Right now, it's the season when grapes are on the market, and in Jinshan, a new grape called "Mascardine" begins to enter the ripening season.
Unlike ordinary grapes, "Mascardine" is a "new upstart" of grapes, not only has a special taste, but also has to sell them one by one to see!
Grape "upstart"
Walking into a planting professional cooperative in Fengjing Town, Jinshan District, workers are seriously looking for ripe "mascardine" grapes, carefully cut them with scissors, and put them in baskets so as not to scratch the peel.
Lu Lianhong, a worker of Shanghai Canhui Fruit and Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative:
We should be careful about this grape picking, because it is ripe one by one, and a big hand will damage other grapes.
The ripe "mascardine" grapes have a "bronze" crust with a strong musk-like aroma and are slightly smaller than the mainstream grape varieties on the market. Take a bite,
The juice is rich, the skin is crispy, the skin is thicker, and the sugar content is relatively high.
The thick taste and unique aroma make the "mascardin" grapes mostly used in the brewing of high-end wines abroad. But the aroma is not the main reason why the "mascardine" grape can sell high prices, the peel, pulp and seeds contain a lot of resveratrol, and the pulp also contains antioxidants such as ellanic acid that other grapes do not have, which is one of the main reasons why it has been favored in recent years after the market re-evaluation.
Lu Hui, head of Shanghai Canhui Fruit and Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative:
It contains two antioxidant substances, resveratrol and ellagic acid, and the extracts of these two substances themselves are sold at a high price.
It is understood that mascardine grapes have been planted in the United States for hundreds of years, and the source of mascardine grapes in the mainland market is mainly imported from abroad. In recent years, the Grape and Wine Research Center of Shanghai Jiaotong University has introduced this variety to China, and began to try planting in some vineyards in Shanghai, 3 years ago, the base was introduced from Shanghai Jiaotong University for planting, due to the difficulty of cultivation, it has about 16 plants.
It is precisely because the introduction time is short, it is still in the trial planting stage, the cultivation area is small, the difficulty is high, so the total amount of grape production is small, which is a scarce fruit.
It is understood that this year is the first time to hang fruit, the number of daily picking is not high, and the picking period can last until October.
Lu Hui, head of Shanghai Canhui Fruit and Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative:
A total of 16 such "mascardin" grapes have been cultivated this year, and the yield is about a thousand fruits per tree, but the yield of high-quality fruits is not very high, and the grapes are now sold by one, one by one embedded in the foam box, and the price is 5 to 7 yuan per piece.
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Reporter | Xiong Xuehan Gu Qingfan
Photography | Zhuang Yi
Edit | Chen Weiting
Editor-in-charge | Liu Jiayuan