To pick the right size of the fruit, too big is very likely to be hormones, expanding agent or something catalyzed. In short, it's best not to buy anything that's too big, whether it's fruit or river crabs, fish and shrimp!
Southern fruits sold in the north are mostly ripened with a messy east, because the southern fruits are not good transportation after ripening, can only be transported over the raw and then processed ripe, so try to eat local fruits is also a way.
Generally a smell, two see, three pinch. First smell there is no fruit should have the flavor, but also smell there is no other strange smell. Secondly, there is no black or rotten place. Three pinch a pinch, there is no need to say
Pick the principle of the fruit is the color is good-looking glossy, but also look at the root of the fruit is not enough concave, there is no a circle, there is a mother, the mother of the fruit is sweeter.
Fruit selection strategy:
Mango:
Mango varieties: Egg Mango (Fujian called), the aroma is stronger shape more oval, the flesh is orange, such as a small egg so big, super sweet and super fragrant, suitable for juicing, the juice is very thick, you can blend some light honey water; than the egg Mango a little worse than the waist Mango, the shape of a small pig's waist, the flesh is yellow, there is a yellow, this mango core is very thin. The core is very thin, this mango is very sweet, but the flavor is not as good as the egg mango; there are ivory mango, toffee mango, not ripe enough will be a little astringent, sour. There is also a green mango green mango, sweeter than the yellow.
Selection: choose the mango must be selected more full, rounded, not soft, not hard, the color yellow pure, fragrance can be smelled from afar, no spots (spots are rotten from the inside), smell, pick about 8 minutes ripe, put a day or two ripe can be eaten, buy ripe that is eaten mango, you can look at the roots of the mango, it should be very refreshing, there is no water, and the skin should not be wrinkled, that kind of mango is not ripe. At the same time the skin can not be wrinkled, that kind of water is gone.
The juice of mango has a component that is not good for the skin, so it is best to eat it in small pieces, do not touch the skin and lips, so it is good
Tangerine, grapefruit, orange:
High body orange, flat body citrus, light body orange". Oranges should be picked tall, mandarins should be flat, and the skin of tangerines should be glossy. Pick oranges, regardless of the variety, there is a ring in the middle of the mother, usually sweeter, there is a point of the male, not the mother of the sweet, pick the skin thin elastic, early orange juice flavor sweet, late orange is more rough and tendon. Pomelo, tangerine, orange to pick up the sinking hand, the skin to pick up the lubrication of the baby's skin, as rough as the face of the hemp don't buy, but the popular winter sugar tangerine is the skin is very rough, smooth are not good. Buy oranges, it is best to buy the bottom, that is, "butt" above a circle. Navel oranges, buy "butt" that hole is concave is sweeter. Pomelo and honeydew are generally the firmer the better. The heavier the pomelo is, the better. Pressing with your hand, the harder the better, the thinner the skin is if you can't press it down, the thinner the skin is, the better. The smoother the skin of the honeydew, the more uniform the color, the more golden, the better. This kind of grapefruit, the flesh of sufficient moisture, sweetness, and the flavor is more positive.
Watermelon, cantaloupe, melon:
Select watermelon, to pick the pattern of the melon feels like open, the tail blossomed in the place of the mouth of the small, "navel" concave into the feel of the melon surface is not smooth, but uneven. Melon color is more green, darker color, with a hand, gently pat, listen to the sound, should feel a little hollow, holding the hand feel slightly vibration, this watermelon is sandy flesh, the inside is not tight. If not cooked, is very dead sound,
Pick white melon should be selected melon smaller, melon big head part of the umbilical cord, but there is a little bit of green, this is a melon of the first leaf knot, better to pick, because the long small. The larger the umbilicus, the better, and the softer the umbilicus is when you press it. Smell the ass of the melon, there is a fragrance is good and sweet good melon
pick cantaloupe to pick the net grain thick and dense, smell the stronger aroma
buy any melon, and melon seedling is not connected to the end of the melon is concave is ripe, good, sweet
Apple:
Fuji should be picked the kind of look of a trace of a trace of yellow through red, so that the The general soil is yellow, crisp and sweet and a little sour, flavor is very positive. Never pick green through a little bit of red, so that the general flavor is a little bland, moisture may also be quite a lot, but the sweetness must not. Authentic red Fuji apples on the table are crooked, there is no positive, otherwise it is certainly not authentic, the color can not be particularly red, some pink, and not red into a piece, to pick the kind of many red silk, and the "navel" to be sunk into the depths of, so that sweet. The skin of the hemp point more, with a finger gently play, crisp and echo, is sweet and crisp.
