In the past, when the city had not been expanded on a large scale, there were many people in the countryside, and every family would keep their fields in order, eat what was picked from their own vegetable garden, and wash it a little and put it into the pot.
The cucumber knots are crisper and sweeter than the other, the winter melon grows bigger than the other, and the tomatoes smell more fragrant than one, take a bite, and the inside is full of sand and soft and sticky, and the juice is more like no money.
But such a delicious tomato does not know when it will slowly fade out of the public eye, although there are also tomatoes in the market, that is, the color is not as bright as before, pinching is also hard, biting into the inside is not full of flesh, like a hollow fruit.
It is this kind of hard tomato that after buying it home, if you forget to eat it for a few weeks, it is not bad, and the fresh one is like it was just bought. If the pigs that survived the Wenchuan earthquake are called "pig strong", according to this tomato, it can be called "persimmon strong".
Why aren't tomatoes bad for a few weeks now?
Many people speculate that the current vegetables will turn yellow if they do not eat the leaves quickly after buying them home, or they will slowly rot, or they will simply dry up. Now the tomatoes are not only hard, but also not easy to break, is it a potion, or what preservatives have been soaked before selling? This is the answer for you!
There are two reasons why tomatoes are so hard and not easy to break now!
Reason one: Pick early
After a tomato grows from seedling to mature fruit, it generally takes about 30-50 days under normal conditions, and it only takes 20 days if it reaches green.
If you wait until the fruit is ripe before picking, the tomatoes that are about to ripe will attract a large group of insects in advance, which will then reduce the yield of tomatoes and affect the income of merchants. In addition, ripe tomatoes need to be transported to various points of sale, and it is easy to break during transportation, and the transportation time is too long, which will also lead to a large amount of damage to tomatoes.
Therefore, before the tomatoes have naturally matured, farmers will spray the tomatoes with a ripening agent that has been approved by the state to make the tomatoes that are still green turn red faster, but the tomatoes are not actually ripe. So touching the hard state, eating is also a little astringent, there is no tomato sweetness, and it can be left for a long time.
Reason two: different varieties
If you have grown tomatoes in the past, you should know that soft tomatoes will crack on their own after they are ripe, and if they are picked, they are easy to bump. In order to reduce the losses of farmers, the varieties of tomatoes on the mainland were changed. Many people are worried that this kind of hard tomato is not a genetically modified variety, in fact, there is no need to worry too much, there is no genetically modified tomato in China.
The above is why tomatoes are now hard bang bang bang, this kind of tomatoes after buying home if you feel too hard, teach you a few ways to ripe.
Method 1: Put a little green tomato, or a hard tomato into an airless paper bag, and also put an apple or banana in it, these fruits will emit a ripening substance - ethylene all the time. The effect of ripening is leveraged, but don't let it go too long to prevent the tomatoes from "rotting".
Method 2: Put the tomatoes in a box with a layer of newspaper, put it away, and then cover the tomatoes with a layer of newspaper, so that you can also make the tomatoes soft, check once a day to see if the tomatoes are soft or not.
Of course, in order to reduce unnecessary trouble, when buying tomatoes, you must have a golden eye and be able to pick out the best among thousands of tomatoes.
Learn this method and pick out the delicious tomatoes
shape
When buying crabs, many people will choose female crabs because there is a lot of yellow in the belly of the female crab. In fact, tomatoes are also gender-specific, buying tomatoes is recommended to buy the top is full, the shape is like a semi-circle ball. If the top of the tomato is pointed and raised, then the tomato is male, this tomato is not only hard, but also has less juice inside, looks full, but is actually more hollow.
appearance
Tomatoes to avoid touching the half-cooked, of course, from the red inside, the more red the better. But if the family is not in a hurry to eat, it is recommended that you can buy it that is not very red, that is, pink, and you can put it for about a week after you go home. For example, cyan, yellow, and bluish yellow should be avoided, and this tomato generally does not taste good.
If you are like buying sand, the skin of the tomato of the sand is full of small white dots, as if it has been pierced by a needle.
smell
Ripe tomatoes smell strong, so don't buy them if they don't smell anything.
The above is a few ways to select high-quality tomatoes, in fact, it is not to say that other tomatoes are unhealthy, but after buying home, not only the taste is not good, but also wait for a long time to eat, so the selection is also ripe for a longer time, other tomatoes are the same for a longer time.
In summary, no matter what kind of tomatoes, as long as the tomatoes purchased in the regular supermarket are healthy, but you need to pick one, choose a good choice, rest assured and bold to eat.
Bibliography:
1. Isn't it bad to put it for two months? Reporter unveiled tomatoes so "longevity" 2018-11-29 09:52 · wireless Linyi
2. Why are the tomatoes now hard and not bad for a month? Today can be counted as knowing 2018-05-22 13:00 · Shaanxi science