Mandarin! All of them later in this article.
Sweet tangerines, fragrance which is associated with the New Year, elevate mood and create a sense of celebration in the home and home comfort, especially when combined with the smell of fir branches.
Bright, beautiful, juicy, delicious fruit completely replace candy and other sweets, give cheerfulness and positive.
In ancient China, these fruits are valued at a premium and were considered a luxury, so they could afford only emperors - mandarins, in whose honor and named the fruit.
Tangerines: benefits and harms
Eastern healers have been known to be helpful for tangerines - they are for a long time been used to treat asthma, scurvy, obesity and other diseases.
In these solar fruits contain huge dose of vitamin C and E, and because vitamin K, reinforcing the blood vessel wall, shown for Tangerine hypertensives and cores.
In addition, overseas fruit a beneficial effect on the lungs and bronchi, improve eyesight, lower blood sugar, reduce swelling, and are an excellent remedy against parasites.
Also, tangerines and have some contraindications - for example, irritate the kidneys, mucous intestines and stomach, so in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and kidneys from better tasting mandarins refrain.
What types of mandarins are?
Mandarin varieties differ in taste (sweet or sour), the color of the skin, the presence of stones, size and ease of separation from the skins.
The sweetest fruits - Honey Robinson Temple, Dancy and Clementine (Algerian hybrid with orange), Mineola (a hybrid of tangerine and grapefruit), Israeli and Moroccan varieties.
Tangerine fruit has a slightly tart taste, Abkhazian, Turkish and Chinese differ slightly sour fruit.
Most seeds contain a variety of Turkish mandarins and Temple, while Clementine bones are completely absent.
All peel mandarins are yellow-orange color of varying degrees of brightness, in addition to honey varieties - these fruits are not only orange and yellow, but also green, as well as Filipino tangerines.
Sunburst varieties, Mineola, Robinson, Tangor are orange-red peel.
The largest mandarin - tangelos (a grapefruit hybrid) and Tangor, they resemble their size orange, the smallest - Clementine.
It is best separated from the skins of the Japanese emperor variety, the Abkhaz, Turkish, Moroccan, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin.
How to choose the mandarins, retention rules
You should buy only undamaged fruit without spots rot, and to check their degree of maturity, quite gently squeeze the peel - if squirted juice, then ripe tangerines.
When the feeling should not be too soft spots or dents, because it is a sign that the fruit is overripe and began to rot.
Recommended mandarins stored in the fruit of the refrigerator compartment, because at room temperature they rapidly deteriorate.
Winter fruit can be placed on the insulated balcony in a ventilated box with the proviso that the temperature is not lower than six degrees.
An important point - the mandarins can not be kept in a plastic bag, as they begin to rot quickly in high humidity.
What you need to know about the mandarins?
- White mesh between segments, which are often removed for cleaning fruits, rich in glycosides, strengthens the heart.
- The mandarins contains special substances - volatile, which suppress the growth of pathogenic microorganisms, relieve depression and improve mood.
- To extend the lifetime of mandarins, lubricate the skin of a vegetable oil or wax that clog pores and act as a preservative.
- Tangerines contain nitrates that "fear" ascorbic acid.
Of tangerines make salads, juices, smoothies, candied fruits, them decorate desserts and pastries.
These delicious fruits are perfectly combined with meat, fish, seafood, cereals, vegetables, nuts and cheese.
But tastes best to eat mandarin slices, enjoying an exquisite aroma, which gives the fruit essential oils contained in the peel.
It's the smell of childhood, holidays, frosty winter and fantastic hope that always come true!
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