This fruit that ripens in June was once ignored by everyone; now it sells for 15 yuan per jin, and you eat only the peel, not the flesh.

Every year after June arrives, farmer friends are incredibly busy. First comes the Grain in Ear solar term, and farmers who work the fields must hurry to harvest their crops, then plant the next season's crops. For fruit growers, June is also a very busy season. Quite a few fruits ripen in June, such as jackfruit, banana, lychee, sugar apple, dragon fruit, wampee, mangosteen and so on, and surely many of these are favorites for a lot of people. However, the June-ripening fruit I am about to introduce to you next is a bit special.

In the afternoon, I saw a farmer friend in the village knocking fruit off a tree with a bamboo pole. I watched, very curious: this fruit looks quite like a pomegranate, so how is it growing on such a tall tree? Only after this farmer friend explained did I learn that this fruit is called "rose apple", a common fruit in the south, especially in Guangdong and Hainan, where it is most common. But in the past, this fruit was actually not very well regarded by farmer friends, and many farmer friends did not like it either.

According to the farmer friend, in the past many people actually did not much like the rose apple, mainly because the rose apple is hollow and has no flesh, so they felt it had little edible value. Thus, in the past, rose apples basically just rotted on the tree or rotted on the ground with nobody wanting them.

But nowadays, people have discovered that the rose apple is not without edible value; on the contrary, its edible value is quite high. Although it is hollow and has no flesh, the peel can be eaten, and the taste is not bad.

It is understood that the peel of the rose apple is quite rich in nutritional value. Every 100 grams of the edible portion of rose apple contains 1.9 grams of dietary fiber, 2.8 milligrams of calcium, 0.2 milligrams of iron, 75.2 milligrams of potassium and various other nutrients. In addition, the rose apple also has a unique aroma, and this unique aroma means that besides being eaten directly, the rose apple can also be made with other ingredients into fruit paste, preserved fruit or jam, while its juice, after fermentation, can also be brewed into a premium beverage.

This has therefore also driven up the price of the rose apple today. It is no longer like before, when it would rot on the tree with nobody wanting it. According to this farmer friend who was knocking down rose apples, rose apples sold to the north can now fetch about 15 yuan per jin, which counts as a relatively expensive fruit.

In fact, besides its edible value, the rose apple also has very good medicinal value. According to the "Chinese Materia Medica", the root bark and fruit of the rose apple can both be used as medicine, and when used medicinally they have the effects of cooling the blood and astringing, and can be used to treat symptoms such as diarrhea, dysentery and bleeding from cuts.

Friends, have you ever eaten this "rose apple" that you eat only for its peel and not its flesh? You are welcome to leave a message and share your thoughts!