Every year near the Spring Festival, cherries are on the market in large quantities. It has high face value, good taste, and the price is hanging most fruits, and it will occupy the hot search position on the Internet from time to time.
However, the relationship between cherries and cherries has puzzled many people, and they can’t figure out the difference between them. The price of cherries is more than ten times that of ordinary cherries. Is the nutrition doubled?
Don’t scratch your head. In this article, let’s take a look at the relationship between cherries and cherries, compare their nutrition, and finally give you some suggestions on buying.
Cherry and cherry
What’s the difference?
To explain this problem, we have to talk about the fruit trees of Prunus in Rosaceae. Among the fruit trees of Prunus, there are mainly four species cultivated in a large area in the world, including China cherry, European sweet cherry, European sour cherry and hairy cherry. Sweet cherry is mainly used as fresh food, China cherry and hairy cherry can be eaten fresh or processed, and sour cherry is mainly used for processing jam, preserved fruit and canned food.
(1) China cherry:Commonly known as cherry and small cherry, it has been cultivated for more than 3000 years, and is known as "the treasure in the fruit" and "the first branch of spring fruit". The fruit is small, round and thin, which is not resistant to storage and convenient to transport.
② European sweet cherry:Also known as the big cherry, this is the "cherry" in everyone’s mouth. The English name from cherry is Cherries, which is transliterated as "cherry".
The fruit is large, colorful, juicy, sweet and delicious, generally heart-shaped or wide-heart-shaped, and the skin is thick and resistant to transportation. Sweet cherry originated in Europe, and was formally cultivated in the 16th century, introduced to the United States in the early 18th century, and cultivated in China in the 1970s. At present, it is cultivated in Yantai, Shandong, Dalian, Liaoning, Beijing and Tianjin.
③ European sour cherry:The fruit is large, about 10mm~20mm in diameter, bright red to dark red in color, native to western Asia and the Black Sea coast. Because of its sour taste, it is mainly used for processing jam, preserved fruit, fruit juice, fruit wine, seasoning and other products, and is rarely eaten directly.
④ Prunus tomentosa:Commonly known as mountain cherry, it is widely distributed in North China, Northwest China and Northeast China. The taste is sour and sweet, and the fruit is small and spherical, with a diameter of about 1cm. There are two kinds of deep red and yellow. Careful observation will reveal that there are short hairs on the fruit.
On the whole, cherries are actually a kind of cherries, and the difference with China cherries is that the varieties are different. It’s just that people are used to calling imported sweet cherries "cherries" and domestic sweet cherries "big cherries".
Cherry VS cherry
Whose nutritional value is higher?
Since cherries and cherries are both cherries, what’s the difference in nutrients between them?
Cherry tastes good, looks good, and has a high price. Some people may wonder if the nutritional value of cherries will be higher if they spend a lot of money on fruits. There are even rumors that "eating cherries can supplement iron and vitamin C."
This may disappoint everyone. The high price is more nutritious. On the whole, there is little difference in nutrition between cherries and common China cherries.
Note: The nutrition data of cherries are from the nutrition database of the United States Department of Agriculture, and the nutrition data of cherries in China are from the Food Composition Table of China. * The dietary fiber of China cherry is insoluble dietary fiber.
-vitamin c:Neither cherries nor China cherries are ideal fruits for vitamin C supplementation. The vitamin C content of cherries is 7mg/100g, which is not as good as that of China cherries (10mg/100g), only 21% of that of oranges (33mg/100g), but better than that of apples (3mg/100g).
-Iron:Cherry fruit is dark red in color, which gives people a feeling of iron supplementation intuitively. But in fact, the iron contents of cherries and cherries are very low, which are 0.36mg/100g and 0.4mg/100g respectively, only about 1/10 of that of lean pork. It is dark red because it is rich in anthocyanins.
-Potassium:Although their vitamin C and iron contents are low, their potassium content is not bad, which is about 230mg per 100 grams. Taking more potassium at ordinary times can help us maintain the health of blood pressure and improve the myocardial contractility.
-Dietary fibre:Compared with China cherry, cherry has thicker skin and higher dietary fiber content of 2.1g/100g, which is beneficial to prevent constipation and protect intestinal health.
