1 Difference between white heart grapefruit and red heart grapefruit

The color and taste are different.

Grapefruit is a genus of citrus plants in the family of Rutaceae, generally according to the color of the pulp can be divided into two kinds of white heart grapefruit and red heart grapefruit.

For the white grapefruit, its skin is generally golden yellow, and relatively thin, so it is also known as "golden grapefruit", its flesh is yellow-white, eat tender and juicy, sweet and acid-free; and red grapefruit skin is generally yellow in the red, also known as the "grapefruit". "grapefruit", the flesh is slightly aromatic, acidic taste.

2 How does grapefruit taste

Depends.

Compared to ordinary grapefruit, grapefruit contains more water, so it will be more moist and juicy to eat, but for different colors of grapefruit, its taste will be different.

For the white grapefruit, its taste is sweeter, more suitable for people who can not eat acid directly, and for the red grapefruit, its taste is more acidic, more suitable for people with good teeth to eat or used for cooking.

3 Grapefruit how to eat not bitter

You can only eat the pulp part.

Generally in the inner layer of the grapefruit rind, the center of the flesh, the location of the petals will have some white inner flesh and meridian part, these substances contain more volatile oil components, eat up the taste is more bitter.

And these parts and grapefruit connected more closely, if the treatment is not clean then eat up will be more bitter, if you want to eat grapefruit is not bitter, then you need to be thoroughly clear and clean before eating.

4 Grapefruit contraindications

1, excessive gastric acid secretion: grapefruit contains more organic acid components, consumption will stimulate the secretion of human gastric acid, so for some of their own gastric acid secretion and suffer from gastritis, gastric ulcers and other gastric disorders of the crowd, it is not recommended to eat.

2, taking antihypertensive drugs: grapefruit contains some furan coumarin, this material into the human body after the inhibition of liver CYP3A4 enzyme activity, and antihypertensive drugs generally need to be metabolized by the CYP3A4 enzyme, so for the patients who are taking antihypertensive drugs is not recommended to eat.