"If you don't buy a few Lotus Fruits, a specialty of Qingdao, don't say that you have been to Qingdao..." With the arrival of the tourist season, the vendors selling lotus fruits on the streets and alleys of Qingdao have begun to flood again.
This golden-yellow, lotus-shaped fruit, because of its cute shape, many tourists will buy a few to try under the introduction of the vendor's "delicious and sweet taste".
If you want to "taste first and buy later", the vendor will tell you: this fruit is old and expensive, which can be tasted casually, it must not be lost; the lotus fruit is more sugary, it is easy to attract flies after cutting; the lotus fruit is best to go home and put it for a week and then eat it, the taste is better; and so on...
Is this lotus fruit really that delicious?
Netizens broke the news:
Tell me about the encounter of friends coming to Qingdao to play, I have instructed everything, I did not expect that Lotus Fruit came out so early to deceive people. He took his whole family to Qingdao to play, and met a lot of lotus melons sold on the side of the road, 15 pounds, and asked how to eat? Answer, "Wash, wash, cut and eat directly." Bought a $35. It's expensive! Cut it open when you come back, tasteless to eat, tasteless to smell. I checked the Internet and learned that I had been deceived.
So, why are farmers still planting this unpalatable pumpkin?
Once, some people promoted it to farmers in the name of fruit, and the retail price of vendors was 15 yuan / catty. However, after the farmers planted it, they rotted in the field because it was unpalatable and could not be sold.
Many people just want to take a fresh, good-looking buy a taste, eat a bite to know that it is raw and difficult to swallow, can only be thrown away in vain, so how much sales can the lotus fruit that can only be used as an ornament?
Experts from Qingdao Agricultural University said that "lotus fruit" belongs to vegetables, commonly known as "flying saucer melon", also known as saucer melon, tooth edge melon, flat round zucchini, is a variant of the American pumpkin of the gourd family Pumpkin genus, because it can only be seen and can not be eaten, also known as "looking melon".
According to reports, the history of cultivation of disc melon in China is very short. It was first cultivated from abroad in the 1990s, and was planted in a demonstration park in Qingdao from the south a few years ago, and the scale is not large, there is no mass production and marketing, which cannot be said to be "Qingdao specialties". Because it looks better, the storage time is relatively long, and it can be used for family viewing, and the edible value is not large.
The flesh of the lotus fruit resembles a pumpkin, but is harder than a pumpkin, with pumpkin-like seeds in the middle. If eaten raw, there is no trace of sweetness, and there is a jerky taste, which is difficult to swallow. If it is steamed like a pumpkin, there is no pumpkin noodles and aroma, and every bite is a tasteless juice.
I hope that more vegetable farmers can be responsible for themselves, more vendors can be responsible for consumers, and everyone is good.
But as the saying goes, "no sale, no killing", so we have to remind everyone that lotus fruit is not a good thing, that is, it is not delicious and nutritious, it is a pumpkin that looks good, don't be fooled!
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