1, Wendan is a good species of pomelo, people in Zhejiang and Fujian area call pomelo Wendan.

2, why is pomelo still called wendan. ? According to legend, "Wendan" is a southern Fujian actress surnamed Wen's stage name, she not only plays outstanding, but also like to plant pomelo trees, each pomelo tree will bear very beautiful pomelo, the ancient books that pomelo because "its color white flavor fragrance, charm and endurance", which is better than the actresses The name is as imaginative as the name of the actress.

3, and because of the generations as tribute to the court, and become a famous fruit. Wendan, whether in MaDou or in ChuMen, is a pomelo grain, thin skin, white meat, juicy, sweet and sour taste.

Expanded Information

Pomelo (scientific name: Citrus maxima (Burm) Merr.), for the family Rutaceae citrus tree. The shoots, leaf backs, pedicels, calyx and ovary are all pilose, the young leaves are usually dark purplish red, and the shoots are flat and angular. Leaves rather thick, densely green, broadly ovate or elliptic; racemes, sometimes with axillary single flowers; flower buds light purplish-red, sparsely creamy-white; calyx irregularly 5-3-lobed; style stout and long, stigma slightly larger than ovary.

Fruit globose, oblate, pyriform, or broadly conical, usually more than 10 cm in transverse diameter; seeds up to 200 or more, but also seedless, irregularly shaped, usually nearly oblong; cotyledons creamy white, simple embryonic. Fl. April-May, fr. Sept-Dec. Cultivated throughout China south of the Yangtze River, and as far north as Xinyang and Nanyang in Henan Province. Cultivated throughout. The pulp is high in vitamin C. It has the effect of digestion and detoxification of alcohol. There are digestion, detoxification effect.

Pomelo contains sugar, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin P, carotene, potassium, phosphorus, citric acid and so on. The main components of pomelo peel naringin, new hesperidin, etc., pomelo kernel contains fat oil, phellodendron, phellodendron lactone. Pomelo is rich in nutrients, per 100 grams of edible part, containing 84.8 grams of water, 0.7 grams of protein,

0.6 grams of fat, 12.2 grams of carbohydrates, calories 57 kcal, 0.8 grams of crude fiber, calcium 41 milligrams, 43 milligrams of phosphorus, 0.9 milligrams of iron, 0.12 milligrams of carotenoids, sulphated 0.07 milligrams of riboflavin 0.02 milligrams of niacin 0.5 milligrams, ascorbic acid 41 milligrams, 0.5 milligrams of niacin, 0.5 milligrams of niacin. mg, ascorbic acid 41 mg.

Reference Pomelo (Citrus aurantium) _ Baidu Encyclopedia?