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When the steep autumn wind made the earth shrink, the orange-red fruit at the end of the branch swayed heavily, as if beckoning and shouting, "I'm going to be ripe, pick me up soon."
 
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, citrus fruits such as mandarin oranges, rose grapefruits, sugar oranges, and navel oranges, like runners in a relay race, mature one by one and ran to the table for appearance. In this year's most beautiful orange-yellow orange-green, the various sweet and sour flavors are coveted. Among them, grapefruit is sought after by many lovers and is regarded as the holy product for weight loss.
 
Grapefruit is like a dazzling ruby. Fresh grapefruit is not only relatively low in calories, but the flesh can also increase satiety. After the grapefruit is smashed into juice, add green tea or Yakult, and then pair with a plum. The multi-layered sweet and sour taste is stacked on top of each other, which makes people appetite. After entering the throat, its mysterious flavor is even more refreshing. In addition, grapefruit extracts are often used for skin conditioning, cleansing fragrance, and many uses.

Grapefruit originated in Barbados, an island country on the Caribbean Sea. It is a hybrid of Jamaican orange and Indonesian pomelo, and is therefore called the "forbidden fruit." According to the records of barnyard history, it was bred by "Captain Shaddock" who brought Indonesian pomelo to Jamaica and naturally hybridized with sweet orange in a natural environment. In Taiwan, the main producing area of ​​grapefruit is Chiayi County, which accounts for half of Taiwan's grapefruit production, while Yunlin County and Hualien County have abundant grapefruit production. The soil with good grapefruit and good drainage requires plenty of sunlight and the peasants to take care of it, so as to prevent scale insects, aphids and other insect pests from making the peasants painstakingly.
 
When receiving medicines in hospitals or pharmacies, doctors or pharmacists will from time to time advise certain medicines not to be taken with grapefruit. This is because many fruits and their juices interact with various medicines and cause adverse effects. Pomelo is one of them, and the research on the interaction between food and medicine caused by it is also done the most. Many cholesterol-lowering drugs, sleeping pills, and antihypertensive drugs cannot be consumed with grapefruit, and must be separated by more than eight hours. As long as you pay attention to this, you can enjoy the sweet and sour taste of grapefruit.