What do people like to eat in Mid-Autumn Festival? What else do you like to do?

The Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, and various performances in the circle of friends are half show love and half sorrow for the moon. There are also several strong WeChat merchants selling moon cakes in the middle.

What we are going to discuss today is not the evil dog cruelty party, nor the sentimental "poets", but the most diligent Wechat business-Mid-Autumn Festival in October, when mooncakes are sold in July. What rhythm is this? I was so scared that Bian Xiao immediately went back to check the yellow calendar to see if this year's Mid-Autumn Festival was in July.

Wechat business, who is so serious, is really scary. What is even more frightening is the terrible "private poisonous moon cakes" and "fake moon cakes".

One of the most unacceptable is the "renovation of moon cakes". "Renovation of moon cakes" refers to the reprocessing of aged moon cake fillings and selling them as new moon cakes.

Similar things happened many years ago and are still happening today.

Toxic moon cake

Recently, a video of making moon cakes was circulated on the Internet. In a small workshop hidden in a residential area in Dongguan, salted egg yolk was soaked in a black rusty washbasin, and flies flew around the smelly egg yolk.

When the picture cuts to another corner, you can clearly see a large number of expired moon cakes piled up together, some of which have long hair and black hair. I can't imagine how such rubbish is processed into moon cakes that people eat in their mouths.

In order to cover up the bad taste, ordinary merchants usually use a lot of flavors. Although there is no obvious difference between the flavor of moon cakes and other moon cakes, eating moon cakes made in this way is different from eating garbage.

People who eat this kind of moon cakes are prone to food poisoning reactions such as vomiting and diarrhea, and Aspergillus flavus in expired food is a carcinogen.

Fake moon cake

The so-called fake moon cakes are imitations of online celebrity moon cakes in the market to attract customers at low prices.

It is understood that the prices of these mooncakes are generally tens to hundreds cheaper than those of authentic official website. Sellers usually call it "purchasing" or "obtaining goods through other special channels", so the price is cheap. Some of them even directly admit that they are "high imitation". These fake moon cakes wholesale by some WeChat merchants may be only around 85 yuan, but the price is more than one box in 200 yuan. In fact, the cost price of these moon cakes is even lower.

There is also a well-known secret in the industry-because the taste of wax gourd is very similar to that of fruit, it has become our favorite fruit moon cake by mashing wax gourd and adding some fruit essence and pigment.

Think about it, when we thought we were eating noble pineapples, but in fact we were chewing melon at fifty cents a catty, were we more angry than finding that the old lady had no wife in her cake, no fish in her shredded pork with fish sauce and no money in her purse?

Of course, the so-called fake moon cakes and poisonous moon cakes are not unique to the industry in WeChat business. Even in shopping malls, there will be the problem of buying fakes. All we can do is polish our eyes.

How to distinguish

Bian Xiao has compiled several purchase methods for everyone. Remember not to be cheated next time:

First, look at the source. Buy moon cakes from regular manufacturers and shops. It is best to buy products produced by large enterprises or brand enterprises and look for QS logo.

Second, look at the label. Moon cakes should be marked with product name, net content, ingredient list, production date, shelf life, factory name, site and product implementation standard number.

Third, look at the appearance. Moon cakes should be even in size and full within a week. The surface of Cantonese-style moon cake is light brown, the vertical wall is milky yellow, the egg paste is evenly spread, and the factory name and stuffing are marked on the pattern.

Fourth, smell the smell. Fresh moon cakes can give off the unique tangy smell of moon cakes. Mooncakes made of inferior raw materials or stored for a long time will smell peculiar smell or odor.

Fifth, the taste. Generally, Cantonese-style moon cakes are thin and stuffed, with pure taste, soft and refreshing taste and moderate sweetness and saltiness. Poor quality moon cakes are not only hard, but also bitter.