Khaki

Species and varieties

Originating in the East in China, and national Fruit of the Japan, one also cultivates it in China, with the Vietnam, in Korea, with the Lebanon, in Israel, Italy, with the the United States, and even in the south of France and the north of Africa more precisely in Algeria in Tunisia in two places: Ain Draham, Ain Sobah. It undoubtedly has like ancestor a wild species, Diospyros roxbutghii , which pushes the North-East of India in Indo-China. There are some today more than 2800 varieties.

The two Japanese varieties most known are the hachiya and the fuyu .

The tree measures from 5 to 10 meters in height. Its sheets are simple, broad, oval and alternate, of green color reddening with the autumn. Its flowers, white, yellowish or greenish, are in bouquet on the males and recluses on the females.

This fruit is called " kharma" into Lebanese.

Description

This fruit, of the size of a tomato, is of a beautiful orange color, with the translucent skin with maturity. It contains various pigments, Carotène S, Lycopène S and Xanthine S in abundance, and is one of the fruits richest in Provitamine has, orange or red, it can contain to 8 seeds. There is ripe when he becomes marrowy, in autumn, he remains hung with the tree after the fall of the sheets. The traditional varieties, like hachiya , give fruits which must be consumed very ripe and even blets, without what they are astringent and inedible. It is, of this fact of the fruits very fragile and difficult to transport. On the contrary, of new varieties, like the variety fuyu , or the variety sharon originating in Israel, are edible even front blétissement, and can crunch itself like apples. Unfortunately for the amateurs, these fruits adapted to the modern markets are much goûteux than the fruits of the old varieties which are eaten rather with the small spoon. In certain areas like Taiwan, the khaki ones of traditional varieties are put to soak in tight earthenware jars containing of the lime liquid, which withdraws their bitterness to them and some give them crunching. The duration of steeping depends on the temperature; it is from five to seven days for a room temperature between 25 and 28°C. Occasionally, of alcohol (Gaoliang for example) is used.

The khaki one, left with the ambient air, will continue its ripening naturally. Following the example Banana, one can put it in a paper bag to accelerate his maturation, or to put it in company apples in a nonopenwork plastic case covered with a paper. Once ripe, it is possible to put it at the refrigerator where it will be preserved a few days. It supports congelation well.

Food value

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External bonds

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