How to choose good and beautiful pomelos to burn incense on Tet

If Dien grapefruit in the North needs to select the fruit with the more and more crust, the green skin pomelos in the South need to select a new heavy-handed hand with plenty of water.

Grapefruit is a fruit selected to burn incense quite popular in both the South and the North during the Lunar New Year. Due to the purpose of placing on the altar on the first day of the year, the quality of the fruit is very focused. If grapefruit is not delicious, dry or rotten, many people will fear that it will not bring luck for the whole year. If in the North, Tet is a chance to harvest grapefruit Dien sweet, then in the South, the altar of Tet cannot be full of green skin pomelo.

How to choose Dien grapefruit

Sweet, fragrant and pure, Dien grapefruit is famous all over the country, favored by many consumers. Dien is the name of the land in Phu Dien commune, Bac Tu Liem, Hanoi, has long been famous for its fresh and sweet yellow grapefruit on the ancestor tray.

Characteristics of Dien grapefruit are natural aroma, round shape, small stalks.

Appearance

Characteristics of Dien grapefruit are natural aroma, round shape, small stalks. Pomelo peel is thin, ugly (less smooth), yellow straw or dark yellow. The fruits are tan, flattened, dark yellow sweeter than fresh gold. If you choose Dien grapefruit to eat right away, choose the wrinkled, wrinkled skin. At this time, pomelos shrank down a lot of water, the fragrance was subtle.

Chinese grapefruit has larger stalks than Dien grapefruit, thicker, shiny colors, big, long, lemon-yellow, different from straw and dark yellow of Dien grapefruit.

Mass

Grapefruit Dien holding hand, standard weight of 600-800 grams / fruit (to about 3 fists), Chinese pomelo weighs 1.8-2 kg.

Inside

The grapefruit of Dien grapefruit is very thin, when peeled, it must be careful if not, it will cut into the pomelo inside, it is aesthetic. Inside Dien grapefruit, when peeled to the pulp layer, there is a shiny yellow silk shell. Peeling, golden cloves are smooth, sweet, fragrant.

Inside Dien grapefruit, when peeled to the pulp layer, there is a shiny yellow silk shell.

Methods of preservation

After picking about 3 months, the grapefruit peels again, becomes more watery and tastes more sweet. You store it by wiping it clean, putting grapefruit in a net bag, or lining up grapefruit on a dry sand corner. Do not put grapefruit in net bags when weather is tight. Especially, absolutely do not put grapefruit in the refrigerator, avoid damage quickly.

Price

The average price of Dien grapefruit ranges from 40,000 to 90,000 VND / fruit, the longer the tree is, the better the price, the higher the price (more than 20 years), the lower age trees will have lower prices.

How to choose green skin grapefruit

In the South, specialty is green skin grapefruit, pink intestine, sweet and sour taste, very thirsty. Moreover, green skin pomelos have beautiful appearance, skin stretch, green so it is indispensable on the altar of Tet. However, if you do not know how to choose green skin grapefruit, it is easy to buy a grapefruit that is dry, small, eat sour or bland.

Delicious green skin grapefruit usually has a stretched skin.

Appearance

Delicious green skin grapefruit usually has a stretched skin. Grapefruit peel is slightly yellowish green. The thorns on grapefruit peel must be big, the new pomelo fruit will be succulent.

When choosing to buy grapefruit, it is also necessary to carefully observe the stalk of grapefruit. Please take the stalk grapefruit with green, fresh leaves. Stalks must stick to the fruit. You can check whether pomelos are fresh by using a fingernail to click on the pomelos of pomelos if you find that the stalks are fresh stalks.

Inside

The citrus green grapefruit must be well-sprung, the peach is pink, eat sweet, peel off and have less seeds. If you choose the right green grapefruit, it will have a sweet, fragrant, fragrant, succulent but not crushed, delicious.

Mass

Should not be too big. Take the weight from 1.2kg up to 1.5kg. Many big grapefruit fruits have thick pulp and bark, but the pomelo part is very small, when eating citrus is usually more dry and sour, so take the fruits regularly, balanced in size.

Should not be too big.Take the weight from 1.2kg up to 1.5kg.

You can try to check grapefruit by holding a grapefruit on it and which fruit is heavier than its size, but it will be good. Grapefruit with thin crust will have a "clink" sound, while "bup bup" sound is a thick shell. The shell is thick, it may be that the pomelo fruit is not ripe, so it will be sour and less water.

Price

Every year, green skin pomelo costs 35,000 - 50,000 VND / kg. Particularly this year, pomelos prices increased to VND 60,000, even VND 70,000 / kg. In the market, green pomelos classified by sellers, based on weight will have different prices. Grapefruit type 1 from over 1.3kg, type 2 from 1 to 1.3kg, type 3 is under 1kg, the price varies between types of 12,000 to 15,000 VND / kg.