When buying fruit, wipe the surface of the fruit with a paper towel. If you can wipe off a faint red layer, it may be industrial wax. You'd better not buy this kind of fruit.

There are three kinds of wax on the peel: one is the fruit wax on the surface of the fruit itself; Second, the edible wax artificially added in some high-grade fruits is harmless to the body; Thirdly, illegal hawkers wax fruits with industrial wax, and the mercury and lead contained in them may penetrate into the pulp through the peel, and the fruits waxed with inferior industrial wax are harmful to health.

It is understood that China's "Hygienic Standard for the Use of Food Additives" allows waxing the surface of fresh fruits, but the specified additives must be used and added in moderation. Common edible wax is a kind of food additive, which will not cause harm to human body if used reasonably. If you eat too much, it may cause too much burden to detoxify and decompose organs such as the liver, which will affect your health.

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A good way to choose oranges

Look at the color: the color is green, the orange is sour, and if you like sour, choose green; Oranges are the best, with moderate sweetness and sourness; Don't choose too dark a color, because it will rot.

Look at the shape-:flat is better than thin.

Look at the orange peel: the skin is rough, with large particles, thick skin and not sweet scales; The epidermis is smooth and generally sweet.

Look at the elasticity: soft and tough, oranges are delicious, too hard and too soft, either undercooked or overcooked ~

Look at gender: oranges are also divided into male and female, the female oranges are generally sweet, and the male oranges taste very ordinary. How to divide the male and female? Look at the navel of the orange. Only one small orange is a male orange and one small orange is a female orange.

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