Are the bright red and big strawberries on the market with hormones and pigments?

Are strawberries fragrant and sweet with pigments and hormones? Although I am not engaged in strawberry cultivation, I might as well talk about my views according to my biological knowledge. First of all, I do not agree with the problem of pigment, nor do I think that there are such strawberries, and it is totally unnecessary. Secondly, the hormone problem, the use of plant hormones in agricultural production is very common, and the reasonable use of hormones will only make strawberries fragrant, sweet and good quality, and it is impossible to say that it is harmful to the human body. Let's talk about the above two questions. I hope it will be helpful to you.

Pigment problem

Some people see the red strawberries on the market are very attractive, they think that red is pigment-dyed. While some people are washing strawberries, they find that the water used to wash strawberries has become water-red, thinking that it may be dyed with pigment. In fact, this kind of dyed strawberries should not exist, we have bought strawberries should be more clear, strawberries storage time is very short, but also very prone to corruption. The slightest bump will break. And if you choose the so-called pigment soaking after picking strawberries, not to mention the increase in cost and manpower, strawberries will also be easy to rot because of bumps and difficult to sell. It may be questioned whether businesses will inject pigment into strawberries in the future. Similarly, this practice is really very unwise. People can try filling strawberries with syringes at home. Some people have tried it, but this cannot be injected at all, and strawberries will rot as soon as they are damaged. There will be no doubt about this.

For those who plant melons and fruits, it should be clear that during the fruit-setting period, watering should be paid great attention to. Once the fruit is knocked, the fruit will fall. This situation is even more serious during strawberry planting. After setting the fruit, protect it very carefully.

When we buy and wash strawberries, we will find the water red in the basin. In fact, this is really a very normal phenomenon. The pigment in strawberries is water-soluble, so it is inevitable that there will be pits during cleaning, and the pigment in the cells will be released, and the water in the basin will turn red.

According to the above analysis, I think that the so-called strawberry dyeing is only a subjective conjecture, but there is no real evidence, at least so far I have not heard of any good dye that can make strawberry color so bright. And crucially, if dyed, the overall color of strawberries should be uniform, while the color of the strawberries we buy is the darkest at the top. This kind of change in depth is by no means possible for dyeing.

Hormone problem

Plant hormones have been widely used in agricultural production, such as cytokinin, gibberellin, ethylene and so on. In plants, ethylene is a hormone that can accelerate fruit ripening. Now many fruits will be picked in advance because of tolerance to transportation after ripening. After being transported to the destination, ethylene will be selected for ripening and sold. For example, bananas, tomatoes, mangoes and so on, these are all very common applications. Do you feel any discomfort after eating so many bananas?

Plant hormones are completely different from animal hormones, and even if the human body eats these hormones, it is not harmful to the human body, which has been mentioned by more than one expert. The growth and development of plants are also controlled by these hormones. For example, spraying cytokinin after setting strawberry fruit helps to increase the size of strawberry fruit. In fact, even without spraying cytokinin, the fruit expansion is promoted by cytokinin. It is just that people can make the fruit set more neatly through the regulation of plant auxin, which contributes to the expansion of the fruit.

Based on the above analysis, Scientific Xingnong believes that whether it is pigment staining or hormone problems, it is not a problem. For strawberries, perhaps strawberries have a high content of agricultural residues, and it is understandable to pay attention to agricultural residues, while the so-called strawberry staining. Personally, I don't quite agree.

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