Pick The Freshest One!
Finnegan Flynn
| 26-04-2024
· Food Team
Oranges are a very popular fruit, and when you walk down the street, you will find both fruit stores and roadside stalls full of brightly colored and attractive oranges.
Oranges are sweet and sour, and very rich in vitamin C, so they are loved by everyone, both in terms of taste and nutrition.
Many people like to drink orange juice, but when you go to the supermarket to buy oranges back to squeeze juice, you find that the juice of the oranges you buy is very little, and the squeezed orange tastes very sour. This is because they have chosen to have some moisture shortage or placed longer oranges.
Many people do not know how to select oranges, now, here are some tips for selecting oranges:
1. Peel
Check the smoothness of the orange peel when selecting the orange. General orange skin is actually relatively rough, and even the peel is covered with a thin layer of ash, which means it is naturally ripe orange, and not artificially waxed, it is recommended to buy.
Avoid oranges with blemishes, soft spots, or wrinkled skin, as these may be signs of spoilage.
2. Look at the color
Orange growth must have enough sunshine time, and the greater the temperature difference between day and night, the more starchy sugar the orange can secrete, and the more clear and sweet the orange is.
Oranges grow in different positions on the tree and receive different hours of sunlight, and their color will vary. On the sunny side, the oranges have a darker and sweeter color due to the sunlight. The color of the oranges with short sunshine time is light, or the color is not evenly distributed, and the taste is not as good.
So when you are picking, you should pick oranges that are dark yellow and have a more uniform color.
3. Pinch
In the selection of oranges, you can pick up the orange gently pinch, and feel the hardness of orange.
Generally, sufficient water and flesh full of orange pinch will be relatively flexible.
If the pinch down is hard, it means that the oranges are not ripe and will be sour to eat. If the pinch is soft, it means that the orange has been placed for a long time, and the flesh has been soft and collapsed, so the taste of the orange is not good.
When buying oranges, you can pick up two similar oranges and weigh them, the relatively heavy oranges indicate more water, the flesh is tight, is a better orange.
Learn these tips to buy juicy and delicious oranges.