Pomelo, a Rutaceae citrus plant, is distributed in the south of the Yangtze River and Southeast Asia. Its shoots, leaf backs, pedicels, calyx and ovary are all pilose, young leaves are usually dark purple-red, shoots are flat and angular, leaves are thick, dark green, broadly oval or oval; Racemes, sometimes with axillary single flowers, lavender buds and thin milky white; Calyx irregularly 5~3-lobed, style thick and long, stigma slightly larger than ovary.
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Grapefruit contains sugar, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin P, carotene, potassium, phosphorus, citric acid and so on. The main components of pomelo peel are naringin, neohesperidin, etc. The pomelo core contains fatty oil, cortex phellodendri, cortex phellodendri lactone, etc.
Grapefruit is rich in nutritional value. It contains a lot of nutrients, including protein and organic acids needed by human body. It also contains a variety of vitamins and essential trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and sodium.