-Bioactive ingredients:Cherry contains bioactive components, which have antioxidant effect. Cherry is richer in content, and contains a large number of bioactive components such as phenols, flavonoids and anthocyanins. The phenols in pulp are epicatechin, p-coumaric acid, catechin and rutin, which are all helpful to alleviate the body’s inflammatory reaction and prevent cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
In addition, both of them have low calories and are friendly to blood sugar indexes.
-Low calories:The calories of cherries and China cherries are not high, but the calories of China cherries are relatively lower, which is 46kcal/100g, only 73% of cherries. For friends who need to lose weight, you should control the cherries a little. If you eat 20 at a time, it is almost equivalent to half a bowl of rice.
-Friendly to blood sugar:Cherry’s glycemic index GI is only 22~29, which belongs to low GI food and low GL, and belongs to the fruit with low glycemic load, even if the blood sugar is high, it can be safely eaten.
However, cherries with too dark color may have a relatively high GI, perhaps reaching 63, which belongs to the fruit with medium GI. If the cherries bought are very dark, just eat a few less.
They are all cherries.
Why are cherries so expensive?
China cherries on the market are less than 10 yuan/kg, or even lower, while the price of cherries is as high as hundreds of yuan/kg, even after the price of cherries is halved, it is also tens of yuan/kg. Why are cherries so expensive?
In fact, this is not surprising. First of all, cherries are delicate, have higher requirements for the growth environment, and are somewhat difficult to grow. They grow better in places with less rain, large temperature difference and low humidity.
The climatic conditions abroad are more suitable for planting sweet cherries than in China: the summer temperature is lower, the temperature difference between day and night is large, the rain is less and the humidity is less, which is suitable for the growth of fruit trees, with less pests and diseases, sufficient nutrient accumulation and good quality.
To put it simply, cherries are not as good as China cherries, and it takes a lot of trouble, energy and money to cultivate them.
Moreover, compared with the sweet cherries grown in China, the imported cherries are generally better in taste, bigger in size and crisp and hard in texture, so many people will buy them even if the price is high.
Secondly, after all, the imported cherries are "across the ocean", and the tolls are spent a lot. Some of them are transported by sea, while others are transported by air. The price of cherries transported by sea is cheaper than that transported by air.
Taken together, it is understandable that cherries are expensive.
How to choose cherries and cherries?
Delicious and cost-effective
1 look at the appearance
Choose a sweet cherry with big head, bright color, fullness and luster and soft touch. If it looks like it’s sobbing and it’s soft to hold, it’s basically stale. Under normal circumstances, darker colors will taste better.
2 Look at Guo Bing
First of all, you should choose the green fruit handle, which is fresher. And the shorter the stalk of sweet cherry, the bigger the fruit and the sweeter the taste.
3 players feel heavy.
The edible rate of sweet cherry is positively correlated with fructose content and glucose content. Sweet cherry with large fruit and heavy hand feel has higher edible rate and sweeter fruit.
4 Look at the grade of cherry
If there is a demand for the size of sweet cherries, you can directly ask the merchant the grade of cherries. The classification of imported cherries is generally based on the diameter of the fruit, and "ROW" and "j" are used to distinguish them. The smaller the number, the bigger the fruit. Taking "J" as the standard, the more "J", the bigger the fruit.
Meaning of letters:
G=GIANT huge
P=PREMIUM premium
S=SUPER super
X=EXTRA extra, more
J=JUMBO is larger.
L=LARGE
Although grading can’t be completely equal to whether cherries are delicious or not, the fruit size is often proportional to the development of cherries, so it is often a simple and effective way to choose according to the size. However, the classification of sweet cherries in China is different from that of imported cherries, and the weight of single fruit is often used as the classification standard in China.
If you don’t know what grade of imported cherries you bought, you can compare them with 1 yuan coins. A 1 yuan coin has a diameter of 25mm.
Cherry tastes sweet, but the price is not cheap. It is worth mentioning that potassium supplementation is ok. If you like (yǒu) and (qián), eat it. After all, it can make people feel happy, but don’t eat too much. Be careful to get fat! In addition, it is best to keep it in cold storage and clean up bad fruits in time.
