According to the Consumption List of Local Lantern Festival in 20 19, the popular categories of glutinous rice balls that people like to eat are: fermented glutinous rice, black sesame, red beans and osmanthus. Among them, the order of black sesame stuffing in Wuhan accounts for 4 1.5% of the total order of Yuanxiao.

Nationwide, each city has its own characteristics about which stuffing to choose for glutinous rice balls. Such as brown sugar, rose, fresh meat and milk, all account for a certain proportion; Corn, radish, bean noodles, ginger juice, mung beans and coconut milk were rated as super unpopular varieties.

However, Wuhan people show a rare tradition in choosing the taste of Yuanxiao. The number of orders for sweet-scented osmanthus fillings ranked second accounted for 33.2% of the total orders for Yuanxiao, and the number of red bean fillings ranked third accounted for 8.9%, which means that the top three fillings together covered 83.6% of the Yuanxiao rivers and lakes in Wuhan.

Some people like to eat sweet food, while others want to taste salty food. According to the Consumption List of Local Lantern Festival in 20 19, the salty glutinous rice balls with fresh meat, corn and radish as fillings have a very fierce growth momentum in 20 19. Among them, the sales of fresh meat dumplings in Jinhua area accounted for as high as 38%. In 20 19, the sales proportion of fresh meat yuanxiao in Wuhan also increased to 5.9%, which was higher than that in the whole country.

In practice, in 20 19, fried dumplings were born and became a bright color in the "Jianghu" of take-away Yuanxiao.