{"id":5868,"date":"2025-03-24T00:58:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T15:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:14:30","slug":"loquat","status":"publish","type":"vegtable","link":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/vegtable\/loquat\/","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of loquat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loquat is held to moisten the Lung and ease a dry throat. It is also said to settle how the stomach works and to help with nausea and a poor appetite. In season in early summer, it eases the dry throat the heat brings and encourages digestion, which makes it worth bringing into daily care.<\/p>\n

\"Loquat\"<\/figure>\n

When loquats are in season, the varieties, and how to choose<\/h2>\n

If you want to bring in what loquats do, deliciously, knowing the season, the varieties and how to choose makes them easier to use. Their appeal is soft flesh, a refined sweet-sourness and a vivid orange, and they announce early summer.<\/p>\n

In season in early summer, with Nagasaki and Chiba the main producing areas<\/h3>\n

Loquats are in season in early summer, roughly May to June, with greenhouse fruit appearing a little earlier. They do not keep and do not ripen after picking, so the window when they are at their best is short: a strongly seasonal fruit. The main producing areas are Nagasaki and Chiba, with Chiba's known as Boshu loquats. They are also grown in Kagoshima, Kagawa and Wakayama, each area with its own varieties, and loved as the fruit of early summer.<\/p>\n

Mogi, Tanaka and other varieties<\/h3>\n

Loquats come in varieties differing in size and taste, with characteristics varying by growing area too.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Variety<\/th>\nWhat stands out<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mogi<\/td>\nSmall with largish stones. Strongly sweet, and much grown in Nagasaki<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tanaka<\/td>\nLarge with thick flesh. Sweet with a good acidity, the leading Boshu loquat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nagasaki Wase and Natsutayori<\/td>\nVarieties that come in early. Soft-fleshed and juicy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n

Mogi to taste the sweetness as it is, Tanaka for something with body: choose by taste and by use. In every variety, fruit close to fully ripe is richer in sweetness and aroma than early-picked.<\/p>\n

How to choose them and how to handle the stone<\/h3>\n

When choosing good loquats, these points make it easier to tell.<\/p>\n