Experience in choosing delicious fruits for Tet

(Baonghean.vn) -Tet is the time for you and your family to buy fruits to display on the ancestral altar. But not everyone knows how to choose fresh, delicious fruits that can be preserved for a long time during Tet.

Choose fresh fruit

If you are not careful or have no experience in choosing fruits, buyers can easily buy fruits that are not fresh and delicious, even Chinese fruits with many stimulants and preservatives. To have fresh and delicious fruits, you can refer to the following folk experience on choosing fruits for Tet:

Delicious fruit for the fruit tray on Tet holiday. Photo from internet

For oranges, tangerines, lemons:Pay attention to the outer skin of the fruit. Good fruit will have shiny skin and feel heavy in the hand. The skin, around the stem, is thick and high while the center of the knob is more concave than the surrounding area. Naturally ripe oranges are slightly yellow at the bottom, but if they are evenly ripe in all parts, the orange is ripened by vinegar. Lift the fruit in your hand and if it feels light, it means the fruit has little water, is spongy, and dry. Do not choose bright yellow oranges or tangerines with fallen stems, which are signs of forced ripening, pests, bee stings, etc.

Choose a yellow-yellow fruit, at least 1/3 full, with shiny skin, faint spots, and thin skin. Do not choose a large orange, with rough skin, or one side that is bright yellow - the fruit is sunburned, so the skin is thick, dry, and not sweet. Choose a lemon that is firm, light green, has a thin skin, and is speckled.

Banana:Bananas are an indispensable fruit in the Tet fruit tray. When choosing bananas, choose round, ripe, mottled, bright yellow or yellowish green, not crushed, not black. Bananas that are too big will not be fragrant.

Watermelon:In addition to the fruits to display on the altar such as grapefruit, banana, kumquat, orange, many families also choose watermelon to display more beautifully. When buying watermelon, pay attention to choose a round fruit, with a hard and dark skin. In addition, to know if the watermelon is red or not, look at the stem of the watermelon. If the stem is fresh and spiraled, it will be very delicious and red. In addition, you can also use your hand to gently tap on the watermelon, if you hear a dull sound, the watermelon is ripe and not spongy.

How to identify Chinese fruit

In addition, consumers need to pay attention to distinguish between Chinese fruits that use many stimulants and fruits from other places through the following characteristics:

Apple:Normally, apples imported from Europe, America, or New Zealand are dark red, with many dark stripes running along the grain from the stem to the bottom. As for Chinese apples, because they are grown in Asian climates with completely different geology and soil, their color is usually pink or light pink.

And when cut open, a New Zealand apple has a strong aroma, while a Chinese apple has almost no aroma. The flesh of a New Zealand apple is yellow, while the flesh of a Chinese apple is white-yellow. Apples imported from Europe, America, and Australia have a completely different sweetness and aroma. Chinese apples are usually more spongy, and their sweetness has a slightly salty taste.

Orange:Chinese oranges often have a very shiny and sticky surface, with a dark, patchy, uneven yellow color, possibly due to the use of color-enhancing chemicals. Meanwhile, an Australian orange has an even yellow color from top to bottom.

When cut open, Australian oranges have a delicious, fragrant taste, but Australian oranges are often dry at the tip, have less juice, and the inside of the orange is a dark yellow color similar to the skin color. When cut open, Chinese oranges have a light yellow inside, much lighter yellow than Australian oranges.

The juice squeezed from an Australian orange is much less than that from a Chinese orange, usually only half the amount of the Chinese orange. The juice squeezed from an Australian orange is also darker yellow, has a moderate aroma, and a sweet taste, while the juice squeezed from a Chinese orange is pale yellow and has a pungent smell.

Cherry:Chinese cherries are soft and bland, not crispy and sweet like Australian cherries. It's a little harder to tell the difference, but Australian cherries are a bit darker red, crispy and sweet, while Chinese cherries seem softer, blander, and more salty...

Pomegranate:Vietnamese pomegranates are small, have many seeds, are thick, and have green skin. Chinese pomegranates are large, round, have thin skin, and are pinkish-white.

Grape:Chinese grapes are sold everywhere in markets and on outdoor stalls. Chinese grapes are big and round, have light skin, are sour, soft, crumbly and have many seeds. American grapes have darker skin, are elongated, sweet, crunchy, and have few or no seeds. Phan Rang (Ninh Thuan) grapes are small, have short bunches and are bright green.

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