The supermarket is marked "pearl fruit, USA", which is mostly distributed in the northeast. There is a lantern-shaped skin wrapped outside, and the fruit is yellow and multi-seeded.
There are two kinds of ripe fruits: yellow and red, and the skin is soft. After peeling, you can see the fruit. The sweetness of yellow. The red ones are bitter and sweet.
"Mushroom" is also called "girl". (The two pronunciations are similar) The gu bird is golden yellow when it matures, and it can smell a mellow smell when it is put into its mouth to eat. It is a very simple taste alias: Gu Gu, Girl, Fructus Cannabis, dog shit fruit, sour pulp, wild papaya fruit, sand lantern and golden lantern fruit. Its scientific name is sour pulp.
Physalis alkekengi is a kind of fruit and vegetable with rich nutrition. Can be eaten raw, sugar-stained, vinegar-stained or used as fruit pulp. The fruit is rich in fragrance and delicious. Berry is rich in vitamin C, β-carotene, more than 20 mineral elements and 18 amino acids needed by human body, which has certain curative effect on aplastic anemia. The fruit has the effect of clearing heat and diuresis, and can be used externally to diminish inflammation. The whole plant can be prepared into pesticides.
Sour pulp is also the main seasoning of traditional pasta noodles in Luoyang, Henan Province. Green soybean milk is the best pulp for making noodles.
There are many workshops specializing in making sour pulp in Luoyang city. When making pulp, first soak mung beans or peas in water, put them on a stone mill to grind them into coarse pulp, filter them with gauze to remove residues, and then put them in pots or cans. After a day or two, the slurry will ferment and turn sour before it can be used to cook noodles.