Recently, Duc Trong district police (Lam Dong province) informed that, on July 22, the unit arrested a large number of strawberries without vouchers, unknown origin and no real quarantine certificate. Regulators, right at Lien Khuong Airport. 

Through the inspection process, the police discovered in the cars a total of more than 600 boxes of fresh strawberries. On the foam boxes are Chinese words are packed carefully, inside each package is beautifully packed strawberries. The driver claimed to be just a charterer.

According to the initial suspicion, these strawberries were imported by traders in Da Lat to fake the origin of strawberry in Da Lat, in order to profit from tourists. Da Lat is currently in the rainy season so the output of strawberries is declining, meanwhile, this summer vacation, tourism demand has skyrocketed.

In order to help consumers and tourists not mistakenly buy Chinese strawberries labeled as Da Lat strawberries, Lam Dong Department of Plant Protection and Plant Protection has statistically identified special identities to distinguish these two types of strawberries. .  

Specifically, Dalat strawberries have an uneven fruit shape, moderate fruit size, not too big, soft, not smooth. Meanwhile, Chinese strawberries have high uniformity, big fruits, hard, smooth fruits.

In terms of color, Dalat strawberries have an uneven red color, dark on the body, the stem is slightly white. Chinese strawberries are dark red from head to stem, very nice looking.

Consumers can observe the color, fruiting body, the flesh inside ... to distinguish Da Lat strawberries and Chinese strawberries. Photo: branch of Plantation and Plant Protection Department of Lam Dong Province. 

Part fruit stations, strawberry Dalat has a short thin, part covered on a strawberry, light blue. These characteristics, consumers will not notice when buying Chinese strawberries, because the fruit of the strawberry is thick, very smooth, covering more than a third of the strawberry and has a dark green color like the leaves.

With the meat inside, Dalat strawberries will be light red, white intertwined. Chinese strawberries have a darker red flesh color, not white interwoven.

In terms of taste, Chinese strawberries have no fragrance, when eaten, they have a bad feeling and have no sour taste, while Vietnamese strawberries have a specific aroma, when eaten soft, with a sour taste.

In addition, consumers have another way to identify that Chinese strawberries can be left for 7 to 10 days in an environment of 25-32 degrees Celsius but still fresh, while Da Lat strawberries only leave a maximum of 2. the day is withered or stubborn.

Source PLO - HA QUYEN