Ume (梅) is a Japanese apricot. Japanese often eat its pickled form (Umeboshi-梅干) or drink its juice or alcohol (Ume-shu梅酒).
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Umeboshi (pickled Japanese apricot) is a kind of pickled food and very famous all over the world. It's one of the Japanese traditional foods and it has been popular in Japan. It is red, round, and a little bit seamed, and its taste is very sour. Japanese people usually eat it with rice, resulting in what looks like the national flag of Japan, with the circular bright red center on a white field. The Japanese also put it into rice balls. It is said that umeboshi is good for health, and sometimes umeboshi is used as a cold remedy. Surprisingly, a pickled apricot it never rots, so you can eat those which were made 100 years ago.
Ume juice tastes sweet and acidic. It's a very fresh drink, so it tastes more delicious during the summertime. While people of all ages can enjoy ume juice, ume-shu is only for adults. It's so smooth that even people who don't normally like alcohol sometimes drink this. The appeal to people who like ume-shu lies in both its smell and its taste. Many people say that after just one taste they have gotten hooked on it.
It should be kept in a cool place during the summertime.Umeboshi (梅干)
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How to make umeboshi
Ume juice and ume-shu (梅酒)
We can also enjoy drinking the juice of the ume by preserving the fruits with sugar. Ingredients
How to make ume juice and ume-shu
You can drink the liquid by diluting with twice the water.