Most fruits are sweet, and sweet fruits have always been the mainstream of fruits. But the non-mainstream fruit "sour fruit" is not useless. In recent years, with the diversification of consumption and the development of niche fruits, sour fruits have also "secretly" come out of the circle in thousands of calls, adding a lot of chaos to the originally calm fruit rivers and lakes.
For the arrival of sour fruits, some people love, some people hate, some people say that sour fruits are delicious and delicious, and its taste makes people fall; Some people say that sour fruits are not IQ taxes? Mixed reviews and criticisms are difficult to comment on.
Of course, sour fruits are not "pure acid" fruits, eating and drinking vinegar like sour fruits are basically non-existent, the hawthorn we eat daily is not pure acid, and many hawthorns that can be eaten fresh are also sour and sweet. (Unripe fruits do not count). The sour fruit we are talking about here is also a sweet and sour fruit that is mainly sour.
In today's era, there are four major sour fruits in the fruit river and lake, "east, west, south and north", which of the four of them can make you fall in the delicacy of fruit?
Donghuang, which has a large output, high commercialization and many varieties
What is "Dong Huang"? Refers to the yellow peel fruit of Guangdong. Yellow peel fruit is a well-known fruit in Guangdong, and some other regions also have a small amount of cultivation, but Guangdong is the main production area of yellow peel fruit. For the old Cantonese, eating yellow peel in summer is an equally important eating habit as eating lychee.
It's just that the yellow skin is not as famous as lychee.
Yellow bark is a fruit tree of the family Rubiaceae, native to the south of the mainland, artificial cultivation in the mainland has a history of thousands of years, is a relatively traditional garden fruit tree in Guangdong. It's about the size of a dragon's eye, but it can be eaten directly with its skin.
Yellow peel fruit is the largest sour fruit in Guangdong. Of course, its taste is not pure sour, the taste of the fully ripe yellow peel fruit is sour and sweet, and the sweetness between different varieties is also different. But for outsiders, if you eat a less mature yellow peel fruit, it may make you feel "sour and astringent", making you shout "yellow peel fruit is IQ tax!" He thought that "the yellow peel fruit is a wild fruit in a ravine and cannot be put on the table." ”
Guangdong's yellow peel fruit is not only not a wild fruit, but its degree of commercialization is very high. In various urban areas of Guangdong, where lychees and longan can be planted, yellow peel fruit can be planted. In the past, it was planted at home, and now it is planted in orchards on the mountain, and there are many merchants who buy it in large carts and small carts, some of which are used to process juice, and some of which are sold directly to supermarkets in the city.
Like Yunan in Guangdong, it is the "hometown of China's seedless yellow peel", and the yellow peel here is planted with a seedless yellow peel. Ordinary yellow skins are nucleated like longans, while Yunan's seedless yellow skins have evolved the nucleus of yellow skins. This is not a high-tech use, but a grafted graft of two mutated seedless yellow bark mother trees left over from a hundred years ago. Just Yunan's seedless yellow peel, this year's output has reached 89,000 tons, the output is not small.
The characteristics of seedless yellow peel are that it is very refreshing to eat, one bite at a time, without spitting out nuclei. If you've ever eaten a seedless lychee, you should be able to feel this feeling. In addition to the seedless yellow peel, the more popular yellow peel is "chicken heart yellow peel" and "rock sugar yellow peel", these two varieties of yellow peel fruit are also quite popular among Cantonese people.
Yellow peel fruit must be picked when ripe, immature is very sour, ripe and very unplaced, put a day may be broken. In the past, due to storage, transportation and sour flavor, the yellow peel fruit could only "dominate the world" in the fruit market in Guangdong and Guangxi, but in the past two years, it may be that logistics technology and preservation technology have developed, and the yellow peel fruit can finally go out of the province.
In Beijing, Shenyang and other very northern cities, there are also a small number of yellow peel fruits for sale, but the price is very high, a pound of seventeen or eight pieces. The retail price of yellow peel fruit from Guangdong origin is also 6-8 yuan / catty. Although there is an opportunity to eat yellow peel fruit in other places, such a high price also prevents the yellow peel fruit from further becoming the "leading big brother" of sour fruit.
Guangxi, which is next to Guangdong, also has a sour fruit that is sharpening its knife, hoping to make achievements in the field of sour fruits.
"Life is more sour and bitter, only then can there be afterglow" Xi Gan
Sour fruits in Guangxi can be said to be like fish in the water, because Guangxi people love to eat acid more. There is a saying in Guangxi called "Heroes are sad to be beautiful, and beauties are sad to be sour stalls!" "Sour stalls refer to stalls that sell all kinds of sour snacks. And what we want to say about "Xigan" is one of the protagonists in guangxi sour stalls.
It is the emblica fruit of Guangxi.
Some people say that Guangdong's yellow peel fruit has the taste of life, "sour, sweet, bitter and spicy, all four tastes", but the author feels that Guangxi's emblica fruit is the real life.
The first time you eat the emblica fruit, it is sour and bitter, and after eating the first bite, you will continue to chew it slowly, and you will feel its sweetness. This is more like the taste of life, when it first came to the world, the newborn calf, after suffering, suffering from wind and frost, tasting all the bitterness, do you know what is the real sweetness? Eating emblica fruit can not swallow dates, but should be tasted like tea.
