A yellow gelatinous object on a grapefruit.

There is a transparent jelly in the middle of grapefruit, which may be pectin, because grapefruit is a citrus fruit and rich in pectin. Although it usually exists in the skin, the pulp of grapefruit peel may contain a certain amount of pectin. If grapefruit meat has no obvious odor, you can safely eat it. ?

The skin color of grapefruit is uniform, yellow or orange grapefruit is ripe, and the juice is sweet. On the contrary, if the color of grapefruit peel is too yellow or too green, it may be because it has been left for too long or not ripe enough. If you want to eat it right away, choose grapefruit with orange peel. If you want to store it for a period of time, you can choose grapefruit with blue-yellow skin.

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Precautions:

1, not suitable for eating grapefruit that is too bitter.

2, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency should not be eaten. Grapefruit is cold, and people who have diarrhea due to spleen deficiency will have diarrhea after eating grapefruit, so people with deficiency cold should not eat more.

3, grapefruit should be eaten in moderation, which will not only affect liver detoxification and damage the liver, but also cause other adverse reactions and even poisoning, including dizziness, nausea, palpitations, tachycardia, fatigue, hypotension and other symptoms.

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