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Pummelo
The pummelo is also known as the pomelo, the shaddock, the country of French as chadec, the Malayan limau besar, the Bali lemon, and the Chinese grapefruit have they characteristic of being the largest citrus fruit. The pummelo is, essentially, a kindler, gentler, giant cousin of the grapefruit with great sweet taste. It is related in flavor but milder, and is actually supposed to be a forebear of the modern grapefruit. The pommelo is currenty native to Malaysia and Southern Asia. |
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Pummelo Fruit- The pummelo is one of the exotic fruit with large citrus fruit that is an forebear of the common grapefruit. It is mosty located in Asia and also in certain eastern countries including like as China, Japan, India, Fiji, Malaysia, and Thailand. But it also now grown in United states of California and Florida Even though it is most commonly known under the name of pummelo, depending on the region where it is grown, it is also called the pamplemousse, pomelo, Bali lemon, Limau besar, and shaddock.
Then it is produced from the Piummelo trees. In Asia , uses the Flowers to make perfumes. This fruit is sweeter in taste than the grapefruit.
Taste-Sweetie' or 'Golden Sweetie' in Israel, has a flesh notably sweeter than 'Marsh Seedless' and ripens atleast three weeks in warm areasand the fruit taste rather than astringent. The pummelo fruit is associated to the grapefruit, it has a taste that is tangy. Inside the pommelo fruit is a pink flesh present. The pummelos are mosty decidedly lacking in strong grapefruit tastes. The Pummelo fruits having a large size and thick outer skin. It is really taste like a chocolate pudding.
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The pummelo tree is fairly tall with a height ranging from 16 to 50, particularly for a citrus tree. The leaves are fibrous and dark green and leaves having an average of 5 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. The trees produce large numbers of fragrant white flowers. The pummelo requires significant heat to sweeten, and so does best in a tropical or subtropical climate. It favors sandy, well-drained soil and dislikes having wet roots. the Hirado, a favorite one of Japanese variety; and the Kao Pan fruit varieties for Thailand. The fruit of the pummelo is circle to slightly pear shaped structures.
It may grow to a diameter of 12 inches or more and attain a weight of 20 to 22 pounds. The easy-to-peel greenish yellow peel is thick and contains a thick layer of spongy pith. The flesh has divided into about sixteen to eighteen segments, varies from a pale straw color to pink to deep rose. Some pummelos fruit contain an surplus of seeds and others are nearly seedless. |
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Pummelo Varieties |
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Chandler |
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Chandler Pummelo tree is produces a seedless fruits if it planted in isolation. The Chandler Pummelo tree is measured the giant of the citrus world that it is grown as a evergreen fruit and it is energetic, the open growth of the fruit habits to 15 to 20 feet tall and wide.
The Chandler Pummelo produces an exotic fruits flavored in the adjust.The pink squash of the Chandler pummelo variety is sweet and juicy, and it is very easily segmented for eating fresh, unlike a grapefruit.
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Hirado Buntan |
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Hirado Buntan was introduced in 1960’s as pummelo variety. It is one of the most commerical fruit in Japanese fruits.It is pale yellow in colour, much like a grapefruit in size and shape,but its yellow-pink, bluish coloured flesh is having a less juicy and firmer. It has numerous segments, as well as seeds, and a tough strong wall that gives it an interesting reliability.
To obtain the maximum in sweetness, a pommelo should ripen at room temperature for ten to fifteen days until it has a heavy aroma and a deep yellow color.
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Liang Ping Yau |
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Liang Ping Yau is a very large pommelo fruit located in Chinese and highly prized in Southeast Asia, where it is considered the best citrus for desserts and other culinary purposes. It is shaped approximately like a pyramid shape, with a very thick, pale yellow rind that protects its red, juicy sweet squash. The squash is comprise up to fourteen segments, with many seeds.
It is unequal segments create a mosaic pattern when see in a cross-section. This pleasant flavoured fruit is often eaten with a honey immerse in the Asian tradition.
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Pandan Wangi |
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Pandan Wangi is an excellent variety of pummelo fruit from Java's Bativia district. It have a thick rind with a pale yellow-green shade and a meaty pith in colour. The blush red squash has up to eighteen segments create a oval shape and as many seeds.
The fruit yields very little juice of a compound flavour but it is agreeable and sweet with a hint of lime.
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Pink pummelo |
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Pink Pummelo is a member of the pigemnts of Thai group of fruit.It is a huge varitety of pummelo fruit. Even though it is sometimes sour, it be able to have some of the best flavour of all the California pomelos varieties. The rind is medium thick and slightly stony and looks much like a pink grapefruit.
It have a bright yellow skin, a juicy squash, and many seeds but it is less acidic than a grapefruit.
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Red Shaddock |
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Red Shaddock was merely developed recently in Africa at Tambuti Estate in Swaziland. It have an strange flavour that it is low in acid exit a sugary sweet aftertaste. Red Shaddock squash is very similar to that of the Star Ruby, hard and intensely red, but have many seeds with irregular shape of the fruit.
