Revealing Chinese fruit

Partly fresh, eye-catching, competitive in price more than Vietnamese fruits, but Chinese exotic fruits are always potentially harmful to consumers.

Market consumers have a headache to choose Vietnamese fruits while Chinese goods are flooding the market. So how to choose the pure Vietnamese fruit, not toxic when used.

Orange Orange, Orange Soup with Chinese oranges

Prior to the news that a large amount of orange in the capital of Beijing (China) was discovered toxic artificial dye for eye-catching has raised concern for Vietnamese consumers.

At this time, according to some traders, Chinese oranges are more expensive than the oranges in the country, so they do not import much. According to traders from Long Bien wholesale market (Hanoi), Canh orange, Van Giang orange, Vinh orange, Canh orange orange in Hung Yen are now priced from 20,000-25,000 VND / kg, Saigon mandarin fruit round. small, glossy shell is priced at 30,000 VND / kg; Orange oranges in Saigon have a hard shell price of 20,000 VND / kg. Particularly, Chinese oranges have yellow shells, reddish orange zone, looks very attractive but the owners are very few.

Beware of Chinese oranges staining eye-catching colors

Consumers should also keep in mind when buying oranges at specialty fruit shops. There are many kinds of yellow orange, very eye-catching, which are kept in the refrigerator, stamped in Chinese characters, but the shopkeeper insists, this orange is the orange of other countries, there are no Chinese goods.

To ensure food safety and hygiene, it is best that consumers should not choose beautiful, eye-catching oranges when buying at any market, fruit stall or hawker shop.

Cam Canh, Cam Vinh, Van Giang orange often have eye-catching colors and shapes, but consumers should choose to buy these oranges to ensure food hygiene and safety.

American and Australian grapes with Chinese grapes

Many cheap people, who bought the wrong Chinese grapes, meanwhile small businesses advertised off-shore are American grapes. Chinese grapes are selling rampant in markets and on outdoor stalls.

Chinese grapes merchants always challenge very high prices of several hundred thousand, but after a small guest bargain, customers are agreed to buy for about a hundred or a few dozen dong. If the Australian and American red grapes, the market price is according to many people selling fruits, about 200,000 VND / kg.

Guests want to distinguish, according to many people, there are only two ways to taste and see with the naked eye.

American red grapes (left) and Chinese grapes (right) have a big difference. While American grapes
The fruit is hard and dark in color, the Chinese grapes are softer, berry and pale.

When added, American grapes look very firm and have no seeds (left) while grapes
Chinese red has a lot of hollow grains and intestines, squeezing into it very shy (right).

According to Ms Nga, manager of Green Day Mart, distinguishing Chinese grapes and American grapes is not too difficult.Chinese grapes are big, round, sour and quite soft. Meanwhile, American grapes are long, oblong, sweet and crispy. When added, American grapes look very meaty and seedless, while Chinese red grapes have a lot of hollow seeds and intestines, squeezed into a very mushy.

Responding to previous press, Mr. Nguyen Van Nga - Head of Region 2 Plant Quarantine Sub-Department (Plant Protection Department) said, there is no business imported from China, on papers enterprises only imported cherry from the US, Canada . Thus, the cheap cherry on the market if imported from China, 100% is smuggled and the quality of the Chinese cherry is still not tested.

American apples with Chinese apples

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hai, Director of Kleve Trading and Investment Company Limited (directly importing and leading retail system of official fresh fruit products imported from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) - said: Consumers rely on colors and shapes of apples to distinguish. This distinction is not too difficult because American apples have their own characteristics and only certain types.

Accordingly, Chinese apples are usually round, wrapped in a porous net (note that when peeling the sponge mesh there are lots of fine white particles deposited on the pod, which is due to the evaporation of the preservative chemicals). As for New Zealand apples, the US shape is slightly square (angled), high.

American Ambrosia apples

Some apples are popular on the market like American Ambrosia apples (big, long, red, mixed with creamy yellow, sweet, crispy and very fragrant); Fuji American Apples (Red fruits with pink and red dots to dark red); American Green Apple (Green fruit, dark sour, very crispy, watery); Gala apples (Orange pink stripes on yellow background, quite crispy and sweet).

Most imported fruits have preservatives to keep for a long time during transportation. Ideally, consumers should use fruit in the water to ensure freshness; buy fruits in the right season (because off-season fruits often have to 'handle' growth and preservation stimulants more). To limit residual chemicals, consumers should soak fruits in 30-minute dilute salt water and peel, peel before peeling. Absolutely do not eat fruits with intestinal emulsion, unusual color and strange smell.

How to distinguish other fruits

Tangerines: Chinese tangerines in Vietnam are advertised as domestic mandarin. Chinese tangerines are thick, shiny and when peeled off the two ends of the box are often dry, bottles. Vietnamese mandarin is thin, often burnt.

Pomegranate: Pomegranate Vietnam small, large, thick, green skin. Chinese pomegranate is big, round, thin, white and pink.