Generally speaking, the shelf life of unopened mooncakes is 20 to 90 days. The shelf life of mooncakes is mainly affected by the filling inside, but also by the packaging.

Fruit-filled mooncakes can probably only be kept for about a month, while sweetened sugar fillings such as bean paste and red dates are slightly longer. Among them, iced mooncakes have the shortest shelf life, just 15 to 20 days, and they need to be kept in the refrigerator for that long.

The opened mooncakes can be stored at room temperature for only a few hours, and in the refrigerator for only two more days. So it's best to eat them as soon as possible after they've been unwrapped.

Expanded Information

When buying mooncakes, remember to smell, look and taste:

1, look at the shape and color. First of all, we should look at the moon cake block type whether the size is uniform, circumference full, whether the pattern is clear, the surface has no cracks, poor quality moon cake general size is not uniform, run sugar dew filling serious; Secondly, high-quality moon cake fire color is uniform, the surface is golden yellow, the skin has egg and grease luster, and poor quality moon cake surface raw paste serious, there is a green groove, collapse the top of the phenomenon.

2, smell odor. Quality of fresh moon cakes, will emit a moon cake unique pungent flavor, due to different raw materials, the skin filling flavor is different; poor quality moon cake skin thick filling hard, white teeth marks can be seen after biting, and there is an odor.

3, personally taste. General Cantonese mooncake thin skin large filling, soft and crisp taste; Beijing-style mooncakes eat up the fluffy mouth, soft and delicate. Low-quality moon cakes are not only tough without a sense of fluffy filling, there is often a bitter taste.

People's Daily Online - Short shelf life of mooncakes does not mean no preservatives When buying mooncakes, you need to look at these three points

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