Lychee has a short shelf life! Shou Dunci handled 5 steps, still fresh and moldy for 7 days

 8:40am, 15 July 2025

Lychees have been in full swing recently, and sweet and delicious lychees can be sold at the market. However, the weather was hot and the lychees on the market were exposed under the big sun. After buying them home, I often found that the outer shell of the lychees became sluggish and hard, and it seemed that they were already in a bad state.

If you want to eat delicious and juicy lychees, you must carefully observe them when choosing in the market. The Executive Yuan Agricultural Committee’s Food and Agriculture Education Information Integration Platform Suggestions: 󠀠 To pick new lychees, you must pay attention to the following three aspects:

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appearance: the peel looks fresh and tender, and it is recommended that the red is the better for jade bags, but not every lychee is the better.

Touch: It really needs to be full and firm to touch.

Flavor: It has a light fragrance and no strange smell.

"Non-toxic farming" website also reminds you to pay attention to whether there are "stinky stalks" caused by lychee moths. This is the condition of worm damage.

The shelf life of lychees is not long and cannot be stored for a long time under the room temperature. If you want to eat it while it is fresh, then put it in the storm and finish it that day. If you buy more, you have to deal with it first and store it in the refrigerator. Cheng Dunci, the clinical toxin department nurse of Linkou Changgeng Hospital, taught everyone how to prolong the preservation of lychees in her face. She pointed out that the following 5 steps can be cleaned and processed, and it can be stored in the refrigerator for about 1 week. Yu Dunci also posted photos of lychees that were still fresh and had no mold on their stalks after 7 days of storage, which looked the same as they had just bought them back.

5 steps to process and extend the shelf life of litchi

1: Cut the litchi into a piece of litchi, wash it 3-4 times with water, and dry it (no water dripping)

2: Take a container or fresh box and put it in the kitchen paper towel, then put it in the litchi

3: Take another kitchen paper towel and dip it in water and dry it on the litchi Put it in the refrigerator and store it

4: Take out the kitchen towels placed on the lychees every day and then moisturize and dry the lychees (the kitchen towels placed under the container do not need to be replaced)

5: Cover the kitchen towels with moisturized kitchen towels to keep them open, and do not seal the stalks with a fresh box, and avoid moldy