Every spring, it's the season for fresh strawberries to go on the market. The sweet and sour strawberries must be the favorite of many people. The most famous variety is milk strawberries. So are Milk Strawberries really grown up by milk irrigation? Let's get to know.
In 1999, Liaoning Forest Management Research Institute found a variant plant from the production field of Japanese strawberry cultivar tochini. After trial planting and small area promotion observation, its character performance was stable, and then it was popularized in large area, which was welcomed by the majority of strawberry growers.
Because the mutant was found in 1999, it was named Senyan 99, which is called No. 99 for short. This is the predecessor of milk strawberry.
So here comes the question....
Question 1: are Milk Strawberries really grown with milk?
According to previous reports, farmers have used milk to grow strawberries, but the mechanism is different from that of people drinking fresh milk.
The specific operation is to ferment and dilute the milk, decompose it into various microelements, and dissolve it in water before it is absorbed by plants. However, the effect is similar to that of using other organic fertilizers, only a publicity gimmick is added when selling it.
But growing strawberries with milk not only takes time and effort, but also costs a lot.
In addition, people go to the fields to pick fresh strawberries, which accounts for an increasing proportion in the sales. During the fermentation process, the milk will give off an unpleasant smell of milk. Before the customers come to pick it, they have been smoked away.
As a result, milk is not used now.
Question 2: Milk Strawberries are not watered with milk, but they have a light milk flavor. Will they have milk nutrition?
In fact, the light milk flavor is determined by the aromatic substances of the varieties. The type and relative content of aroma matter in strawberry fruit are important factors to determine its flavor and quality.
So far, more than 360 kinds of volatile compounds have been isolated and identified from strawberry, mainly including alcohols, esters, aldehydes, ketones, terpenes, furans and sulfides. The total amount of all kinds of aromatic components only accounts for 0.001% - 0.01% of the fresh fruit quality, but it has an important influence on the quality of strawberry fruit.
It can be seen that milk strawberry, like other foods named milk flavor but no milk in ingredients list, has no nutrition of milk.