Lychees

SCMRubix

SCMRubix

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A quick question to you fruit lovers.

I work in a Supermarket in the fruit and veg department, and today we received a crate of lychees.
There was a bit of discussion amongst staff to whether or not lychees need to be refrigerated.

As far as I'm aware, they change in colour but not taste. Not sure if refrigerating will prolong shelf life or not.



TL;DR Do you refrigerate lychees?

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Lychees are delicious but make a sticky mess when I eat them.

PhillyDee said:
What are they? How on earth would you 'eat' one?
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This puzzled me too. When the Cinese lad in our office brought them in I was about to stick the whole thing in my mouth. Kindly explained that you peel the skin from the outside and eat the 'meat' in the middle. There is a little stone/seed in the centre too.
 
They look a little bit like a small pickled onion once peeled. Not a fan of them myself however I know that they can be quite popular with desserts
 
When they come out of the fridge they taste better and are more refreshing. I rarely eat them but when I do it has to be fresh. I don't like the canned stuffed.
 
I grew up eating these in the summer. Really love them, but there is another kind, smaller, brown shell, and literally translated as dragon's eye fruit that i love more.

Something to consider. The Chinese have a thing when describing foods. Think of it as Yin/Yang, and in the case of food, the kind that soothes the body (cool), and the opposite adds a kind of fiery energy to the body...It is hard to translate!.

Things like cucumber is consider cool, water melons etc

Things like crisps, biscuits, and generally deep fried stuff are fiery kind. My parents always say if i eat too much food in this category it gives me sore throats.

The interesting thing is that the chinese consider lychees to be in the latter with the crisps and stuff, even though it is a fruit.
 
Last year I went to the local Aldi, amongst other things I don't usually buy I picked up a tin of Lychees. There was a little old Chinese woman that saw them and asked me to hold her place in the checkout line while she got some.

She explained, where she was born, only the rich had tinned lychees as it meant someone else had peeled and pitted them :)

I do prefer them fresh and I wouldn't refrigerate them.
 
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