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How to choose sweet and fresh loquat in summer

Now it's the season to eat loquats. How to choose fresh and sweet loquats? There are two kinds of loquats. Today, I'd like to tell you how to choose loquats.

1. Many people don't know how to pick loquat. In fact, it's very simple. Generally, there is a layer of fuzz and shallow fruit powder on the surface of loquat. Fluffy intact, fruit powder well preserved, it is not damaged in the process of transportation, relatively fresh, which contains vitamin C and other nutrients are relatively high.

2. In addition, medium-sized loquat fruits taste better. If it is too big, it may use the expanding agent. If it is too small, the fruit on the same tree will bear more fruits, and the nutrition will be poor.

3. The darker the color of loquat, the better its maturity, the sweeter the taste, and the rich flavor; while the color of light yellow, green, hard flesh, peel is not easy to peel off, are immature or abnormal mature loquats.

There are two kinds of loquat, one is red loquat, the other is white loquat.

The characteristics of white flesh loquat are as follows

Flesh white to pale yellow, without orange. Almost all the fruits of the white flesh batch are thin and easy to peel, the flesh is delicate, soft and easy to melt, juicy, sweet and refreshing, good quality, suitable for fresh eating; the peel is thin, not resistant to storage and transportation, not suitable for processing, easy to eat raw. For example: white pear (a kind of white flesh loquat), mature in late April.

The characteristics of red flesh loquat are as follows

Red flesh loquat fruit is small to medium-sized, with yellow, orange yellow or orange red flesh. The flesh is coarse and tastes strong. The pericarp is thick and resistant to storage and transportation. For example: Jiefangzhong (a kind of red flesh loquat), the maturity period is in the first and middle of May; in Zaozhong (a kind of red flesh loquat), the maturity period is in the first and middle of April.