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How to preserve pomegranate

Pomegranate preservation methods are as follows:

1, hanging hide

Fruit for hanging hide, in the harvest should be left a section of the fruit stalks, tied with a thin rope into a string, hanging in the shade of the house. Or wrapped in newspaper, plastic film, hanging in the temperature, temperature changes in the room, can be stored until around the Spring Festival. If the storage of pomegranates need to be harvested half a month in advance, overripe pomegranate hanging storage is prone to rot.

2, heap hiding

Select ventilated cool empty house, cleaned up, sprinkled with water to keep the room clean and moist, and then lay 5-6 cm thick straw on the ground (or fresh ponytail pine pine needles), according to a layer of pomegranate on a layer of pine needles all covered.

Storage period every 15-20 days to turn the pile to check once, remove the rotten fruit and replace a pine needle. Storable varieties can be stored until April or May of the following year with this stacking method. Before the fruit pile storage, with water to wash the skin, pre-cooling.

3, tanks, cans and other containers

The altar cans and other containers rinsed, and then in the bottom of a layer of wet sand containing 5% water, 5-6 cm thick, the center of the vertical Panicum handle or bamboo cylinders, in order to facilitate the exchange of air.

In the broomcorn millet handle or bamboo cylinder assembly around the pomegranate, until loaded to the mouth of the jar 5-6 centimeters away from the wet sand cover solid, altar mouth or cylinder mouth with plastic film sealing, tightening. After storage 1 month check once, if there is rotten fruit timely culling. This storage method can be stored until March or April of the following year.

4, bag storage

Pre-cooled and treated with fungicides pomegranate, into the polyethylene plastic film bags, tied bags,? Placed in a cool room. With this method of storage 140 days, pomegranate fruit is still fresh as ever. Can also be treated with fungicides pomegranate fruit, with plastic bags single-fruit packaging, this fruit in 3-4 ℃ conditions for 100 days of storage, the fruit grain freshness is good, tiger skin disease is light.

5, refrigerator cold

Refrigerator cold is the first choice of many people. Pomegranate is a warm fruit, suitable for preservation in the temperature of 2-3 degrees Celsius, family refrigerator, the freezer temperature control between 5-15 degrees Celsius, you can achieve the freshness of pomegranate requirements.