Introduction: Hello everyone, here is the farmer to see the farmer, every day to share the new things in the countryside, share the planting technology and the market. Today's theme is: a "golden egg" in the countryside, often eating skin without meat, after curing is the best, selling well at home and abroad.
It has been some time since winter, and both the north and the south have felt the cold of winter. Although it snows in the north and the temperature is still lower than in the south, the north has heating and can hardly feel the cold compared to the south. The real cold should be said to be the wet cold of the south, under the blowing of the cold wind and a little drizzle, that kind of cold can be regarded as cold enough to penetrate deep into the bone marrow.
With the arrival of cold air, the seasons are changing, and there is a kind of "golden egg" in the southern countryside that has begun to mature. Speaking of golden eggs, many people must first think of loquat this delicious fruit. Just at this time, the loquat in the south also began to mature, and the early maturing varieties began to be picked and marketed. However, the "golden egg" that I want to introduce today is not loquat, but a relatively niche fruit, which is generally not easy to see on the market, and rural people call it kumquat, and there are also places called golden dates.
This fruit belongs to a kind of citrus, but its size is too small, only the size of the jujube, so some people call it a golden date. If loquat fruit resembles a golden egg, the shape and color of a kumquat is closer to a golden egg than a loquat. Kumquat is a species of the russet family, a subfamily of citrus. Like other citrus, kumquats are subtropical fruits and are mainly distributed in the south of the Yangtze River in China.
Kumquat is a relatively special fruit, even after ripening, the taste of kumquat is still sweet in the skin, and the flesh is so sour that people close their eyes. For this fresh kumquat, it is often eaten in the eyes of many rural people without meat. Its peel is sweet and delicious, while the flesh and juice are very acidic, and the average person eats one and absolutely does not dare to eat the second.
When we went into the mountains to pick wild kumquats when we were young, we often peeled off the skin and ate it, and the flesh was thrown away. I remember that the old man in the village once said that to prevent colds in winter, you must eat more kumquats. But do not understand this sentence, now know that the original old man told us to eat more kumquat because kumquat contains a high level of vitamin C, daily consumption can supplement vitamin C, can play an effective role in preventing colds.
In ancient times, we can also find a lot of kumquat records, such as the Southern Song Dynasty, Han Yanzhi's "Orange Record" recorded: "Kumquat out of Jiangxi, the northern people do not know, Jingyou zhong to The capital, because Empress Wencheng is fond of it, the price is expensive."
If you want to talk about kumquats 30 years ago, it is much more difficult to eat than today's kumquats. Since the 1980s, the kumquat variety has undergone several improvements and the taste has changed slightly, but it has not yet reached the ideal state. Therefore, this fruit is still a niche fruit and rarely circulates in the fruit market.
At present, kumquat in the market circulation is mainly used to process into preserves or pickled into dried kumquat, especially after pickling of dried kumquat, the taste has undergone a great change, compared to the acid of fresh fruit, pickled kumquat should be said to be sweet and sour, but also has a certain stomach digestion effect, in the candied fruit market is very popular.
In recent years, kumquat products have gone abroad and sold to some countries in Southeast Asia, embarking on the road of foreign exchange earning. In addition, kumquat is also considered by Traditional Chinese medicine to be a kind of warm, sweet, into the lungs, bile meridians, with the effect of relieving depression and coughing phlegm. Suitable for fever disease dry mouth, cough and phlegm and other symptoms.
I wonder if you know kumquat? How do you eat your local kumquats? Welcome to leave a message to tell your views, this article is only the author's personal opinion, for reference only. Image from the web!