To prepare a delicious dish for lunch or dinner, you need to choose the right pasta from the wide selection in the store.
Today we invite you to talk about how to choose truly high-quality and, of course, excellent-tasting pasta products made from wheat flour.
When choosing pasta at the store, make sure it is fresh. Even though such food products have a long shelf life, it is still better to check it.
Then inspect the packaging for damage and assess the appearance of the product. For the convenience of the consumer, many manufacturers offer transparent bags or packaging with a transparent window so that buyers can properly examine the products.
There should be no crumbs in the packaging, the pasta should have an even shape without chips or cracks.
Good pasta, which is suitable for proper nutrition, is made from durum wheat. This information is usually contained on the packaging.
But we won’t deny it – there are cases when the ingredients list durum flour, but the pasta still falls apart when cooked.
To avoid such situations, you should pay attention to the amount of protein. As experience shows, those pasta that contain 12 or more units of protein retain their shape, do not stick together and are tasty. Pasta that contains less than 10 units of protein will most likely be unappetizing and sticky.
Previously, we wrote about which products lose their beneficial properties when cooked.
