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 or delicious, even Chinese fruits with many stimulants and preservatives. To have fresh and delicious fruits, you can refer to the following folk experience about choosing fruits for Tet:

Delicious fruit for the Tet fruit tray. Photo from the 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 stem 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. When you hold the fruit in your hand and feel it is light, it means the fruit has little water, is spongy, and is dry. You should not choose bright yellow oranges or tangerines with fallen stems, which are signs of forced ripening, pests, bee stings, etc.

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

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

Watermelon:In addition to 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 spirally twisted, it will be very delicious and red. In addition, you can also use your hand to gently tap the watermelon, if it makes 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. Chinese apples, because they are grown in Asian climates with completely different geology and soil, are often pink or light pink.

And when you cut open a New Zealand apple, it has a strong aroma, while a Chinese apple has almost no aroma, the inside of a New Zealand apple is yellow, while the inside of a Chinese apple is white-yellow. Apples imported from Europe, America, and Australia have a completely different sweetness and aroma, while Chinese apples are usually spongier and have a slightly sweet 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 top, 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 that of a Chinese orange. The juice squeezed from an Australian orange is also darker yellow, has a moderate aroma, and is sweet, 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 between cherries, 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 widely sold in markets and on outdoor stalls. Chinese grapes are large and round, have light-colored skin, are sour, soft, crumbly, and have many seeds. American grapes have darker, elongated skin, are sweet, crunchy, and have few or no seeds. Phan Rang (Ninh Thuan) grapes are small, have short clusters, and are bright green.

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