How to choose fruits, tips for choosing fruits

Below I will introduce to you some new fruits in May. I hope it will be helpful to you.

As the weather gets hotter, some seasonal fruits are also beginning to be available. In the fruit market, loquats, lychees, nectarines, watermelons and other fruits are dazzling, making consumers dazzled. For fruit lovers, how to choose fresh and ripe fruits has become a big problem. Ms. Li Meiqing from Taizhou Pacific Fruit Supermarket provides some suggestions for everyone on how to choose seasonal fruits.

Baisha loquat

Loquat trees are full of treasures. The fruit is sweet and thirst-quenching, and is rich in protein, fat, and sugar. The flowers, leaves, and kernels can be used as medicine to make traditional Chinese patent medicines such as "loquat paste", "loquat dew", and "loquat syrup". It has the functions of clearing the lungs, relieving coughs, moistening the throat, quenching thirst, promoting body fluids, strengthening the stomach, increasing appetite, and helping digestion. Loquat flesh can be processed into jams, fruit wines, canned foods, and other foods and beverages.

Tips

When choosing Baisha loquats, it is best to choose loquats with pink skin. The long loquats have smaller cores, while the round ones have larger cores.

litchi

In addition to being edible, the kernel of litchi is used as a medicine as an astringent analgesic to treat heart and small intestinal pain. It has many flowers and is rich in nectar glands, making it an important nectar source plant. It quenches thirst, improves complexion, and refreshes the mind.

Tips

The pointed lychee has a small core. When ripe, the lychee itself is green, and some lychees appear red because of exposure to sunlight.

cucumber

Cucumber has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxifying and reducing swelling, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst. It is mainly used to treat fever and thirst, sore throat, wind-heat eye disease, damp-heat jaundice, and difficulty urinating.

Suitable for people: people who are easily tired, people who work in polluted environments, people who are addicted to smoking, people who engage in strenuous exercise and high-intensity labor, and people who take medicine for a long time. It is helpful for the treatment of symptoms such as congestion, purpura, bleeding, pigment spots, cataracts, and scurvy.

Tips

The greener the skin, the fresher it is, so try to choose cucumbers with green skin.

General rules for selecting fruits: smell first, look second, pinch third

First, smell. Ripe fruits will give off a unique fragrance. You can use your nose to smell the bottom of the fruit. The stronger the fragrance, the sweeter the fruit, such as cantaloupe and pineapple. Second, look. Choose fruits of medium size and uniform color. If there are two colors that are too different on the fruit (such as dark red and dark green), such fruits will taste either sour or astringent, or they may be too sweet. If there are black spots or brown spots on the fruit, it is best to give up. In addition, to see whether the fruit is fresh or not, you can observe the glossiness of the fruit and the stems on the fruit. Third, pinch and feel the hardness. Semi-ripe fruits are hard and crisp, and then they will become soft. Papaya and banana should be eaten when the flesh becomes soft, but apples are suitable for eating when they are semi-ripe. Large fruits can be selected according to the above method, and the easiest way to choose small fruits such as cherries is to taste one.

watermelon

When choosing, choose the ones with patterns that look like they are about to expand, with a small tail, a sunken "belly button", and a slightly bumpy surface. Choose the ones with a greener or darker color, not a foggy white one. The most common way is to hold the watermelon in one hand and tap it gently. If it sounds a bit hollow and the hand is slightly vibrating, it means that the watermelon is sandy and not tight inside. If it is not ripe, it will sound dead.

Cantaloupe

Smell the "butt" of the melon. If it smells good, it is a good and sweet melon. It is best to choose a white one that looks plump, thin-skinned, and golden yellow, which means it is mature. Also, choose one with a navel. The bigger the navel, the better. The navel should be soft when you press it.

Mangosteen

Choose a mangosteen with a firm, intact shell and a dark purple, fresh skin. If the shell is soft when you pinch it, the flesh inside may have gone bad, so don't buy it. The number of petals on the navel flower at the stem of the mangosteen indicates the number of petals of flesh inside.

nectarine

Try to choose nectarines that are bright red and have a smooth surface. At the same time, the surface of the nectarine is also relatively regular, round or oval. If you find that it is severely deformed, you should buy it according to the actual situation. Good nectarines feel very solid when you hold them in your hand, because nectarines are relatively firm when they are not very ripe. However, firm nectarines can only be said to have grown well, and the taste is a bit crisp. If you want to choose a riper nectarine, you should choose one that feels softer, because softer peaches mean that they are truly ripe, not still in the growth stage.