How to best preserve durian flesh? A few practical methods

Durian is called the “king of fruits”. It not only contains a large amount of dietary fiber, but also various vitamins, minerals and amino acids. Eating it can provide an ideal nourishing effect. However, after buying durian, it quickly spoils and is inconvenient to store, which gives people a headache. Below, let us take a look at how to best preserve durian flesh!

How to best preserve durian?

1. Natural storage: After buying durian, if it has not been opened, you can directly place the durian in a cool, ventilated place. Before storing, it is best to wrap its outer layer in a cardboard box. This storage method can extend the durian's storage time by three to four days.

2. Refrigerated storage: If the durian cannot be finished, you can take out the flesh and put it in a fresh-keeping box. After sealing it, place the fresh-keeping box in the refrigerator's refrigerated compartment for storage. This can ensure that the durian will not spoil for about one week.

3. Frozen storage: After taking out the durian flesh, wrap it in plastic wrap, then store it in the refrigerator's freezer compartment. This allows the durian to be stored for several months without spoiling. When eating, take it out and let it thaw before eating. It is cool and refreshing, especially tempting.

How do you choose a good durian?

1. Pinch the spikes: Use your hand to pinch the tips of adjacent spikes and gently squeeze them inward. If they can easily “come closer” to each other, it proves that the durian is softer and has better ripeness. If it feels very firm and cannot be pinched at all, it proves that the durian is relatively unripe.

2. Look at the size: Choosing a durian is similar in principle to choosing a watermelon. Generally speaking, a larger durian will have better ripeness. From the color of the outer shell, a good ripe durian is relatively translucent yellow. If there is more green, it proves it is not ripe enough.

3. Degree of splitting: When choosing a durian, choose one that has just begun to split open, because the exposed flesh is easily contaminated and also easily spoils. If you choose a relatively ripe durian that has just opened, it is best to enjoy it as soon as you get home, otherwise it easily spoils.

4. Smell the odor: Unripe durian has a “grassy smell”. Ripe durian has a rich, fragrant odor that makes people's mouths water. People who often eat it know it as soon as they smell it. However, if you smell an alcohol-like odor from the durian, do not buy it.

5. Look at the appearance: If the durian mostly has gently sloping, conical spikes with a larger base, it proves that the durian has more flesh and better ripeness. Conversely, if the spikes are mostly sharp and thin in shape, it proves that the fruit is not very ripe.

6. Shake it: Carefully place your fingers respectively in the depressions between the spikes on both sides of the durian and gently lift it up. After holding it steady, gently shake it with your hand. If you feel a slight bumping sensation inside or hear a slight sound, it proves that the flesh is ripe and has separated from the shell.

What are the taboos of eating durian?

1. Alcohol and durian are both considered “hot” foods. If people with diabetes eat both together, it can cause blood vessel blockage, and in severe cases can lead to blood vessel rupture and stroke. Normally healthy people should also avoid eating both at the same time. There have even been multiple cases of death from eating durian together with baijiu.

2. Durian cannot be eaten together with warm-natured foods, such as beef, mutton, dog meat, etc., as well as seafood, because these foods all belong to the category of dry-heat foods. Eating them together can cause internal heat and inflammation, or other diseases due to internal heat, or trigger previous illnesses.

3. Friends with skin diseases, laryngitis, asthma, and bronchitis should also not eat durian. Eating it will worsen the condition.

4. People with a hot-gas constitution, sore throat and cough, cold, yin-deficiency constitution, or sensitive trachea will have their condition worsen after eating durian. It is not beneficial to the body, and it is not suitable to eat.

5. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should not eat durian. It can cause blood vessel blockage, and in severe cases can lead to blood vessel rupture and stroke. It is not suitable to eat.

6. Kidney disease patients and heart disease patients should also not eat durian, because durian contains relatively high potassium.

7. Obese people should eat less, because durian contains relatively high calories and sugar.

8. Kidney disease patients and heart disease patients should also not eat durian, because durian contains relatively high potassium.