Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: ripe orange kumquats, whole and cut to show flesh and seeds.

Kumquat

金桔Jīnjú

Small citrus fruit with a thin, sweet peel and tart flesh, often oval and orange when ripe.

Type
Fruit

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Small citrus fruit with a thin, sweet peel and tart flesh, often oval and orange when ripe.

In the kitchen

Kumquat contributes sour juice to Lingshui noodle sauce with rice vinegar.

Cultivars differ in sweetness and seeds.

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这道菜里有金桔吗?

Does this dish contain Kumquat?

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