How to reproduce grapefruit

Grapefruit is most common in the south, especially the grapefruit produced in Pinghe County, Zhangzhou, Fujian. Its fruit fresh sweet and sour delicious, refreshing, full of praise, so how to reproduce grapefruit?

How to reproduce grapefruit

Grapefruit can be planted with seeds or grafted. When cutting, choose semi-lignified sturdy branches as cuttings, cut off the lower leaves after cutting, and leave two or three leaves in the upper part. It can be grafted in the rainy season.

II. Nutritional value of pomelo

Grapefruit has high nutritional value and is rich in protein, organic acids, vitamins and essential elements such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium and so on.

Modern medicine believes that grapefruit contains a physiologically active substance called naringin, which can reduce blood viscosity and reduce the formation of blood clots. Therefore, eating grapefruit can promote wound healing and has a better preventive effect on septicaemia, cerebral thrombosis, stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases, especially for middle-aged and elderly people.

Fresh pomelo meat is an ideal food for patients with diabetes because it contains ingredients similar to insulin. It can promote appetite, treat indigestion and other diseases, regulate qi and disperse knots. Eating more grapefruit also helps prevent bowel and stomach cancer. It is easy to get angry in winter. Grapefruit can reduce anger and inhibit oral ulcers. The content of vitamin C in grapefruit is much higher than that of other fruits, with 57 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 grams of grapefruit meat, 10 times that of pears. Grapefruit can also detoxify alcohol and eliminate the bad smell in the mouth after drinking.

Third, how to choose grapefruit

1. Smell

When choosing grapefruit, you can first hear whether the grapefruit has aroma, because the ripe grapefruit has a rich fragrance.

two。 Knock

You can also press and knock on the outer skin of the fruit to see if the pomelo skin is sunken. Sunken inelastic grapefruit is of poor quality and is not recommended to buy.

3. Form

It is best to choose the standard type with the width under the tip of the grapefruit, and there will be a golden circle under the width of the good grapefruit, the skin must be thin and smooth, the color is light green or yellowish, and it looks better when it is soft and juicy.

Pomelo peel and pomelo flowers can be used as medicine, which is known as "canned natural fruit". Among them, grapefruit peel has the functions of eating, expelling peculiar smell, preventing mosquitoes and so on.