"Noble in Fruit" cherries are at least seventy or eighty per catty … Why is it so expensive? Isn’t a relatively cheap cherry not fragrant?
Compared with cherries, cherries do have many advantages. For example, the taste of cherry is sweet and sour, while cherries are pure sweet; For another example, the flesh of cherries is tight and super satisfying to bite, but cherries are thin and soft, and their appearance is not as attractive as cherries.
▲ Attractive cherries, big, crisp and sweet. Graph/network
Aside from the taste and mouthfeel, the exotic name of cherries and its big and red appearance make you feel particularly attractive when you check out and give gifts. However, only you know the feeling of bleeding in your heart.
Cherries are so expensive, so I can’t eat cherries?
01 Why aren’t cherries called big cherries?
Let’s talk about whether cherries and cherries are the same thing.
Taxonomically speaking, cherries and cherries belong to.Sakura(Source: Flora of China). Sakura? Yes, they are all.The fruit of cherry trees.Cherry trees are cherry trees that can enjoy cherry blossoms in spring, but many tree species that enjoy flowers have been cultivated to produce edible fruits.
This classification is actually not unusual, because from the appearance, cherries seem to be large cherries. Then why don’t cherries be called big cherries?
In the official name of cherry, there is indeed the word cherry, and its species name is European sweet cherry.As the name implies, it is not native to China. Besides sweet cherries, there are sour cherries in Europe. Because sour cherries are too sour, few people like to eat them, so they are mostly used to make jam or dessert, such as cherry pie.
▲ Cherry pie. Graph/network
When the European sweet cherry was introduced to China for the first time, in order to distinguish it from the cherry native to China, the American Cherry Association directly transliterated the European sweet cherry into the name Cherry with its English name "cherries".
Cherry, like cherries, is just a customary name.There are two kinds of cherries growing in China: China cherry and Prunus tomentosa.In fact, similar "small" cherries are also distributed abroad, and some people eat them. However, if they are shipped to China, they are uncompetitive in taste, difficult to store and keep fresh, and they have to pay expensive transportation fees. No one will do such a loss-making business.
▲ Shandong Wulian’s stupid cherry is a very sweet one among domestic cherries. Figure/"Scenery China Zhi Wu Lian"
So,Cherry and cherry are actually different species, but in essence, they both belong to cherry.Of course, this cherry is a plant classification, not what we usually mean by cherry.
Cherry PK cherries are delicious and expensive.
After talking about the things on the noodles, let’s take a look at Lier.Is the nutrition of cherries really worthy of its price?
▲ Comparison of nutritional components between cherries and cherries. Cartography/Zhang Yuchen
From the data point of view, the nutrient content of cherries and cherries is almost the same.In some indicators, such as the contents of vitamin A, vitamin E and vitamin B3 (nicotinic acid), cherries are even better than cherries.
On the other hand, cherries only make people who lose weight "smell the color change"Carbohydrate is better than others.The so-called carbohydrates in fruit ingredients are mainly dietary fiber and sugar. Although the dietary fiber of cherries is as much as 2.1 grams, more than 90% of the remaining 13.9 grams of carbon water is sugar (12.8 grams). No wonder the calories of cherries are higher than those of cherries.
▲ Bright red cherries. Figure/vision china
It should be pointed out that the sugar content of cherries shown here is higher than that of cherries, which is not directly related to the fact that cherries are sweeter than cherries, because cherries are sour in addition to sweetness. The sweetness of cherries is only 16 or 7, and it can reach 23 or 24, which is already the top. Now some cherry varieties cultivated in China have a sweetness of 29.9, which is one head higher than cherries, but they still taste so sour and sweet.
Although cherries and cherries are sweet, they are suitable for diabetics, probably because anthocyanins in them inhibit the activity of digestive enzymes, and their pectin content is also high, which can delay the digestion and absorption of sugar.
In fact, even if you know that cheaper cherries are even better in nutritional value than cherries, you also know that cherries are high in calories and sugar, and they are easier to get fat after eating, but you can’t help but reach out to cherries in the end. After all, it is really delicious!
▲ Everything, a twist, a bite, a few dollars is gone. Graph/network
After the internal competition, let’s see what special advantages the cherry family has compared with other fruits.