Emblica, like yellow peel fruit, is also a tropical fruit. In addition to Guangxi, it is also cultivated in other places such as Guangdong and Hainan. However, Guangxi emblica is the main production area, especially the emblica in Pingnan, Guangxi, which has developed into a local characteristic fruit variety, while in some other places, the emblica may still be just a wild fruit, not commercially cultivated.
From the sales point of view, the yield and sales scope of emblica fruit are not as large as yellow peel fruit, and the commercialization degree of emblica fruit is not as high as that of yellow peel fruit, which should be slightly inferior to yellow peel fruit.
But for people who love acid very much, Guangxi emblica is the "orthodoxy" of sour fruits. Because its taste is indeed more sour, especially the wild emblica varieties, sour enough to wash, when you eat it, you can add salt to eat it cold. The feeling of "sour, salty, bittersweet" will always make consumers who love this mouthful fall.
The artificially selected emblica fruit variety optimizes its sour taste and reduces its sour and bitter taste, which is not known to be right or wrong. Only after trying, we know whether this variety optimization road can bring "emblica".
Guangxi emblica fruit, want to be the leading big brother of sour fruits, but also have to find their own positioning quickly.
Sour teeth, strange shape of the south corner
When the yellow peel fruit is worried about keeping fresh and storing, there is a sour fruit in Yunnan that basically does not have to worry about these. Although this fruit is said to be a fruit, how does its appearance not look like a fruit? It's more like a bean carob, a peanut.
It is the "south corner", the "sour corner" of Yunnan, also known as "capers", its tree is also called "tamarind", classified from the fruit, it should be a pod. Native to Africa, it must have been introduced to the mainland for thousands of years. The sour horn tree is a native tree species that grows very slowly and is mostly planted in villages, similar to the soap pod tree. Sour horn trees take about 10 years to bear fruit, and the harvest period is more than 30 years.
Therefore, many sour horn trees with sour horns are left by previous people.
Acid horn can not only be planted in Yunnan, but also in tropical areas such as Hainan, Guangdong and Fujian, but at present, most of the acid horns in Yunnan are also more authentic acid horns. For example, in the village of Reading in Yuanmou, Yunnan, there are more than 600 acid horn trees left by the ancients, with an annual output of more than 10 tons of acid horn, and many acid horn trees have an age of more than 100 years, and there is a king of acid horn trees, according to locals, the age of the tree has reached 1600 years. Acid horn has become a commercial fruit in Yunnan that drives villagers to get rich.
Acid horn is a single species of fruit, and there is only one species in the genus, acid horn. But in terms of varieties, acid horns have evolved. The sour horn in Yunnan is divided into sour horn, medium sweet sour horn and sweet sour horn. The sour taste will be reduced in turn. Pure sour horn can be said to be sour to lose teeth, while sweet sour horn is better.
However, some people say that sweet and sour horn is the "rebellion" in sour horn, sour horn sour horn, only eat the most sour to enjoy. This is where the wise see the wise.
Sour horn is currently not common in fruit supermarkets in other places, but its transportation and storage are much easier than yellow peel fruit, and it is still very easy to buy sour horn on the Internet, and the price is not low. The picture above is the sour horn that the author bought yesterday, which is big enough, but some friends eat it and say that there is too little pulp inside, which may be a weakness of the sour horn.
The old sour fruit big brother - North Hawthorn
Yellow peel fruit, emblica fruit, sour horn are all sour fruits in the south, but also are not familiar with the sour fruit of the north, the north is more familiar, and in the north and south are known to women and children what is a sour fruit? It is the "hawthorn". And we here refer to the "hawthorn of Hebei".
Hawthorn is an ancient fruit native to the mainland, Hebei is the main production area of hawthorn, and Xinglong County in Hebei is the "hometown of Hawthorn in China". The hawthorns here are famous for their hawthorn circles.
Compared with the other 3 types of sour fruits that are still in the development period, hawthorn has already passed the golden period. In the past, when I was a child, when I was a child, when I had little fruit, I would buy a lot of hawthorn to eat, one bite at a time, while drooling with acid, gnawing my teeth, and continuing to eat. Sometimes it is also customary to pat the sour hawthorn flat with your hand and eat it, so that it is not so sour.
Hawthorn is really too sour, although there are sweet and sour fresh hawthorns, but it is still too sour. And compared to the yellow peel fruit and emblica fruit, sour hawthorn is a bit "choked" to eat, in today's colorful fruit rivers and lakes, fresh sour hawthorn has declined.
Hawthorn is more used to process various types of food and the traditional snack "sugar gourd". But even sugar gourds are no longer just processed with hawthorn, and sugar gourds for all kinds of fruits are everywhere.
Hebei hawthorn was once the big brother of sour fruits, but time has passed, and perhaps only very, very acid-loving people dare to "eat three hundred hawthorns a day".
Which is your favorite?
Guangdong's yellow peel fruit, Guangxi's emblica fruit, Yunnan's sour horn, Hebei's hawthorn, are all the best of the local characteristic fruits, in the competitive fruit market, which of them can make you fall sour?
Or which one makes you "smell sour and discolored, lest you avoid it?" "What?