The peel is a grapefruit-yellow colour and is smooth. It is ideal for cooking into various recipes.
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Nutrition Facts of Pummelo
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- Scientists have found that pomelo is bracing and lift up out spirit, presentation and stamina.
- For who wants are trying to get a slim pomelo is a blessing because it satisfies hunger and speeds up the break down of proteins and fats.
- It helps a beside of atherosclerosis and regulates blood pressure.
- There is special pomelo fruit based diet to treat asthma.
- Pomelo is a dietary fruit its caloric value is 30-35 kcal per 100g.
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Medicinal Uses of Pummelo
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The fresh juicy squash vesicles are eaten fresh out of the hand or in the fruit salad and sometimes the juice is extracted for beverage.
The white inner part of the peel can be candied after the outer peel which that containing oil glands have been removed.
In Vietnam, the aromatic flowers are used in making perfumes.
The wood is used for tool handles and firewood while leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds are sometime used as herbal medicine to treat cough, fevers and gastric disorders.
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Nutrition Value and Calories of Pummelo
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Fruit comparison tables. Overview of vitamin and mineral content including nutrition charts of the pommelo.
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| Nutritive value per 100 g of pommelo |
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Nutritive value |
| Fat |
0.00 g |
| Protein |
0.8 g |
| Vitamin A |
8.0 IU |
Vitamin C |
61.0 mg |
| Potassium |
215.99 mg |
| Sodium |
1.0 mg |
| Carbohydrates |
9.6 g |
| Fiber |
1.0 g |
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Pummelo Calories
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Calories in Pummelo, raw
- Total calories in Pummelo, raw - 38 kcal
- Calories from Carbohydrates - 35.12 kcal
- Calories from Fat - 0.33 kcal
- Calories from Protein - 2.55 kcal
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Pummelo Recipes
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Pummelo and Avocado Salad |
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Ingredients:
- 1 large (about 10 oz.) firm-ripe avocado, peeled, pitted, and cut into lengthwise slices
- 1 small (about 1 1/2 lb.) pummelo, peeled and segmented (see pictures below)
- 1 lime, cut into wedges
- Chili salt
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Method:
On 4 salad or dinner plates, arrange equal portions of the avocado and pummelo sections. Garnish each serving with lime wedges.To eat, squeeze lime over fruit and sprinkle to taste with chili salt. Makes 4 servings.
Per serving without chili salt: 131 cal; 2 g protein; 8.1 g fat; 16 g carbo.; 6.7 mg sodium; 0 mg chol. |
Spicy Pummelo Salad
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Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup unsweetened desiccated coconut
- 1 skinless boneless chicken breast (1/2 lb)
- 1 pummelo or 2 grapefruit
- 2 teaspoons dried shrimp
- 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 2 tablespoons Asian fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 cup canned unsweetened coconut cream or unsweetened coconut milk (not cream of coconut) at room temperature, stirred well
- 2 to 4 fresh red Thai chiles (to taste, each 1 1/2 to 2 inches), minced
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 jumbo shrimp in shell (10 to 12 per lb)
- 1/4 cup Asian rice flour (not sweet)
- About 4 cups vegetable oil for frying
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Directions:
Put the oven frame in middle position and preheat the oven at 350°F.
Shake over the coconut in 1 layer in a shallow baking pan and toast, stirring once or twice, until evenly golden, 8 to 10 minutes.
In the meantime, cover chicken with the cold water in a 2-quart pan and boil over reasonable heat until it cooked through, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove chicken, discarding cooking liquid, and, At what time cool enough to handle, shred into 1/2-inch-thick pieces in a large bowl.
Cut skin, including most of the white pith, from pummelo with a sharp knife. Using your hands, split pummelo from center of one end, like an orange. Pull off interior pith and remove the segments 1 at a time, then remove segment membranes of the fruit and any small seeds, separating squash. Add pummelo pound to chicken.
Grind is dried to shrimp into small pieces in chopper, about 20 seconds. Heat a dry 8-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, then cook dried shrimp, shaking skillet, until pale golden, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer to a small bowl.
Beat together lime juice, fish paste, sugar, coconut cream, toasted coconut, chiles, and 1/8 teaspoon salt in a small bowl, then mix into pummelo mixture. Halve extra-large shrimp lengthwise with a sharp large knife, leaving bullets in place. Season with remaining 1/8 teaspoon salt and search in rice flour, shaking off excess.
Serve pummelo salad topped with fried extra-large shrimp and sprinkled with toasted dried shrimp. |
How to Eat Pummelo
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We similar to eat a pummelo fruit by first peeling and sectioning it, and then eating the sections. Always purchase firm and heavy pummelo fruit, as lighter weight ones are usually dry.
Wash and strip the pummelo. As you do this, you will notice its delightful fragrance.
Split it two halves. The two of us usually share a pummelo fruit.
This is a closer look of the halves of the pummelo with its bright red color.
Place the half o halves on a plate, and separate it into individual sections. The pummelo sections can also be joint with other fruit to make a fruit plate. Eat and enjoy. |
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