Compared with apples and pears which are relatively close to the people in the market, the cherry family has completely crushed its rivals in almost every data, especially in vitamin A and potassium, and it can even lead its rivals several times.
▲ Just as it is obviously a cherry but changed its name to cherries as a brand, Apple also made up the "false propaganda" of "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" in order to promote itself. In fact, the nutrition of apples is not as high as I thought. Figure /rawpixel.com
However, when the fruit orange, which is also close to the people, came on stage, the cherry family was defeated. The content of vitamin A and vitamin C in oranges is 2.3 times and 3.5 times that of cherries, and various trace elements are not equal to those in the cherry family, but the potassium content of oranges is slightly half that of cherries (128 mg per 100 g versus 232 mg per 100 g).
▲ No fruit can "unify the world", and it is best to eat some of each. Figure /rawpixel.com
Although the potassium content of the cherry family is high, it is not impossible to be replaced by other people-friendly fruits. For example, the potassium content of bananas is higher than that of the cherry family (256 mg per 100 grams). Does this mean that if I spend a few dollars to buy an orange and bananas, I can beat the cherries bought for dozens of dollars?
That’s true. It’s a pity that your taste buds are not dry! Tomatoes are nutritious, but I don’t know how expensive they are. Price and nutrition are not related in themselves.
03 Why is "cherry freedom" so difficult?
Why are cherries more expensive than cherries? Middlemen earn the difference!
How much is the Chilean cherries we usually eat in Chile? Last year, someone posted a picture on the internet, which said 1000 pesos a kilogram, which is 8.6 yuan! Are you surprised?
▲ cherries are being sold at stalls in Chile. Graph/network
Whether these news are true or not, in short, they are enough to illustrate that the processing fee and freight of cherries are expensive. Of course, cherries themselves are not cheap, otherwise, when people make up stories for Washington, why should they let him cut down cherry trees? Because cherry trees are precious!
▲ Washington has not cut down cherry trees, but it is true that Europeans and Americans like cherries. The picture shows "Cherry Time" painted by Italian painter Salvador Postiglione. Figure /Wikipedia
Cherry’s body is good, and its compact flesh makes it able to withstand the long-distance transportation. But after all, the origin of cherries in China is far away from Wan Li, so the exported fruits will quickly enter the cold chain after picking to keep fresh, which is why cherries in our supermarket are full, pleasant, bright and attractive.
▲ Delicious cherries can make all kinds of food. Figure /rawpixel.com
Compared with cherries, the soft and tender China cherries are much more fragile, and will rot with a little bump. Before the Tang Dynasty, cherries were too difficult to transport, so they could only be "tasted under the tree" and never popularized. In the Tang Dynasty, because the emperors liked to eat cherries, this kind of fruit, which never came out of the world, became a LV—— in fruit-eating cherries became a symbol of status.
In the Tang dynasty, cherries were planted in Chang’ an, but the yield was not high, precisely because things are rare and expensive.The palace ministers are all proud of receiving the cherry from the emperor.Bai Juyi, for example, wrote a poem entitled "Grateful for the cherry plaything with the old people in Yang Er Sheren Pavilion". The name of this poem is so long, as if he was afraid that others would not know that it was a royal gift.
After the Tang Dynasty, the existence of cherries remained high. Su Shi, a well-known foodie, wrote that "Mai Lao Cherry is ripe", Xin Qiji wrote that "bitter bamboo shoots and cherries are just in time", and Lu You wrote that "cherry cheese is tasted new", which makes people drool. However, no matter how good the cherry is, if you don’t live near the place of origin, or if you are a dignitary, I’m afraid you won’t enjoy it. Today, after the maturity of cold chain logistics, it is possible to consume cherries on a large scale.
▲ "Cherry Oriole Map", Song, anonymous.
Cherries are delicious, and we can cultivate them ourselves. Since 1980s, China has introduced many sweet cherry varieties from abroad for hybridization and cultivation, and cultivated famous varieties such as Meizao, Hongguang, Huangmi, Brooks and so on, all of which are big and sweet domestic cherries.
▲ Domestic big cherry with yellow honey. Graph/network
From May to June every year, domestic cherries begin to be listed in large quantities. Because of the low transportation cost, the price is relatively close to the people. These domestic cherries are an excellent opportunity for everyone to realize "freedom of cherries"!
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