Abstract: What are the green silk and red silk in moon cakes made of? Is the green silk delicious? Can I eat green silk? Moon cakes are a very common traditional food and a special food in China. When we eat moon cakes, we can find that some moon cakes contain green and red silk. What is this? What is the green red silk in the moon cake? Can I eat?

What is the green silk in the moon cake made of?

Adding green and red silk to moon cakes is to add color and taste. Green and red silk, also called red and green silk, or red and green silk/green silk, is a traditional dessert raw material in China, and its main function is beautiful color matching. Green red silk is made of hard plant materials such as orange peel, papaya and so on, washed and cut into diced, shredded and strips, dyed with red or green food pigment, pickled with sugar and dried in the sun.

Green and red silk has bright color, sweet taste and certain toughness. Commonly used in Chinese cakes, moon cakes, eight-treasure rice and so on.

Can the green and red silk in the moon cake be eaten?

Both green silk and red silk in moon cakes can be eaten. The raw materials of green red silk are carrots, orange peel, papaya, radish and some pigments, which are of course edible. However, this kind of moon cake has high pigment content, so it is not suitable to eat more, so as not to cause harm to the body.

Is the shredded green in the moon cake delicious?

Whether the green and red silk of moon cakes is delicious depends on personal taste. The green and red silk in moon cakes are mostly dried products such as shredded carrots and dried tangerine peel, which have the taste of raw materials. Adding them to moon cakes can improve the taste, and some people like to eat them. But the texture is hard and the taste is not very good. According to the survey, most people don't like it and can't stand the smell. In particular, many Wuren moon cakes will put all kinds of green and red silk, which is one of the reasons why people complain that Wuren moon cakes taste bad.

Except for a few people who are willing to eat, the green and red silk made of radish, melon peel and other things is not delicious in itself, but the taste is modulated. The function of green silk in moon cakes is mainly to color, that is, to make the cake look more beautiful.

Filling method of green and red silk moon cakes

1. Wash radish, mustard, orange peel, wax gourd, watermelon peel and other raw materials, and cut them into filaments.

2. Soak in salty lime water for two or three days to make the silk strips hard and not perishable, and at the same time remove the original flavor of the silk strips.

3. After drying, it is dyed with red and green colors to make green and red silk semi-finished products.

4. Finally, add sugar and stir, and the green and red silk stuffing is ready.