How to recognize Chinese gold mesh melon

The characteristics of Vietnamese yellow melon mesh are also very different from Chinese gold mesh melon, the sellers said.

Go to the wholesale market will be clear of Chinese goods

According to Mr. Trung, if you want to know the origin of gold mesh melon in particular and fruit in general, people go to the wholesale market.

Only people trading fruits selling on the street, or fruit merchants at the new market, apply a technique to exchange Chinese goods into Vietnamese goods, both easy to sell and profit more. Also in the wholesale market, Chinese goods are Chinese goods, Vietnamese goods are Vietnamese goods, there is no story of exchanging " nationality" of fruits, Mr. Trung said.

Chinese gold mesh melon has an elongated shape shaped like a melon melon.

Recognizing this, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Nga, a fruit merchant at the Long Bien wholesale market, said that, 15 years of sticking to the fruit trade at the wholesale market, she has never seen a trafficker lie. . People often declare the origin of the fruits that they give up for small retailers.

"As a trafficker, no one hides the puzzle. So, if people do not want to eat Chinese fruits, they should skip 1-2 sessions through the wholesale market to find out what Vietnamese goods are and where they are. Ship as well as how to distinguish between Chinese fruits and domestic fruits , " said Ms Nga.

Concerning the golden mesh melon, Ms Nga said that if it is hard to pay attention to, the buyer will be able to tell right away.

After the Vietnam gold grid, there is a round shape.

According to Ms Nga, melon gold in Vietnam has not been grown as popular as watermelons, so the quantity sold is not much, mostly collected by shops and supermarkets. Fruit stalls at people's markets are almost impossible to enter.

The characteristics of the Vietnamese Golden Mesh are also very different from the Chinese Golden Mesh. For example, the yellow melon in Vietnam is usually small, round , the average weight is only 1kg / fruit, the largest is only 1.5kg / fruit.

Meanwhile, Chinese gold melon usually has elongated shape (Vietnamese watermelon melon variety). In the main season, Chinese yellow melon usually weighs 3-4 kg / fruit, weighing up to 4.5 kg. If not the government, as at the present time, the Chinese gold net weighs only 2-2.5 kg / fruit.

In terms of quality, both types of melons eat crunchy. Particularly for sweetness, depending on the weather, they will have different sweet and pale tastes. Sometimes Chinese yellow melon is more sweet than Vietnamese yellow melon and vice versa. Therefore, it is not possible to rely on sweet or light characteristics to distinguish the two types of melon together.