Some of the more peculiar-looking fruits on the market can always better attract consumers, such as the typical fruit bufuna in the south, also called black tiger, a bit like a small color ball, eating is also very special, you need to open the fruit grains one by one, attracting many people to buy; there is also August fried, when ripe, the fruit will naturally explode, revealing the flesh of it, which is quite famous in Hunan and Hubei. Rambutan is also a strange-looking fruit, resembling a chestnut, once regarded as a "canned fruit", and now selling for 12 yuan a pound, which is rare.
The common chestnuts on the market are processed, the brown peel is smooth and bright, which has been peeled, and people who have planted chestnuts know that the raw chestnuts growing on the trees have a very hard shell, and the outside is wrapped with thin and long spikes, which are easy to stab people.
Rambutan is very similar to the unshelled chestnut, and there are many spines on the surface of the shell, the difference is that rambutan is soft thorns, thin and long. The common rambutan peel is red, very bright, coupled with slender spines, very recognizable, always looks very different in the fruit, and there are some yellow rambutan, but the number is too small, and only a few people have seen and eaten it.
Rambutan is a typical tropical fruit, the origin is Malaysia, it is very popular abroad, known as the king of tropical fruits, in Thailand and Vietnam is more widely cultivated, is also one of the four major fruits in Thailand, along with durian and mangosteen. After the introduction of species to China, there are not many suitable areas for rambutan, and at present, only a few counties and cities in Hainan have cultivation, and the scale is generally not large and the number is limited.
Rambutan this fruit and lychee is very similar, the taste is also very similar, both after peeling the shell are white flesh, crystal clear, planing outside the appearance factors, only rely on the flesh to judge, most people can not distinguish, also known as "mao lychee".
Rambutan in terms of delicacy is also very similar to lychee, not resistant to transportation, so it is rare in the market, 20 years ago, people basically made it into canned, so rambutan is also known as "canned fruit", mainly produced in Hainan, the output is not much, processed canned is naturally only a few. In the past, Rambutan's fame was not great, except for the place of origin, only a few provinces had to sell, and there was almost no rambutan in the north, so many northerners did not know the existence of rambutan.
In recent years, rambutan has a certain reputation, began to have fresh fruit appeared on the market, because of the limited domestic production, coupled with high transportation costs, the price of rambutan is relatively expensive, a pound sold for 12 yuan, but unfortunately the final market effect is not ideal. Rambutan pulp sticks to the core, the flesh and the core of the connection part is difficult to peel off, often attached to the flesh of a layer of hard core skin, very affect the taste, to the market performance is not as good as the expectations of the merchants, coupled with the Internet about this layer of core peel can not be eaten, rambutan will gradually lose consumer recognition.
People always like to compare rambutan and lychee, thinking that the two are too similar in many aspects, and even some people think that rambutan is a variant of lychee, in fact, this understanding is wrong, these are completely different varieties. In some respects, lychee is better than rambutan, such as its more flesh and sweeter taste, compared to rambutan's taste is much lighter, for those who like to eat fruit, the sweeter taste of lychee is more suitable for themselves.
Rambutan's taste is not outstanding, the taste is average, the pulp and core are difficult to peel off, in stark contrast, the market price is still relatively high, it is no wonder that it is not favored in the market, can not catch up with the lychee. Now that August is in full swing, rambutan is ripe, but it is no longer common in the market.