Fengdu Sanyuan Red Heart Pomelo

Fengdu Sanyuan Red Heart Pomelo

　　Fengdu Sanyuan Red Heart Pomelo

　　Fengdu Red Heart Pomelo, originally from Sanyuan Town in Fengdu County, Chongqing, has been carefully selected and cultivated over many years. The pomelo is large, weighing up to 1,500 grams per fruit, with an edible rate as high as 55.5%. It has thin skin, evenly sized and neatly arranged segments that are easy to separate, few seeds, and flesh that is a pleasing pinkish-red color, juicy, tender, and nearly seedless with a pleasant balance of sweet and sour. It has a soluble solids content of 11.2%, with 9.37 grams of sugar per 100 milliliters of juice, offering a rich flavor and abundant nutritional elements. In 2001, the production area of Red Heart Pomelo had reached 36,000 mu, with an annual output of nearly 3,000 tons. In 1994, it was honored as an "Excellent Fruit" in Sichuan Province, won the "Silver Award at the Second China Agricultural Expo" in 1995, the "Gold Award in the National Pomelo Quality Competition" and the title of "One of Chongqing’s Top Ten Pomelos" in 1998, and in 2001, received two Gold Cup Awards at the 7th National Pomelo Research and Production Collaboration Conference for “Quality Pomelo” and “Quality Commercial Processing of Pomelo.”