A slight is part of a bitter touch to the typical asparagus flavour. But sometimes, it happens that individual Asparagus spears in even more bitter than usual.
Don’t panic: a Bitter asparagus is not toxic, soothes the Verbraucherzentrale Bayern.
Bitter Asparagus: A Variety Of Causes
Most of the time the rod was stabbed and then just too close to the rhizome, in which the plug of the bitter substances. The rhizomes grow every year a few more inches to the top.
They farmed asparagus fields over several years, dams will increase the Asparagus each year. Otherwise it could happen that the asparagus is to cut off close to the root and increasingly bitter contains substances.
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Another cause could also be the unpredictable weather like a sudden cold snap with rapidly the following heat. The bitter substances are stuck mainly in the shell and in the base.
Then it helps to peel the Asparagus thoroughly and the bottom end generously cut. A teaspoon of sugar in the cooking water can neutralize the bitter taste is also partial.
In order to obtain also the color of white asparagus, it helps to give a splash of lemon juice into the cooking water.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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