How much is cantaloupe now? is 6.8 per jin normal? Why is cantaloupe called cantaloupe?

   original title: * * Hami melon and fruit "ride" special plane sails for the first time in Guangdong

In the early morning of September 13, workers unloaded melons and fruits from a special plane at Shenzhen Baoan International Airport.

   three Rural Express report: on the same day, 5 tons of Hami ancient dates and 10 tons of Gonggua from Hami arrived at Shenzhen Airport on their maiden flight to Guangdong, where consumers could taste fresh melons and fruits as soon as possible to celebrate the "sweet" Mid-Autumn Festival.

In July this year, Hami City for the first time cooperated with China Postal Airlines and * * Post Company to open a special shipping plane for agricultural and sideline products, thus building a three-dimensional marketing model of "online + offline, air + ground", opening up a "green channel in the air" for the transportation and marketing of agricultural and sideline products, and opening up a new way to enhance the brand value of fresh agricultural products and increase the income of farmers. The current price is relatively expensive, because it has just been on the market, the price is generally more than 5 yuan per jin.

Hami melon (scientific name: Cucumis melo var. Saccharinus), is a transformation of melon. Also known as snow melon, Gonggua, is a kind of excellent melon varieties, fruit round or oval, produced in Xinjiang. Sweet taste, large fruit, to Hami produced the most famous, so it is called Hami melon. Because it tastes sweet and belongs to a kind of honeydew melon, cantaloupe is often miswritten as "cantaloupe".

The Uyghur language "Kuhong" comes from the Turkic language "Cabo", which means "melon". Cantaloupe has the laudatory name of "king of melons", and its sugar content is about 15%. Different shapes, unique flavor, some with creamy flavor, some with lemon flavor, but all taste as sweet as honey, strange fragrance, reputation at home and abroad. Among many cantaloupe varieties, "Red Heart Crisp" and "Golden Dragon" have the best quality. Cantaloupe is not only delicious, but also rich in nutrition and high medicinal value. There are more than 180 varieties and types of cantaloupe, including early maturing summer melon and late maturing wax gourd. Wax gourd is resistant to storage and can be stored until next spring, but the taste is still fresh.

Posted by    Xinhua News Agency (photo by Li Hua)

Workers scan cantaloupes arriving in Shenzhen in the early morning of September 13.

In the early morning of September 13, staff hauled melon and fruit goods at Shenzhen Baoan International Airport.