Mooncake stuffing is a trap? Fruity mooncakes are actually "winter melon stuffing."

Original title: Mooncake stuffing is a trap? Fruity mooncakes are actually "winter melon stuffing"
is the mooncake filling a trap?
Fruity mooncakes are actually "winter melon stuffing" lotus mooncakes may also be "bean"
with the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, fruit mooncakes first on the Internet fire, but fruit mooncakes in the end there is no fruit? Is it true that all fruit mooncakes are made of winter melons? Why winter melons have become the fruit mooncake "one-of-a-world stand-in"? In this regard, the reporter went deep into the mooncake manufacturer to reveal: mooncake filling in the fruit content of more than 25% can be called fruit mooncakes, below this standard is fruit-flavored mooncakes, and the market fruit-flavored mooncakes, mostly "winter and edible flavor" made, and some lotus mooncakes may also be "bean."
market first exploration:
fruit-flavored mooncakes in fact , "winter melon stuffing"
in a comprehensive supermarket mooncake shelf area, a variety of bulk mooncakes, "fruit-flavored mooncakes sell very well." The supermarket salesman said.
most of the moon cakes sold in supermarkets, the packaging is marked with detailed filling ingredients, fruity moon cakes are almost all the main ingredients of winter melons, some packaging even clearly written "lychee-flavored winter melon mooncakes." The salesman didn't seem to notice, "We're selling brands that are better, but we don't really see the ingredients are the same."
reporters visited to see that the market with fruit-type moon cakes, almost all with winter melons as the main filling, only a cake shop sales of "purple potato strawberry flow mooncake" ingredients table is written purple potatoes, beans and fresh strawberries.
I've eaten a lot of fruity mooncakes, and it does taste the same. Ms. Liu, a citizen, said that she chose mooncakes mainly to see the price and taste, never thought that fruity mooncakes did not have fruit.
Manufacturers revealed:
choose winter melon is because of its "fiber more
not only fruit-flavored moon cakes, even cloud-legged mooncakes, five-ren mooncakes and flower mooncakes, many flavors of mooncake ingredients also have winter melon ingredients. In this reporter interviewed several manufacturers trying to uncover behind-the-scenes production.
" the reason for choosing winter slugs as the base material, mainly the high content of winter melon fiber, made out of the moon cake taste is better. Zhang Peace, head of the technical department of Chengdu Zhongguan Food Quality Management, said that the content of fruit in the filling of mooncakes is more than 25% to be called fruit mooncakes, below this standard is fruit-flavored mooncakes, and the fruit-flavored mooncakes on the market, are indeed made of "winter and edible flavor".
"considering the short shelf life of the fruit and the requirements of industrial production, fruit mooncakes are not necessarily made from fresh fruit." Zhang said, for example, when making peach mooncakes, perhaps this time the peaches have passed the season, will be directly with dried fruit to make mooncake fillings. Of course, the dried fruit must also reach 25%.
in an online store that specializes in mooncake fillings, the 5kg "fruit orange stuffing" containing the fruit is 25 yuan more expensive than the "orange filling" made from pure winter melons.
mooncake standard:
fruit mooncakes must contain 25% fruit
mooncakes are strict national standards, only fruit content of more than 25% can be called fruit mooncakes, of course, 25% of which can also be dried fruit. A mooncake factory product control director Mr. Fang introduced: "The same is the lotus moon cake, the content of lotus should be more than 60%." "Some smaller manufacturers may use legumes mixed with lotus to make lotus mooncakes for cost reasons." The price of lotus is now about 30,000 yuan a ton, the price of soybeans in the thousands to 10,000 yuan a ton. There is a lot of difference in price, and the difference in taste is also relatively large.
In addition to the above mentioned mooncake fillings, the new GB/T19855-2015 Mooncakes standard issued in 2015 also clearly stipulates that the content of nuts processed with walnuts, almonds, olives, melons and other nuts as the main raw materials, the content of nuts in the filling should not be less than 20%;
reporter found that most of the moon cakes sold in supermarkets, packaging are detailed labeled the type of ingredients and the proportion of the main ingredients, while the e-commerce platform sales of moon cakes are not.
in an e-commerce platform search keyword "fruit mooncakes", the home page pops up a sales of "high-end wide-style fruit mooncakes" shop, the product page shows the ingredients table, indeed written "high-grade fruit", but did not indicate the specific content of fruit. Another store, which sells "fruit-stuffed mini mooncakes", points in without seeing any product ingredients. The owner of the online shop told reporters: "This is indeed fruity moon cakes, now the filling basically no flesh, because it can not be preserved for too long." (Xiong Yingying, cover reporter, Huaxi Metropolis Daily)