It’s the season when large grapes such as Kyoho and Pione are lined up in stores. Grapes that can be eaten with their skins are good, but many people find that grapes such as Kyoho grapes, which have thicker skins and astringent taste, taste better when eaten peeled.
However, when you try to peel it, it often breaks in the middle and you can’t peel it properly.
Weather News conducted a survey asking, “How do you peel grapes?” 74% said they “peeled from the stem side,” 6% said they “peeled from the other side,” and 20% said “other.” I found out that most people peel the skin from the stem side.
In fact, it seems that the ease of peeling varies greatly depending on which part of the skin you start from when peeling. We asked Hiromi Goto of hiro.smile.farm, a fruit farm in Tendo City, Yamagata Prefecture, about the best way to peel large grapes.
Grape skins are difficult to peel
Depending on the type of grape, some are eaten with the skin peeled, while others are eaten with the skin on.
“Our most popular grapes, Shine Muscat and Nagano Purple, are representative of grapes that can be eaten with their skins, but grapes such as Kyoho and Pione are often eaten with their skins peeled. Many people are concerned about the texture and bitterness.
However, peeling the skin is quite a laborious task. Because the skin and pulp are stuck together by fibers, large grapes cannot be peeled as easily as small grapes such as Delaware, even if you try to push the pulp out with your fingers.” (Mr. Goto)
Tricks to cleanly peel the skin
Apparently there is a trick to peeling large grapes neatly.
“Grapes have fibers that carry nutrients from the stem running along the skin toward the butt.When you try to peel the grape from the stem, these fibers hold the skin tightly against the pulp. The closer you go to your butt, the less you can turn it.
Therefore, if you peel from the buttocks, the fibers will not get in the way and you will be able to peel smoothly and comfortably. If the skin on the butt is difficult to pick up, it’s a good idea to make a slit in the butt with a knife, then insert your nails into the cut and peel it off.
Another method is to use toothpicks. Insert a toothpick shallowly into the hole in the stem, and then make a cut all the way around the skin. All you have to do is pinch the skin and peel it off. It peels neatly, so it looks great when used in sweets, etc.” (Mr. Goto)
Store well and enjoy until the end.
Even if you can’t eat it all at once, there are ways to store it well.
“In order to preserve grapes, it is important not to remove the bloom, a white powder produced by grapes to protect the grapes, so wrap each bunch in newspaper or the like and place them in the vegetable drawer of the refrigerator without washing them. please.
If you want to remove the fruit from the bunch and store it, use scissors to cut 2 to 3 mm above the stem, arrange them with the stem facing up, wrap them in kitchen paper, put them in a storage container or zippered storage bag, and store them in the vegetable drawer of your refrigerator. It will last a long time.” (Mr. Goto)
Grapes contain plenty of vitamins. Let’s peel the skin well and replenish the nutrition deliciously.
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2023-10-15 20:04:00
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