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How to choose and keep litchi fresh in summer

It's time for a massive listing. In addition to introducing some fresh eating methods to you, dietetic experts should also bring some health knowledge to everyone.

Step 1: take a look at it

From the appearance, the color of fresh litchi is generally not very bright. The litchi with extremely bright color and no mottled color is likely to be artificially treated by bad traders.

Step 2: throw stones and ask the way

When choosing, you can hold it gently in your hand. The handle of a good litchi should be tight and elastic. If the hand feels soft or there is a cavity under the lychee, it is not necessary to consider the purse or the body. It is better not to take risks.

Step 3: win by appearance

As the saying goes, through the phenomenon to see the essence, if you want to choose the litchi with thick flesh and small kernel, you should choose those with the top and tip on the top, and those with the top and round are generally larger.

Tips for litchi preservation

The preserved litchi has the characteristics of 'color change in one day, aroma change in two days, taste change in three days, and color and fragrance disappear in four days'. In order to preserve the color and flavor of litchi, we can spray some water on the litchi, put it in the plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator. The litchi can be preserved at low temperature and high humidity (2-4 degrees centigrade, 90% to 95% humidity). Squeezing out the air in the bag as far as possible can reduce the oxygen ratio to slow down the oxidation rate and improve the preservation effect.

There is a way to be delicious

If you want to peel out the intact litchi, you can pinch it with your hand on the suture on its skin, and it will naturally split into two halves.

The sugar content of litchi is as high as 20%, but eating a lot of litchi and rarely eating, it is very easy to cause sudden hypoglycemia, which needs the attention of mechanical driving and other industries.

In every 100 ml of litchi juice, the content of vitamin C is as high as 70 mg, but the litchi is very fiery. There is a saying that "one litchi has three fires". The popular solution is to drink appropriate amount of salt water or honey water.

Litchi is rich in vitamins. If you eat it properly, it can promote the blood circulation of microvascular, improve the antioxidant capacity of skin, prevent freckles, and make the skin smoother.

When litchi is used as a dish, it is usually matched with white meat such as aquatic products or poultry. One reason is that the color is considered, and the other is that the taste of these white meat is easy to set off with litchi. One of the most suitable is seafood, because the cold nature of seafood can neutralize the heat of litchi.