A sharp tip like a small peach, in the face of the cone of chestnut that is slowly firing into the high-end round, is it a pity not to taste it once?
Autumn is the season when chestnuts are ripe and on the market, and more and more people are holding sugar and frying chestnuts in the streets. As the saying goes, one pound of cone chestnuts and three pounds of chestnuts, after eating chestnuts for so many years, have you ever tasted the small and exquisite cone chestnut that is more and more well known to the public?
Unlike chestnuts, the cone chestnut is pointed and more compact
It should be known that the national chestnut planting area has reached more than 1.8 million hectares, while the cone chestnut has only 40,000 hectares, only 2.2% of the former.
On the Jingdong platform, the best Fujian Jian'ou cone chestnut has come to 20 yuan a pound, we usually eat ordinary chestnuts only six or seven yuan, the value is determined by demand, with a pair of snow bright eyes consumers value the aspects of the cone chestnut?
Sweet and delicate enough to be eaten raw.
Cone chestnut, also known as hazelnuts, raw cone chestnut has a crisp taste, sweet taste, and cooked cone chestnut is more delicate and sweet. It can not only be fried and eaten, but can also be used to make soups, stews and so on. The dish is mixed with the sweetness of the cone chestnut and is worth a try.
But the chestnut is not completely compared to the cone chestnut.
These two kinds of chestnuts have the effect of nourishing the spleen and other effects, and the nutritional value is almost the same. The cone chestnut tastes better, the chestnut is more warm, and it can be said that each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Such a good cone chestnut, why maintain a situation of short supply?
Chestnuts are native to China and are now widely cultivated around the world. The cone chestnut is not the case, only distributed in the southern region of China (mainly in Fujian, Zhejiang). Therefore, many friends in the north will feel strange to the cone chestnut.
Why isn't such a good cone chestnut widely grown and made it more affordable for us to eat?
Can cone chestnuts be grown in the north? The answer is yes, but it won't grow as well as in the south, because the optimal temperature for cone chestnuts to grow is between 10-20 degrees Celsius, and the average annual temperature in the north is obviously lower. If the temperature is too low, the cone chestnut is easily frozen.
But at the same time, the temperature can not be too high, the temperature is too high to affect the hibernation of the cone chestnut tree, but also make the cone chestnut stunted. This is also the reason why Hainan, Taiwan and other places south of Nanling are also not suitable for growing cone chestnuts.
In mountainous areas such as northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang, the environment is beautiful, the temperature is suitable, the precipitation is abundant, the temperature difference between day and night is large, which is most conducive to the growth of cone chestnut and the accumulation of nutrients such as sugar, and these areas have become the production areas of the best cone chestnut.
The price of cone chestnut is so high, so why don't we manually expand the cultivation scale of cone chestnut?
The cone chestnut tree is more than 30 meters tall, much taller than the chestnut tree, from planting, deworming, (to know that chestnuts have shells, but still will pick insects) until picking is not easy, individuals and individual families are estimated to be difficult to operate, so there are very few farmers planting.
Secondly, the cone chestnut tree is high, covers a large area, and the yield is also low, so although the unit profit is much higher, the yield of chestnuts is large, the land occupation and cost are much lower, and farmers might as well continue to grow chestnuts, so we eat the cone chestnuts in the mouth or mainly wild drops.
September is the season when chestnuts come to market, so hold the chestnuts in your hand and spend a sweet golden autumn.
Wen | Yuzu Jun