Buy apples (mainly red Fuji), it is best to choose the appearance of stripes of red (called "strip red"), and red inside some yellow. That kind of apple is crisp, juicy and very sweet.
Durian:
Durian pick flavorful, slightly cracked a little bit, see the inside of the pulp is soft and sticky, and never wet, the pulp is relatively slender, golden, fruit shape is more plump shell is thinner, the flesh of the petals will be more. The kind of oblong, generally thicker shell, thinner flesh. Selection of shell to yellow with green is good.
Lychee:
The selection of lychee to choose the skin uneven, deep lines of the kind of lychee is usually a small nucleus! And the surface is smooth and flat kind, usually the nucleus is very large! Not only to the surface of the red, and pinch to be full of elasticity, if not elasticity is very soft feel a little empty is put a long time. You can also gently press the end of the lychee, if you feel soft, did not press the hard stuff, generally speaking, the nucleus is relatively small, if you can feel press the hard stuff, generally large nucleus.
Pears:
Pears to pick the mother, delicate, juicy and sweet. Female, that is, the top of the nest to choose an even number of umbilical cord deep, umbilical cord around the more round, put the root of the thick.
Grapes:
Grapes should be picked from the whole bunch of full, a grain of dense growth of the kind, first smell the aroma, fruity aroma before buying. If you pick grapes in winter, you must buy fresh. Do not look at the kernels, look at the stalk, fresh grapes, stalk stiff, bright green. When the color becomes dark brown, soft snapping, is picked for a long time, such grapes, although the grapes may also look more solid, but in fact, are the result of low-temperature preservation, and not really fresh. The first thing you need to do is to buy the "rose" grapes and pay attention to the fact that these small grains are not easy to keep.
Bananas:
Bananas do not pick the two ends of the green, that is processed, and not too big, smaller bananas are good to be rounded, not angular bananas, normal yellow, slightly sesame seed point.
Kiwifruit:
Choose kiwifruit must choose the head of the pointed, like a chicken's mouth, and do not choose flat like a duck's mouth of the kind. The duck's beak is the kind of hormone used, the chicken beak is not used hormone or less hormone. The real ripe fruit is super soft, choose to buy a slightly darker color of the kind, is close to the earthy yellow skin, which is a symbol of adequate sunshine, but also sweeter.
Kiwis should be picked for their tender green color, which is fresh. The overall softness is consistent; if one part is soft, it's rotten. The color is darker around the tip, and it's also sweeter.
Peaches:
Peach selection is the first smell, the more fragrant the sweeter, usually look not too good, pick not too soft, the top with a small tip.
Strawberries:
Strawberries do not buy too red, the more colorful the more acidic, red with a little white strawberries the most sweet. Buy strawberries when you do not choose a very large, strange shape of the kind, to choose the size of the same, a little more secure, the color is not particularly red, the best inside with a little white dots.
Papaya:
Papaya is also divided into male and female, the belly is large female, more sweet. Generally pick the bulging stomach, the surface spots a lot, the color just yellow touch is not very soft kind. If the surface is also a little bit of gelatinous things, it does not matter, it is sugar gelatine, so it will be sweeter. Buy papaya if you want to eat immediately, we should pick the yellow skin, but not too soft, so that the papaya is sweet but not rotten. If you do papaya ribs soup and so on, to buy not fully ripe green papaya, this papaya is of course more hard, generally not eaten raw. When ripe, the skin is usually yellow, can be eaten as a fruit. If you make dessert, you should buy red Hawaiian papaya, very sweet.
Elect cucumber, don't buy belly big to small, this is playing hormone.
Elect cherries, to see whether the stalk is fresh. Fresh fruit stalk green, placed for a long time the fruit stalk black. Then look at the skin is wrinkled, wrinkled fruit picking put too long, lose water.
Picking tomatoes, do not pick the kind of angular, and do not pick to feel the weight of a very light, are reddening agent strange. To buy this surface has a layer of light powder like feeling, and the part of the tip must be rounded, if the tip with a light green color, is the most sand the sweetest. Do not buy with the tip and the bottom is very high, to the kind of overall look more smooth, with the tip of the spring is smeared with fast ripening things smeared more. Selection of tomatoes to choose the color pink, round, skin with white dots.