How to clean a pomelo: tips

The time of deficit and lack of money in Russia has sunk into oblivion. Now, if you wish, you can buy everything in stores - the counters are filled with a wide variety of goods. In the vegetable departments there are many fruits for every taste, some of which are completely unfamiliar, so some buyers do not pay attention to them. But in vain! Let's say an exotic pomelo fruit is just a storehouse of vitamins and metals. Only many do not know how to peel this overseas fruit - people are repelled by its large size and thick dense peel. Therefore, few people know the taste of this exotic citrus. And few can choose a fruit of proper ripeness, pleasing taste buds.

The right fetus

In order for the pleasure of eating the broomstick to be complete, you need to choose the right - ripe fruit. How to do it:

1. Ripe fruit smells delicious, even from afar. In case there is no smell coming from the broomstick - no need to buy it.
2. A good pomelo, of proper quality, is painted in a uniform yellow color. There may be greenish blotches, but no more. Big spots or, God forbid - stripes - indicate that the fruit has stale or has not been properly stored.
3. When buying, you need to push the top of the fetus. If the peel easily succumbed to pressure, and after dents were left - it means that the fruit is already rotting.
4. The peel should have the same density in all places. If it turns out that in some places there are thickenings, then the conclusion is simple - the fruit was kept in inappropriate conditions.

Acquired fruit should not be stored for a long time. Especially in the refrigerator. It must be cleaned there if he has been lying in the kitchen for a couple of days and has begun to deteriorate.

Quick and proper cleaning of the pomelo

There are two cleaning methods - vertical and spiral.

Vertical way

1. The tops of the fetus are cut off. On the skin, longitudinal sections are made.
2. Then the peel is removed from above. In a ripe fetus, it will easily descend. The flesh of the pomelo is covered on top with a white skin - usually it is removed along with the peel.

Spiral way
Using this method, it is necessary to incise the peel in a spiral form - from the top to the bottom. Then the skin peels from below and comes off. From a mature fruit, the skin will descend without problems.

Specialists together with experienced housewives advise using deep dishes for cleaning. Then from this juicy fruit not a single drop of aromatic juice will be lost.

Fruit without a peel is similar to an orange or grapefruit - the same slices. If the film covering them has not been removed along with the skin, then you should not try to remove it with the nails. It is easier to cut from the top or bottom at the junction of the slices, and remove. Otherwise, the fruit will be very bitter. When eating fruit, it is recommended that the film and seeds be sent to the trash.

When eating a pomelo, you don’t need to pour sugar on it or pour honey - the fruit is extremely sweet without them. If bitterness or sourness is felt, then the fruit is spoiled, it is worth throwing it away.

The pulp of citrus is pleasant not only in the form of a dessert. Many connoisseurs like to add fruit to different salads (although they may not be fruit at all), make sauces from the pulp, prepare dressings for meat, fish or poultry dishes. The main thing is to use as few spices as possible so that they do not interrupt the smell of the pomelo.

Fruit properties

Unlike other citrus fruits, the pomelo has many important and useful substances: B vitamins, a lot of metals - from potassium to iron, ascorbic acid, the glycoside and pectin needed by the body, carbohydrates that add a unique aroma to essential oils. All of these substances help:

1. Strengthen the immune system and contribute to the prevention of vitamin deficiency.
2. Keep skin youthful.
3. They help blood circulate better in the arteries, which contributes to better heart function, improves digestion and strengthens vision.
4. Helps to avoid headaches, prevents the increase in pressure, helps with anemia.
5. It allows you to reduce weight and is included in many diets.
6. Recommended for diabetics, as it removes sugar.
7. Helps fight pneumonia and bronchitis, bronchial asthma, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, relieves fatigue and improves the process of falling asleep.
8. Normalizes brain activity.
9. Eaten after the first breakfast pomelo removes toxins from the body.

Pomelo - a fruit similar to which it is impossible to find. There are many substances that benefit the body.

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