At the end of the year, you have to buy some fruits that you are usually reluctant to buy, such as cherries, kiwifruits, strawberries...
Delicious is delicious, but too expensive
Now is the season when cherries are on the market, and there are also various varieties and grades of cherries on the market. In the past, many readers always asked me to talk about how to choose fruits, and today we will talk about it.
After all, it is so expensive, you can't choose well, you can earn it when you learn!
1
Are cherries cherries or not?
Let's first talk about what is a cherry, many people may ask whether cherries are cherries or not?
You have to say that cherries are not cherries, cherries are transliterated from "cherries"; You have to say that it is, cherries and cherries belong to the same genus of plums in the family Rosaceae, but they are not of different species. Our native cherry is called the (Chinese) cherry, and the scientific name is Prunus pseudocerasus.
Our traditional cherry is called (Chinese) cherry
Image source: fr.aliexpress.com
The proper name of cherries is European sweet cherry, scientific name Prunus avium.
The proper name of cherries is European sweet cherry
Image source: wiki
Many people say that cherries and (Chinese) cherries are different varieties, which is not rigorous. If you see such a popular science article next time, just take it and don't look at it, just look at me. (Pinching .jpg)
I've also seen people say that cherries native to China don't have stalks, which is also not true. Cherries have stalks, while the same genus Prunus tomentosa has almost no stems, so hairy cherries are more boring.
Hairy cherry
Image source: derenjadalny.com
When I was a child, I used to eat this little yellow cherry
Now everyone eats cherries for dessert, topped with fluffy cream, and decorated with fresh cherries. But when we were kids, the cream of the cream cake was hard and the cherry on the cream was plastic-flavored, so much so that I always thought it was a fake cherry for decoration as a child.
Pickled cherries from childhood look plastic
Image source: bonappeteach.com
Why are good cherries made so bad? The thin skin and delicate flesh of cherries are not easy to transport and preserve, and merchants at that time may have followed the practice of foreign pickled cherries, Maraschino cherry.
Maraschino cherries were originally a high-end snack for royalty and the wealthy, and after spreading to the United States, they were also first served in high-end restaurants. They're added to cocktails and ice cream, so the pickled cherries on the cake may also be to make it look better (more expensive).
Some cocktails are topped with two Maraschino cherries
Image source: wiki
Can't remember the cherry flavor on the cake when you were a child, perhaps, have you ever drunk cherry-flavored Coke?
Warren Buffett's favorite cola
If you haven't drunk it, let's take a look at a certain review and you feel it:
This is because cherry-flavored cola simulates not the taste of fresh cherries, but Maraschino cherries, braving a bitter almond flavor. It's really hard to eat/drink in the same vein...
2
How to choose cherries?
In this way, it is still delicious to see fresh cherries and cherries. Although cherries are firmer than cherry pulp and can withstand long-distance transportation, they are still much more delicate than apples and oranges, which can be placed until the wasteland is old and will not change much.
Then when buying cherries, you must look at the freshness, according to my habit to pick is to pick a good look: the greener the stalk, the fresher; The fruit surface is smooth and shiny; There should be no dark wounds on the surface of the fruit; Usually darker colors are sweeter.
The above are relying on our eyes to initially analyze freshness and sweetness, the hard indicator is the "J" marked on the package, daily pronounced as "hook", used to measure the size of cherries, the larger the fruit diameter, the more J, the more expensive the price.
Gluttons may be familiar with this, so let's take a brief look at how J is graded:
The advanced level is JJJJ level
Image source network
A little more advanced, we can also look at the varieties again.
Early maturing varieties
Brooks Brooks, Santina Santina, Royal Dawn, Van Vanguard
Medium-ripe varieties
RAINIER RAINIER, SEQUOIA CHERRY GLEN RED, LABINS LAPINS, BING BING, STANLA STELLA, SWEETHEART SWEET HEART
Late-maturing varieties
KODIA, SKINA STEENA, REGINA REGINA
Don't ask me which one is delicious, because I haven't eaten several either.
I did see someone post cherries in a red book, this cherry is lighter than other cherries, with a beautiful golden yellow, through the red halo, the taste, of course——
Full of the smell of money...
(wipes away his tears and goes on) Even if it is expensive and cheap, cherries must be washed and eaten when they are bought.
Cherries are delicate and expensive, and they cannot be vigorously rubbed when washing. Generally speaking, there are no worms in fresh cherries without breakage, and cherries with broken skin may become a baby paradise for fruit flies. Do not remove the fruit stalk when washing, rinse with clean water, and then soak in light salt water for 30 minutes to force out the possible baby fruit fly, and then rinse it with running water to eat it with confidence.
3
Can transliteration become foreign?
The origin of the name kiwifruit is also transliterated like cherries.
Kiwi native to China, after arriving in New Zealand, changed its name several times, experienced Yang Tao (carambola), Chinese Gooseberry (Chinese gooseberry), melonettes (French "melon") various names, and later exported from New Zealand to the United States in order to avoid taxes, the name of kiwifruit was changed to Kiwifruit, and then exported to China, the name of Kiwifruit was retained, transliterated as kiwifruit, and the value doubled.
It's a kiwi I can't afford anymore
Image source network
In addition to these two, fruits that rise in value with the transliteration of the rising tide, there are strawberry that is not a pear, and Red delicious apple, which has nothing to do with snakes. Even grapes are called Bodhi Zi in the Cantonese region, referred to as grapes and spread...
The name of cherry "abandoned" is that other fruits cannot be sought, such as the acerola cherry bearing the name of the cherry, which is actually the fruit of the concave edge of the aceae (acerola australis of the family Aceae). It may be that the family is not famous and looks like a cherry, so it runs amok with the name of the acerola cherry.
Acerola cherries, at first glance, look a little like small apples
Image source: iplantz.com
I have talked a lot about today, so let's briefly conclude
I wish you all cherry freedom this year!
Written by | Lin Sui
Part of the picture | Figureworm Creative
WeChat Editor | Ah what cool