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Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

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Cherries are a more popular fruit in China, if you can achieve "cherry freedom" is also the dream of many people, on January 2, 2021, cherries Santina black car 2 pounds air freight price is 350-400 yuan, but even such a price wow Sai domestic is also very sought after, enough to show the Chinese people's love for cherries.

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

Known as "the cherry of the first branch of a hundred fruits", it is actually a transliteration of the European sweet cherry, but the name cherry has more commodity value, so we all call it "cherry".

Botanically speaking, European sweet cherries and domestic cherries belong to two plants of the same genus and different species, just like cousins.

The cherries we say generally refer to Chinese cherries or hairy cherries, and 90% of cherries in the domestic market come from the distant American Chile.

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

The question arises, why don't we travel thousands of miles to Chile to import cherries?

Here we say, Chile is a small country in South America 20,000 kilometers away from us, with an area of only 750,000 square kilometers, slightly larger than Qinghai Province, but Chile is blessed with a unique environment for cherries to grow.

In fact, Chilean cherry varieties are introduced from Canada or the United States, and the Santina we eat most often is the American cherry variety.

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

(1) Chilean cherries hit a time difference.

We all know that the winter in the southern hemisphere is the summer in the northern hemisphere, while the winter in the northern hemisphere is the summer in the southern hemisphere, and the ripening time of cherries is from November to January of the following year, which is our winter, and there are fewer fruits in season.

The appearance of cherries coincided with a vacancy in the supply of fruits, and coincidentally, this period is our traditional festival Spring Festival, cherries are accounted for, and Chinese people really love cherries.

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

(2) The geographical environment in which cherries grow is harsh.

Cherries like to grow on sunny slopes, the average temperature should be above 10 degrees, the altitude is 300-600 meters, the soil quality is loose, and deep sand is best.

Although Chile is only 180 kilometers wide from east to west, it is 4352 kilometers from north to south, and the north and south narrow lengths into a line, and the environment and geography, soil, and light are more suitable for fruit growth.

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

(3) Chilean climatic conditions are suitable for cherry growth.

The Andes are a natural barrier in Chile, and although the average temperature is above 10°C, it also snows in Chile in winter, and the snow can freeze to death of pests and diseases, thereby reducing the number of manual pesticide spraying and ensuring the quality of cherries.

Geographically speaking, Chile has a large temperature difference between day and night, which is conducive to the accumulation of powdered sugar in cherries, so Chilean cherries are large and sweet.

These unique geographical conditions make Chile's fruit industry very developed and become one of the few fruit exporters in the world.

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

Under normal circumstances, cherries take about 20 days from Chilean ports, to mainland ports, and then to consumers, so Chilean sea cherries take 20 days, how do cherries train into "undefeated golden bodies" to keep them fresh?

(1) Timely disposal after picking

The first step in the preservation of any kind of fruit is the treatment after picking, and the time of keeping a fruit fresh in addition to the reason of the fruit itself, whether it can be processed in time after picking is also the key.

The first step after cherry picking is to go to the "field heat". Field heat, as the name suggests, is the temperature of the fruit in the field, that is, the natural temperature of the fruit.

Cherries go to the field heat is to use water close to 0 ° as the medium, let the picked cherries enter 0 ° water to walk around, reduce the temperature, first reduce the breathing rate of cherries, so as to extend the preservation cycle of cherries.

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

(2) Enter the modified atmosphere warehouse.

The modified atmosphere library is to add gas mediation components on the basis of the cold storage, such as controlling the temperature of carbon dioxide, concentration, oxygen concentration, nitrogen temperature, concentration, to further regulate the breathing rate of cherries.

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

(3) Refrigerated storage.

At this point, basically the preservation of cherries is done, and the rest is loaded into refrigerated boxes and shipped to the country.

In fact, long-distance transportation preservation, mainly depends on the sky to eat, after all, logistics, weather, and other influencing factors are many, which link has a problem, can not do. For example, cherries that are shipped to China in the summer may quickly rot and spoil

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

(4) Freshness preservation is also related to variety.

90% of domestic cherries are one variety - Santina, why Santina, because Santina has compact and hard flesh and thick skin. Domestic imports choose Santina because it is resistant to storage itself, otherwise do you think cherries are such a variety!

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

How to pick cherries? Which cherries are the most cost-effective, teach you a little trick!

In fact, cherries were strictly graded in Chile before they were imported, which cherries cost, which ones are more expensive, which ones are cheaper, although they cannot be generalized, they can still be distinguished.

(1) Look at the color.

Cherries are divided into three types according to color, which are L, R, and D.

L stands for light red, R for red, and D for dark purple. Needless to say, it is also understood that these three colors are definitely progressive, and the darker the color, the higher the price.

(2) Look at the fruit path.

Simply put, look at the size of cherries to set the price, there are 6 specifications, L, Xl, J, J, JJJ, JJJJ, intuitively say that the more J, the higher the price.

And we often see that cherries are often compared with 1 dollar coins when they are sold, that is, to see the performance of the fruit diameter to set the price, and the coin size fruit diameter can also reach the standard of 2J.

Crossing the sea for 20,000 kilometers, lasting more than 20 days, a mouthful of more than 100, how Chilean cherries are preserved

Now in distant Chile, cherries have matured, they are being picked, packed, frozen, transported, and even some have arrived in our country, the cherry sales season is coming, can you achieve "cherry freedom" this year?

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