Everyone should have heard the proverb, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Adults also used this sentence to educate children to eat apples when they were young.
Apples are really the same. We go from snacks to big fruits. According to the existing historical records, apple cultivation has a history of more than 5000 years. Wild apples in Central Asia are considered to be the important birthplace of apples we eat now.
China is the main country of apple production. Look at the distribution map of apple growth below. As can be seen from the map, the producing areas of apples in China are concentrated in the western and northern regions.
Among many apple producing areas in China, the following four places are the most famous. If you want to buy crisp and sweet apples, look for these four producing areas. Next, Lazy Meow will tell you one by one where the four major producing areas are and what are the characteristics of the apples produced. Let's have a look.
1, Aksu Apple (Xinjiang)
There is a folk song circulating in Xinjiang. Everyone praises the grapes in Turpan, melons in Hami and apples in Aksu. Aksu apples are also the iconic products of chinese national geography.
Aksu, located in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an important post station on the ancient Silk Road.
This place belongs to the continental climate of warm temperate zone, with little rainfall and dry climate, but abundant water flow, relatively rich water resources and long sunshine time, which provide good conditions for the growth of apples.
The apples produced in this place have delicate and juicy flesh, crisp and sweet taste and are very delicious. Among them, Aksu rock sugar apples should be mentioned in particular.
This kind of apple has to go through the first frost three times during its growth, and the sugar in the stone has accumulated into a transparent shape, forming beautiful rock candy hearts in the flesh, which is crisp and sweet to eat, and is also called "fruit queen" in Xinjiang.
2. Yantai Apple (Shandong)
Yantai, located in Shandong Province, China, is a very important port city in the Bohai Rim region and the earliest place to grow apples in China. Apple planting has a long history.
Yantai Apple won the famous trademark of 20 1 1 China, which is also the product of chinese national geography.
The Yantai apples we are talking about now mainly refer to apples planted in Laiyang, Zhaoyuan, Penglai and Qixia, among which Qixia apples are the most famous.
The apples here are bright in color, big in size, just right in sweetness and taste, thin and juicy in skin, and taste like a "cool" word.
3. Tianshui Apple (Gansu)
Tianshui, located in Gansu Province, China, is a place with a profound cultural background with a history of more than 8,000 years of civilization, and is also the birthplace of Fu, the head of the company.
In Tianshui, Gansu, there is a world-famous specialty fruit, which is praised by many foodies as the three largest apples in the world, alongside American snake fruit and Japanese Fuji apple. It is the famous flower cow apple.
Huaniu Apple is a trademark product of chinese national geography, and it is also the first apple brand in China to obtain a formal trademark in the international market.
It can be said that we eat flowers, cows and apples, not only apples, but also a brand.
The appearance of Huaniu apple is very different from other apples, but it is very similar to American snake fruit. It tastes crisp and the juice tastes a little milky.
4. Luochuan Apple (Shaanxi)
Luochuan is located in Yan 'an City, Shaanxi Province, China, on the Loess Plateau. This place has high altitude, large temperature difference between day and night, and abundant sunshine, which is very suitable for the growth of apples and the birthplace of apples in Shaanxi.
Apples produced in Luochuan are relatively smaller than those in other places. They taste 8 points sweet and 2 points sour, with moderate sweetness and sourness, and are more resistant to storage than many other apples.
Therefore, the Luochuan apples we bought in many places were not picked and delivered now, but picked last year. If you like a little sweet and sour apples, Luochuan apples are a good choice.
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Fruits produced in different places, even the same variety, will have certain differences in taste and taste.
Taking apples as an example, altitude, sunshine and temperature difference are the three key factors that determine their taste. For example, the higher the altitude, the greater the temperature difference, the more sunshine during the day, and the more fructose gathered in the apple, the sweeter it tastes.
Next time you go to the supermarket to buy apples, if you don't know which one to choose, you might as well look for apples from the above four producing areas, namely Aksu apples in Xinjiang, Yantai apples in Shandong, Huaniu apples in Tianshui, Gansu and Luochuan apples in Shaanxi.
Because these producing areas are very suitable for the growth of apples, they are also very important apple producing areas in China. Of course, there are many varieties and origins of apples, which are delicious and famous. Today, I will only introduce some of them to you.