How to pick mangosteen

I believe everyone has seen and eaten mangosteen. Mangosteen is a fruit with high nutritional value. Like durian, it is known as the "Queen of Fruits". Mangosteen is rich in protein and has a good conditioning effect on malnutrition, physical weakness, and anorexia. Mangosteen has a long growth period and is a veritable green fruit. How to choose mangosteen and what kind of mangosteen is the most delicious?

Many friends worry about how to choose mangosteen when buying it. Choosing mangosteen requires skills. Friends who don’t know how to choose mangosteen are particularly likely to choose "dead bamboo", so you must pay attention to the selection of mangosteen. The following will teach you how to choose mangosteen, let’s take a look.

Mangosteen has very high requirements for its living environment and can only survive under high temperatures. The flesh of mangosteen is snow-white, tender and soft. Under the protection of the thick shell, it looks like white and crystal cloves of garlic. The mangosteen flesh tastes sweet and fragrant, slightly sour, smooth and delicious, and is truly a treasure among fruits. Mangosteen tastes sweet, but its smell is very light.

1. When buying mangosteen, be sure to choose fresh mangosteen with green stems and soft fruit, otherwise you will buy "dead bamboo"

2. Press the surface of the fruit lightly with your fingers. If the surface is very hard and dry, and you cannot make it dent even with your fingers, and the color of the stalks is dark, this indicates that the mangosteen is too old and is not suitable for eating. The ones on the right in the picture below are too old and have broken.

3. You can look at the petals under the fruit. The number of petals indicates the number of lobes of flesh inside the fruit.

4. How to eat fresh mangosteen? Because it is very soft, you can break it apart with your hands and eat it. If the mangosteen you buy is as hard as a rock and you want to chop it with a knife, then it is definitely not fresh.

Mangosteen is native to Southeast Asia. It can be said to be not only a plant mangosteen but also a fruit mangosteen. Fresh mangosteen is dark purple in color, soft and elastic when pinched. On the contrary, it is immature or rotten mangosteen. Therefore, when buying mangosteen, you must look carefully to avoid the trouble caused by rotten mangosteen. Mangosteen is a good product for health preservation, and it is also a good product for female friends to beautify and nourish their skin.