With the gradual lifting of domestic prevention measures against covid in China and the higher chances of getting the common cold or flu in winter, the number of people with symptoms such as fever, cold, and sore throat has gradually increased in various parts of the country. Traditionally, how to maintain health is often related to food (not referring to alternative medicines) in China, and fruit is an important part of it. In addition to stocking up on medicines, many people have been stocking up on various fruits in the past two weeks to improve immunity and help fight the virus.
The demand and price of several kinds of fruits have doubled in a short period of time, among which the price of lemons, pears, kumquats, etc. are particularly high. As some medical professionals mentioned earlier, if you have no symptoms or only some mild symptoms after getting COVID, you can consider putting lemon slices in your drinking water, stewing pears with rock sugar, or drinking water with kumquats juice, etc. This is good for your body. These fruits are easy to buy every day, and the prices are relatively affordable.
Since then, the demand and price of these fruits have skyrocketed. Even other fruits have begun to attract attention. According to merchants who plant and sell lemons and pears, the price and demand of yellow lemons have doubled in the past two weeks, and lemons are very popular in some wholesale markets, and the number of merchants participating in lemon sales has also increased. The demand for pears increased as well, and the price increased from 40% to nearly 200% depending on the variety. In recent days, the prices have stabilized and have fallen back. In some regions of China, due to the associated traditional eating habits, the demand for canned yellow peaches has also soared. Some fruit categories, such as mangoes, which are considered to cause "burning" and sore throat in traditional Chinese habits, saw a sharp decline in sales.
Since fruits are rich in vitamin C, they have always been regarded as beneficial to health. During this period, many fruit merchants launched a fruit list, ranking according to the vitamin C content of common fruits to stimulate sales. The rankings are not the same, but the top of most of the rankings is fresh jujube. The ranking of kiwifruit is also high. In these rankings, citrus and apples, which are considered to be rich in vitamin C, are only in the middle, while lemon, the most popular fruit in sales, ranks relatively low. In addition, many merchants who only work on a certain type of fruit product have also included the vitamin C content of the fruit in their recent WeChat promotions.