, not dark.
• The inner flesh of the standard dried yellowtail fish is usually an eye-catching red-brown color and the abdomen on both sides is bright yellow, not too dark.
• The shape is also a point to keep in mind when choosing a delicious dried yellowtail. Goldfish usually have a diamond shape, at the same time, the standard size of goldfish for exploitation and processing ranges from 10 -15 cm, avoid choosing types that are too large or too small, easy to confuse with silverfish. or flounder.

2. Tasting

Tasting is the simplest and easiest way to feel the freshness of fish. Yellow snapper has a light taste, firm, delicious, and naturally sweet flesh is fresh fish. As for the fish that are seasoned too much, you will not feel its natural delicious taste, moreover, it may be the fish that has been processed for a long time, no longer delicious.

3. Touch the dried fish meat with your hand

Standard, high-quality dried yellowtail fish usually has the right amount of fish meat, neither too thin nor too thick. When touching or lightly tearing with your hands, the delicious dried yellow fish will feel tough and slightly flexible. With poor quality dried fish made from rotten fish or do not meet the requirements during the drying process, the fish meat will become mushy and not tasty.

4. Smell

Another way to choose a delicious and high-quality dried yellowtail is based on the scent of the dried fish. Dried yellow snapper wants to be delicious depends on how to choose yellow snapper of the processor. Properly dried yellowtail, selected from fresh fish, will give a light, slightly aromatic scent and have a typical smell of sea fish but not too spicy or have an unpleasant fishy smell.

Dried fish with a strong spicy or fishy smell are often products that have been left for too long, have not been preserved well or are made from rotten, substandard fish. Please note how to choose delicious dried yellowfin fish!