How to see the good and bad moon cakes

Experts from the Product Quality Supervision Department of the AQSIQ introduced three ways to identify mooncakes for consumers as the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches.

One look at the appearance. First of all, the moon cake block size should be uniform, circumference full. Canton style moon cake surface was light brown, standing wall for the creamy yellow, egg paste coated uniformly, and the pattern is labeled with the name of the factory and filling core. Beijing-style moon cakes without patterns, product name. Such as tap red crust brownish-yellow, not bald, not raw, not paste, not run sugar does not show filling.

Two smell odor. Quality of fresh moon cakes, can emit a moon cake unique pungent flavor, due to different raw materials, skin filling flavor varies. If the use of poor-quality raw materials or storage of moon cakes for a long time, it will smell a strange odor or harla flavor.

Three tastes. General Cantonese mooncake thin skin, large filling, pure flavor, soft and crisp texture. Filling core to lotus seed paste, coconut, egg yolk, fruit and various meat fillings, sweet and salty moderation. The skin and filling of Beijing-style mooncakes are fine and complicated. Mooncake skin has oil skin, shortening skin, clarified pulp skin and Beijing wide skin four categories; filling core is divided into refining filling, fried filling, rubbing the filling of the three categories, the filling core contains more fruit, cut can be seen after the peach kernel, melon kernel, hemp kernel, cinnamon, green and red silk and a variety of fruits, red mooncake from the red mooncake also contains icing sugar, eat up the fluffy and sharp mouth, soft and delicate. Poor quality moon cakes are not only tough skin without a sense of fluffy, there is often a bitter taste.

Experts at the same time, eating moon cakes, if accompanied by tea, one can solve the greasy, digestive, two can be chewed slowly, increase the flavor to help. Generally speaking, eat savory moon cakes to drink oolong tea is good, eat sweet moon cakes to drink flower tea is good