As the weather turned cool, the fruit stall saw the familiar jujube. Every autumn, it is a variety of dates listed on the season, jujube varieties of all kinds of varieties, should pay attention to the selection.


There are more than 700 varieties of Chinese jujube, but we can eat it at ordinary times, only a few. In recent years, the market is the most popular Shanxi jujube and Zhanhua jujube. Jujube fruit is very large, for he was red, obovate, pear shaped or oval, the maximum weight can reach more than 90 grams. It is popular mainly because of thin skinned, succulent crisp, juicy and delicious. Jujube in Shandong Zhanhua is the most famous, the fruit is spherical in shape, smaller than jujube, color is generally thick red, fleshy crisp taste, not only sweet, jujube aroma is especially heavy.


In terms of nutritional value, different kinds of jujubes have little difference in nutrition. On the one hand, jujube is rich in nutrients, especially vitamin C, which is 13 times higher than that of oranges, 60 to 80 times of apple and banana. It is known as "live vitamin C pill", and vitamin C has a good anti-cancer effect. On the other hand, jujube has a strong medicinal value, Chinese medicine that can repose, flat stomach, modern medicine has proved that jujube has a role in protecting the liver, which contains a substance called cyclic adenosine monophosphate, treatment of coronary heart disease are of great help.


However, want to eat authentic Lizao and Dongzao, can not be too impatient. In general, the authentic jujube in the mid to late 9 to early October mature, jujube mature in mid October. Some early listing dates, on the surface looked red juicy, it tastes bitter taste, but are not kept, this may be the saccharin soaked or sprayed with ripener, we should distinguish. In addition, when picking dates, it is found that the end of the jujube is perforated or with a dark brown powder, which indicates that the date has been moth eaten, so it is better to not buy it.