Nutritious and delicious grapefruit is on the market again! It's sweet and sour, but when so many yellow grapefruit are in front of you in the fruit shop, what should you choose?
How can you choose grapefruit with thin skin and thick flesh and sweet water? 4 tips can help you get rid of the difficulty of choosing grapefruit
How to pick a good grapefruit?
1, look at the shape
Yuzu should try to choose a large one, and generally the large one will ripen better. Choose a head with a pointed head, a short neck, and a wide and flat underside; the whole body is round or the skin of the head is large and long, generally thicker.
2, look at the color
Grapefruit should choose a skin color that is relatively uniform, and grapefruit with green hair is generally not very mature. But don't pick grapefruit that is too yellow in color, this grapefruit will be too mature to cause moisture loss, affecting the taste.
3. Touch it
The skin of ripe grapefruit is smooth and delicate to the touch, and the other way around, it feels rougher.
You can also press the grapefruit by hand, if it is not easy to press and feel very hard, it means that the skin is thin and the flesh is full; if it is soft and soft, it means that the skin is thicker or not fresh.
4. Sweep it
Two grapefruits of the same size are swept by hand, and the flesh of the heavy ones is fuller and the moisture is sufficient.
Remember the five-word rule of picking grapefruit: big, pointed, yellow, hard, heavy.
Red heart grapefruit or white heart grapefruit?
The variety of grapefruit is often overwhelming, and the price of the grapefruit makes us not know how to choose.
Red heart grapefruit, which is advertised as rich in various nutrients, is loved by people, and the price is also rising. Is the nutritional value of red heart grapefruit really as high as its price? Red heart grapefruit and white heart grapefruit, how should we choose?
In fact, the biggest nutritional difference between red heart grapefruit and white heart grapefruit is:
Red grapefruit has more lycopene and carotene than white grapefruit. Lycopene has an antioxidant effect and can play an anti-aging effect; while carotene can be converted into vitamin A in the human body, which helps prevent the occurrence of respiratory diseases.
But this does not mean that the nutritional value of red heart grapefruit is higher than that of white grapefruit, after all, the content of vitamin C of white grapefruit can be much higher than that of red grapefruit.
So why is the red heart grapefruit sold more expensive? That's because the rarity is expensive, and the red heart grapefruit production is small, so it is naturally more expensive to sell.
Although the red heart grapefruit and the white heart grapefruit have their own nutritional value, in terms of taste, the red heart grapefruit is slightly better!
Although grapefruit is delicious and has many benefits of high nutrition, not all people are suitable for eating grapefruit.
2 People are not suitable for eating grapefruit
Qi deficiency, weak spleen and stomach are not good people
Grapefruit is cold, spleen and stomach, cold people are best to eat less grapefruit.
People who are taking these medications
When eating grapefruit, you should not take anti-allergic drugs, immunosuppressive drugs, sedative sleeping pills, antipyretic analgesics, lipid-lowering drugs, antihypertensive drugs, and antihypertensive drugs at the same time. Eating a large amount of grapefruit or grapefruit juice during the period of taking antihypertensive drugs will produce a serious reaction of a sudden drop in blood pressure, causing serious consequences.
Doctors remind: Compared with ordinary grapefruit, grapefruit is also commonly known as grapefruit is more harmful, and it is best to avoid eating it during taking medicine. In addition, all citrus fruits and their juices such as citrus, oranges, etc. should also be noted.
Grapefruit can be said to be a "treasure" all over the body, in addition to the rich nutritional value of the pulp, grapefruit peel has many uses.
Yuzu peel can still be used in this way
1, in addition to the refrigerator odor
Putting the grapefruit skin in the refrigerator can effectively adsorb the odor of the refrigerator and freshen the air of the refrigerator.
2. Repel mosquitoes and promote sleep
Hanging the grapefruit skin thread rope from the head of the bed can repel mosquitoes. You can also use the grapefruit peel as a mosquito coil after drying, and the taste is better than the mosquito coil.
3. Treat frostbite
After frostbite in winter, you can cook the sun-dried grapefruit peel over low heat until the soup is thick, then use a clean towel or medical gauze dipped in the soup to heat the frostbite, remove it after 5 minutes, rinse with water. This method should not be used if frostbite has been broken.
4. Moisturize the lungs and relieve cough, clear the heat and throat
Cut the grapefruit peel into pieces, add water to the pot and boil it, and drink the grapefruit water, which has the effect of moisturizing the lungs and throat.
If you like to drink honey grapefruit tea, you can also try to make it with your hands
Homemade honey grapefruit tea
Ingredients: grapefruit peel, grapefruit meat, honey 80g, rock sugar 20g, a pinch of salt.
1: Wash the grapefruit peel, cut the yellow skin into strips, soak in hot water with salt for 15 minutes, rub and drain.
2: Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and water to the pot, cook until the rock sugar is slightly melted, then add the grapefruit skin, cook for 10 minutes on high heat and add the grapefruit meat, turn the heat down and cook until the water is dry.
3, fish out and put in a glass jar to cool, add an appropriate amount of honey, seal, put in the refrigerator to store, when drinking, it is best to rinse with warm water.
Edited by / Huang Qianwen
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