Is red strawberry genetically modified?
Red strawberry is not genetically modified. It is a new variety cultivated through hybridization, so you can eat it safely.
Hongyan strawberry (also known as Red Cheek Strawberry, Japan No.99, Red Cheek) is the best Japanese strawberry series at present, and Hongyan strawberry seedling, also known as Red Cheek, is an early-maturing cultivated variety bred by crossing Zhang Ji and Xing Xiang in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The root system has strong growth ability and absorption ability, shallow dormancy, and can shoot inflorescences for 4 times, and each inflorescence can blossom and bear fruit continuously without interruption. Hongyan strawberry is a new strawberry variety with large fruit type, which was bred by crossing Yukio as the male parent and Zhangji as the female parent in Jiuzuki Strawberry Breeding Farm of Japan's Agriculture and Forestry Ministry. This variety has strong continuous fruiting and high yield, with an average yield of more than 3g per plant and about 18kg per 667m2. It has the advantages of vigorous growth, high yield, large fruit shape, good taste, beautiful appearance, good commodity and so on. It can be used as both fresh food and processing, and is suitable for greenhouse cultivation. It is an excellent variety with great development prospects.
what is a cream strawberry?
Cream strawberry is not a genetically modified fruit. Early milk (cream) strawberry refers to Zhangji, because this variety has a faint milk fragrance and is a better strawberry variety. Because of the low yield and high quality, the picking price is high. It is not storable. If you want to keep it for two more days, it is recommended to pick it when it is 78% ripe. Strictly speaking, there is no "cream strawberry" among the varieties of strawberries, which is just the name given by dealers or producers, which is suspected of misleading consumers by speculation, and it is not the so-called milk irrigation.
How to choose strawberries
1. Look at the color.
Strawberries with uniform color and ruddy color have good taste, and different varieties have their own colors, such as bright red for beauty, orange red for fragrance, and deep red for book fragrance. Look at the color of sepals and fruit stalks of strawberries. Strawberries with green sepals and fruit stalks have higher freshness.
look at the head.
2. Jiang Guihua, deputy director of the Horticulture Institute of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, pointed out that the bigger the strawberry, the better the taste, and the bigger the strawberry, the weaker the taste. Therefore, strawberries that are larger than quail eggs and have ruddy colors taste better.
how to wash strawberries
don't take off the stalks of strawberries, so as to avoid residual bacteria entering the fruit with water. Rinse with tap water continuously, and the flowing water can prevent pesticides from infiltrating into the fruit. It is best to soak and wash strawberries in light salt water or rice washing water for 5 minutes. Light salt water can kill harmful microorganisms remaining on strawberry surface; Rice washing water is alkaline, which can promote the degradation of acidic pesticides.