Cherries are bright red when ripe and look very tasty, with high health care value.

In the fruit family, the iron content is generally low, but cherries have a very high iron content.

Cherries contain up to 59 mg of iron per 100 grams, ranking first among fruits, and 4 to 5 times more vitamin A than grapes, apples and oranges.

In addition, cherries also contain vitamins B and C and minerals such as calcium and phosphorus.

The purchase of cherries needs to be identified by several aspects.

1. Look at the cherry color

Cherry appearance color is dark red or dark red, usually more sweet. The dark red ones are the sweetest, and the bright red ones are slightly sour.

2. look at the cherry skin

We eat fruit when the most fear is to eat worms, cherries are the same, outside the skin slightly hard for good.

Because such a cherry fruit flies can not enter, will not leave eggs, leaving room for worms to live.

3. Look at the size and shape of the cherry

In the market to select cherries often see some cherries are large, some are much smaller, should be the variety of the problem.

The cherry is large, D-shaped flat, the more concave the position of the fruit stalk the sweeter.

4. Look at the cherry fruit gloss

No matter what fruit varieties, the epidermis shiny the most healthy and best. Cherries are no exception.

5. Look at the bottom of the cherry stalk

Should pick the green color, if there is a black phenomenon, it indicates that it is no longer fresh.

6. Look at the cherry with or without wrinkles

Cherry skin surface with wrinkles indicates that there is fruit dehydration, may deteriorate or lack of water.

Although cherries are delicious but should not eat more, generally eat about 10 at a time is more appropriate.

Of course, this has a lot to do with personal constitution.

Some people do not feel well even if they eat cherries by the pound, while others may have digestive symptoms such as bloating and abdominal discomfort.

There are many people who do not like to buy from the market and want to go to the cherry orchard to buy and experience the pleasure of picking.

During the picking process one needs to learn to identify whether the cherries are ripe or not, mainly through the following steps.

1. The mature cherry color is usually brighter, red even, purple shiny, black glossy good.

Generally cherries are mostly red, less purple and black, as long as the ripe cherries, no matter what variety, coloring is uniform and looks naturally shiny.

So the cherries are ripe.

2. Ripe size

An important factor in determining the ripeness of cherries is the size of the fruit.

The size of cherries of general varieties can generally reach 50~60 grams, and the largest cherry varieties to more than 80 grams.

Although there is no particular standard for cherry size, ripe cherries are not too small.

3. Ripe hardness

Another criterion for determining whether a cherry is ripe is the hardness of the fruit.

The immature cherry fruit is very hard and basically there is no juice flow when squeezed by hand, while the mature cherry fruit becomes soft and the juice becomes very rich.

And the juice flow is obviously felt when gently pressed by hand.