Is red kiwifruit genetically modified? Can pregnant women eat it? How to ripen it?

Actinidia chinensis is a kind of edible and medicinal fruit. Sichuan and Zhejiang are the most famous. So is it genetically modified? Can pregnant women eat it? How can it be ripe if it is not ripe when bought? Let's learn more about it.

Is red kiwifruit genetically modified?

In fact, kiwifruit in hearts is not genetically modified. Red kiwifruit is one of the varieties of kiwifruit, which is a rare and excellent variety selected from a single plant of wild kiwifruit. It belongs to the variety of red flesh kiwifruit in Chinese kiwifruit, and it is a very precocious kiwifruit variety, which has nothing to do with transgenic.

The pericarp of red kiwifruit is green-brown, the fruit is short cylindrical, the fruit shape is large and neat, the surface is hairless, the flesh is green and yellowish, the flesh is fresh and tender, moderate sour and sweet, fresh and refreshing. Because the core of the red kiwifruit has radial purplish red stripes in the cross section, which is similar to the light of the sun, it is also called "Hongyang kiwifruit".

Can pregnant women eat kiwifruit with hearts?

Pregnant women, a special group, can eat kiwifruit with a red heart. Red kiwifruit is not only nutritious, but also essential to people's life. Red kiwifruit is rich in vitamins and folic acid, which are very good for pregnant women. Red kiwifruit is rich in vitamin c, which is absolutely beneficial and harmless, and can help pregnant mothers prevent pregnancy spots during pregnancy. It can also improve the immunity of pregnant women.

Eating kiwifruit in hearts for pregnant women can stabilize mood and improve sleep quality; not only that, kiwifruit in hearts is also good for babies.

Because, red kiwifruit is rich in folic acid, which is good for the baby's development, especially brain development; therefore, pregnant mothers can eat hearts kiwifruit properly, but need to be careful not to eat too much!

Buy back the hearts of kiwifruit is not ripe, how to accelerate ripening?

1. Put ripe apples or bananas with fresh kiwifruit and cover them in a sealed bag. Leave it for 3-4 days or even a week or so, and the kiwifruit around the apple or banana will soon be ripened and softened, so that the hairy skin can be easily peeled off. Fruits such as apples or bananas release a small amount of ethylene during natural ripening. Ethylene is one of the five natural plant hormones commonly found in plants and has a ripening effect on fruits. Generally put one cut apple or banana per kilogram of kiwifruit. The more apples or bananas you load, the better the ripening effect. If the temperature is too low, the ripening time will be prolonged.

2. Practice from a professional or production point of view. That is, the use of suitable temperature and specific chemicals such as ethylene, acetylene, ethanol and so on to promote kiwifruit ripening. Usually the best ripening environment for kiwifruit is: temperature 21-25 ℃, relative humidity 90%, plenty of oxygen. If ethephon is used as ripening agent, the effective concentration of ethephon is 1000-1200ppm, soak the fresh kiwifruit with ethephon solution for about 1 minute to remove and drain, or evenly spray ethephon solution on the surface of kiwifruit to dry the liquid, and then put the kiwifruit containing ethephon into a plastic film bag without sealing. Accelerate ripening after 3-4 days and soften the kiwifruit.