Winter, you are already a ripe orange season!

Author: Fluent

This year is the year of cherries. The cheap and delicious cherries have gradually become the first choice for home-grown fruits instead of being a good gift for visiting relatives and friends. However, in winter, there are more yellow and orange citrus fruits in fruit stores, such as oranges, tangerines, mandarins, and trifoliates. The various varieties have different flavors but are roughly similar in shape, which makes it difficult to choose.

Everyone knows that the citrus family has many relatives and a confusing genealogy, but you may not know that the world's citrus mainly originated in Asia, and China is one of the most important production areas. The famous sentence in "Yanzi Chunqiu" that "oranges grown in the south of the Huai River are oranges, and those grown in the north of the Huai River are tangerines" means that there were oranges and tangerines in the Central Plains more than 2,000 years ago. But Yanzi thought that oranges and tangerines grown in the north and south of the Huai River were the same fruit, but the difference was caused by the region. In fact, oranges and tangerines are two different fruits.

In ancient Chinese books, the names and classification of citrus fruits were first mentioned, such as tangerine, grapefruit, and trifoliate orange, followed by tangerine, and then orange. However, according to modern research, trifoliate orange should also be a type of orange, a "sour orange", while the "orange" that appears later is a "fragrant orange". In the entire citrus family genealogy, the most core may be the orange. The tangerine and grapefruit gave birth to the orange, and since then the orange has taken it as the center and has successively hybridized with other "relatives" to produce the next generation of the citrus family, such as lemons and tangerines.

In the past few years, the most popular fruit on the market was the "jelly orange", which has a thin skin and lots of juice, and can even be eaten with a spoon. This year, I bought several different citrus fruits, including the sweet and delicious Wogan, the juicy September red navel orange, the easy-to-peel and easy-to-clean Babagan, and the kumquat and tangerine, which are indispensable for the Chinese New Year. The citrus family is constantly improving as it continues to grow, benefiting the taste buds of foodies.

One of the most important quality indicators of oranges is the soluble content. This actually refers to the ratio of the flesh to the peel and fiber in the orange. The higher the soluble content, the higher the flesh content of the orange, the thinner and juicier the peel, and the more tender the taste. The second important indicator for measuring the quality of oranges is the sweet-sour ratio. Too much sweetness without acidity will lose the unique flavor of citrus.

In this issue of micro-diet therapy, the editor shares an orange black tea suitable for winter. You can also warm up a pot during the Spring Festival, from your mouth to your heart~

Orange Black Tea

Ingredients:

2 lemons, 1 large orange, some rock sugar, 2 black tea bags

practice:

Prepare oranges and lemons of equal weight

Peel and slice the orange, deseed and slice the lemon

Put the sliced ​​fruit, rock sugar and tea bags into the pot

Add enough water to cover the fruit

Bring to a boil over high heat. During the cooking process, foam will form. Do not skim it.

Turn off the heat immediately after boiling, as the lemon will become bitter if it is boiled for too long.

After taking out the tea bag and lemon slices, mash the orange.

It tastes good hot, at room temperature, or iced.

If you like apples, you can also add apple slices~