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Written by | Ah Xian
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When you happily go to some tourist attractions and are attracted by the charming natural scenery, you will often come across some fruit stalls, on which you have never seen many fruits that you have never seen before, some of them are golden, some are very shiny, and they look very attractive. On a hot summer day or a tired journey, you try to get a cool and full salvation from it.
However, behind these seemingly fresh and healthy fruits lies a shocking scam......
Synthetic fruits
You must have seen this kind of high-value "fruit" - golden prune or crystal fruit in scenic spots or on the roadside, and the price ranges from 30 to 60 yuan a catty. Golden prune has the size of red dates, the surface is crystal clear, and the golden yellow appearance reveals a gradient red, as if it is the extreme eccentricity of nature that gives it such a beautiful appearance. Not only that, but its identity is also very "noble". Almost every seller pats their chests and says, "This is a fresh fruit in season, a new variety shipped from the United States." ”
Many people buy a little bit with the mentality of never eating it, only to find that a few small ones cost more than a dozen yuan, and on average, the price of one is more expensive than cherries. However, after tasting it, it was discovered that its beautiful appearance was all deceitful, and a strong taste of industrial saccharin lingered in the mouth.
金西梅和扁担是标配|@月月月朦
In fact, golden prunes are not prunes at all, not even fresh fruits, but a kind of preserves. Generally, it is made by taking the small hairy peaches or rotten plums that are eliminated after thinning the fruit of the peach tree, adding a little sugar and coloring and pickling. This kind of scam has existed for many years, and sometimes the routine is too much and people's vigilance is raised, so it will change its vest and turn into a "golden fruit", "champagne fruit" or "golden fragrant fruit", and continue to deceive people. However, no matter what the name is, it cannot escape its fraudulent nature.
With so many additives, does anyone really like to eat them?
Confuse the real with the fake
Along with the golden prune, there is also a shiny "fruit" - Garbo fruit, some sellers will call it dragon fruit, black plum or tree grape. When you successfully escaped the trap of Jinsimei, learn to be smart, and search on the Internet before buying, it turned out that Garbo fruit is really fruitful, and you think that you will not be deceived now. But in fact, most of the stalls selling Garbo fruit sell fake Garbo fruit, and the main thing is to confuse the real with the fake!
In order to highlight its nobility, the seller will cut the grapes from the branches and wax them, and then sell them there one by one, which has a kind of temperament that ordinary people can't afford to eat.
In order to pretend that it is fresh, the seller will also put a few leaves that I don't know where it was plucked. |@进击的多肉
A shiny fake!!(The editor was deceived)|@阿山乔啊
So, what does the real Garbo look like, and why has it been reduced to the point of being impersonated?
Plinia cauliflora (scientific name: Plinia cauliflora) is actually also known as Pseudo-Eros tree, wood grape, tree grape, is an evergreen shrub of the family Myrtaceae, which can grow to 10~12 meters tall. Garbo fruit trees are lush with green and leafy foliage throughout the year, and can bloom and bear fruit all year round. At the time of flowering, small yellowish flowers appear on the branches of the Garbo fruit tree, and after the flowers fall, small fruits will appear.
Flowers and fruits on the branches of the Garbo fruit tree|wiki
Initially, the fruit is green, but when it grows to a certain point, it will turn red, and it will not turn black and purple until it is ripe, and the flesh will be white and slightly transparent. The flesh is sweet and the skin is sour. It is rich in nutrients such as vitamin C and trace elements such as phosphorus and magnesium, and is known as "the black diamond that grows on the tree".
This is what the ripe Garbo fruit looks like|wiki
It can also be seen from the alias of the garbo fruit "tree grape", people often confuse it with grapes, but in fact, the relationship between the garbo fruit and grapes is weak in taxonomy, and it belongs to a different order under the rose plant. On the contrary, Garbo fruit is closer to guava and lotus mist, which also belong to the myrtle family. Secondly, grapes are vines with smaller and clustered fruits, while Garbo fruits are evergreen shrubs with larger fruits that grow independently one by one from the branches of the tree.
Image source: @水果猎人杨晓洋
Finally, if you really want to try Garbo fruit but are worried about being deceived by fake grapes, you can tell them apart by looking closely at the stalks and flesh of grapes and Garbo fruits: the grapes have thicker stalks, are covered with pockmarks, and the flesh is transparent green (no one knows about grape eaters, right?). The real Garbo fruit has a thinner stalk, which is white when cut inside, and there is a "buttocks" on the other side corresponding to the stalk.
The flesh is white, and the Garbo fruit in the lower left corner has an "ass" on it|wiki
It's good to change your name to Dafa
I don't know if the seller thinks that as long as the fake fruit with "gold" is particularly popular, this kind of "Jinsha fruit" claimed to be produced by the Jinsha River, once sold at a high price in an ancient city. It is said that this appearance is a brown-red golden sand fruit, rich in juice, and the flesh is also rich in nutrients, which is a bit similar to coconut, but the taste and beauty effect are several times better than coconut.
But in fact, this fruit is coconut. The coconut has three layers of skin, the exocarp is thin and smooth, with green and yellow colors, the mesocarp is made up of thick brown fibers, which is white when unripe and has a high water content, and the endocarp is thin but also hard. Some vendors took a fancy to the coconuts, which had been stripped of their outer two layers of "clothes", waxed them and sold them as exotic fruits.
Image source: @水果猎人杨晓洋
Forward it to a family group of people who love each other, and don't make a big complaint during the holidays.
Resources:
[1]https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1717113041541871265&wfr=spider&for=pc
[2]https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E6%8B%9F%E7%88%B1%E7%A5%9E%E6%9C%A8
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/learning/hearing-colors-and-tasting-sounds-what-is-synesthesia.html
[3]https://www.sohu.com/a/533779907_100117593