Green fruits can be eaten directly as fruit. Green fruits are also called green olives, olives, sweet olives, clam fruits, etc. They are named because they can be eaten fresh when the fruits are still green. The green fruit is slightly astringent when you first eat it, but after being put in your mouth for a long time, the aftertaste is sweet.

The pulp of green fruit is rich in nutrients, including 17 kinds of amino acids needed by the human body. The pulp is rich in calcium and vitamin C. Fresh food is good for human health, especially it contains more calcium, which is helpful for children's bone development. Fresh green fruits taste sour when eaten raw, but when chewed for a long time, they taste sweet and full of fragrance. People with throat problems, sticky phlegm and coughs will especially feel comfortable after chewing. It tastes sweet, sour and flat, and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, soothing the throat and reducing phlegm, producing body fluids and quenching thirst. Qingguo can be eaten raw or boiled to drink, and it can also relieve hangover.

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Green fruit is native to China and can be eaten fresh or processed. It is a famous subtropical specialty fruit tree. Green fruit is a specialty of Fuzhou and was listed as a tribute as early as the Tang Dynasty. When I first ate Fuzhou Qingguo, I felt it was bitter and astringent, but after the aftertaste, I found it fragrant and sweet. Fuzhou green fruit producing areas are mainly distributed on both sides of the lower reaches of the Min River, with Minhou and Minqing counties producing the most.

Fujian Province is the province with the largest distribution of green fruits in China, and is also cultivated in Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Sichuan, Zhejiang and other provinces. According to statistics, the green fruit planting area in Fujian Province alone is more than 200,000 acres, the picking area is more than 50,000 acres, and the output is more than 20,000 tons. The average yield per mu is less than 400 kilograms. Compared with citrus, loquat, and longan, the gap is still very large. big.

The green fruits cultivated in China belong to the genus Qingguo of the family Qingguo family. There are two main cultivated species: Bailan and Wulan. There are still a small number of wild species distributed in Yunnan and other places. Qingguo has a cultivation history of more than 2,000 years. After long-term natural and artificial selection and domestication cultivation, numerous genetic resources have been formed. Most of the existing varieties are farm varieties selected from the seed group, and their offspring have great variation. There are many intermediate traits and the variety resources are extremely rich.

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