The skin of grapefruit in Baba Farm is edible. Pomelo peel and grapefruit flower can be used as medicine, which is called canned natural fruit. Pomelo peel is sour and contains bitter naringin. The processed ginkgo meat can be made into cooked food, grapefruit candy, citron tea, etc. , and can also be used as medicine. But grapefruit peel is good, but not everyone is suitable for eating. For example, people with high blood pressure and people with qi deficiency are not suitable for eating.

Morphological characteristics of grapefruit

Grapefruit (Citrus maxima(Burm) Merr) belongs to Rutaceae and Citrus. Trees. The shoots, leaf backs, pedicels, calyx and ovary are all pilose, the leaves are usually dark purple, and the shoots are flat and angular. The leaves are thick, dark green in color, oval or oval in width. The leaves in Hebei are 9- 16 cm long and 4-8 cm wide. Racemes, sometimes with axillary single flowers; Buds are purplish red and thin milky white; Calyx irregularly 5-3-lobed; Petal length 1.5-2 cm.

Stamens 25-35, sometimes some stamens are sterile. The fruit is round, oblate, pear-shaped or wide cone-shaped, the peel is extremely thick or thin, spongy, the oil cells are large, the nucleus is convex, solid and soft, and the petals are 10- 15 or as many as 19; There are more than 200 seeds, some of which are seedless, irregular in shape, usually nearly rectangular and single embryo. The flowering period is April-May and the fruiting period is September-65438+February.