【推荐1】We can see lots of different kinds of food with different colors on our dining tables. Doctors and our parents always ask us to eat lots of green vegetables, because they are healthy for us. It’s also good for us to have food in other colors. For example (例如), we can have red food like tomatoes and carrots, yellow food like bananas, brown food like chocolate and orange food like oranges. Most people like to eat red food.

But what about blue food?

A food company (公司) has a test. The workers put (放) the color blue in its candies (糖果). Children like the color blue very much, so would they like the blue candies? The test finds that children don’t like them at all. They still like red, green, brown, yellow and orange candies.

How many kinds of blue fruits or vegetables do you know? You can see a little blue food in your life. People may think blue is not a food color and that it’s not safe (安全的) or healthy to eat the food that is blue. People find many blue plants are poisonous, and animals are afraid to eat them. This is why people don’t often use blue when they make drinks, cakes and other food.

【推荐2】Many Chinese people have recently been surprised to find that many types of food were imported from another country and they are actually grown or produced in northeast China. The northeastern area of the country has been getting lots of attention this winter. Many visitors come to its tourist attractions in search of ice and snow, and praise the hospitality (热情好客) of its people.

A group of eleven kindergarten children from Guangxi began to visit the northeastern province on December 31, 2023. The people of Heilongjiang took good care of the children. To show its thanks to them, Nanning sent 189 tons of mandarin oranges to Harbin. Heilongjiang then returned the gesture and sent 100,000 boxes of cranberries (蔓越莓) to Guangxi. The cranberries surprised a lot of Chinese people, even many from Heilongjiang Province. They didn’t realize that the fruit was grown there.

Cranberries were introduced from North America in 2014. Fuyuan City in Heilongjiang Province grows 280 hectares (公顷) of cranberries. It is one of the largest cranberry growing bases in Asia. Other types of berries grown in northeast China include blueberries and raspberries. Many people have also discovered that some precious foods, such as Wagyu beef, black truffles and caviar, are also produced in northeast China.

【推荐3】Wechat(微信)is becoming more and more popular, and many families have a family group on Wechat. What do you think of family groups?