"Northeast children, in any childhood, are not allowed to eat canned food when they are sick. It will be fine if they eat canned food." "Canned peaches will bless your health!"
Why does this canned yellow peach, which even the manufacturer deliberately rumors that it has no medicinal effect and advises netizens to rationally hoard goods, become an "artifact" for treating colds and fever in the eyes of the Northeast?
The product of the age of material shortage.
"When I was sick when I was young, my family would feed me some canned yellow peaches, which were cool and sweet. It would be much more comfortable after eating." For many people in Northeast China, eating canned peaches when they have a fever or a cold has become a part of the treatment, and it can even be dubbed "Northeast Metaphysics".
However, in fact, eating canned food with a cold and fever is just a helpless move of the people in Northeast China in the era of material shortage. The early canned yellow peaches were just the "little brothers" among many canned fruits.
"When I was a child, I had a fever and caught a cold. In addition to prescribing medicine normally, the doctor would also eat canned fruit. In fact, it was because the canned food contained sugar." Ms. Qiu, who lives in Liaoning, told Zhongxin Finance, "White sugar has diuretic effects and helps the body recover, but at that time, white sugar was very expensive, so canned fruit was used instead."
Besides replacing sugar, canned fruit is the "body double" of fresh fruit. In the past, fruits in Northeast China were rare, almost only apples, pears and peaches, which were difficult to transport and store. Therefore, canned fruit, which is convenient to store, sweet but not greasy in taste, and can supplement water, sugar and vitamin C, has become the first choice for the sick northeast people.
The "turnaround" of canned yellow peaches in Northeast China
. According to Ms. Qiu's memory, the earliest canned fruits popular in the market were canned oranges, canned apples, canned pineapples, canned peaches and so on, among which canned oranges and canned apples were the most popular.
"Oranges are rare in the northeast, so there are many people who like to buy canned oranges for early adopters; Apples are produced in the northeast, and the price of canned apples is also the cheapest, and many people buy them. " In contrast, canned yellow peaches are actually not easy to sell.
This situation changed in the 1990s. At that time, the merchants played the assassin's mace of "Tujili" in the propaganda. "Peach trees ward off evil spirits, and' peach' is homophonic with' escape'. Eating canned yellow peaches can' escape', so it spread."
Since then, canned yellow peach has become a veritable "king of canned fruit" in Northeast China. Canned yellow peach is not only a nutritional product purchased when you have a fever or a cold, but "two packages of bad cake and two bottles of canned yellow peach" has become a small standard for many Northeast people to give gifts, adding a festive feeling to the table for birthdays and holidays.
From the early canned goods with miscellaneous brands to the establishment of brands after the promulgation of the Trademark Law, Northeasters who like to eat canned yellow peaches have also brought a lot of canned fruit manufacturers in Northeast China, such as Lin Jiapu and Zhenxin, to Dalian, Liaoning, which is rich in yellow peaches.
Experts and manufacturers remind: there is no rational hoarding of goods.
Today, with the development of the internet age, the enthusiasm of the Northeast people for canned yellow peaches has also infected the present southerners. After canned yellow peaches became popular, many netizens in the south also expressed their feelings: "I panicked as soon as I was in South Renye Fang. I never knew that canned yellow peaches had this effect for 30 years, so I hoarded them first."
However, can canned yellow peach really treat fever and cold?
According to media reports, Gao Xiaoling, deputy director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, reminded that canned yellow peach is not really a specific medicine for fever and cough, but more a sweet "placebo". Especially when cough symptoms appear, eating sweets such as canned yellow peaches will aggravate cough.
Lin Jiapu, a canning enterprise, recently issued a statement saying that canned peaches themselves have no medicinal effect.
Lin Jiapu also issued a statement recently, saying that the canned yellow peach itself has no medicinal effect, but can relieve the uncomfortable state when it is sick and has no appetite. He also said that the supply of canned yellow peaches is sufficient at present, and it is recommended that netizens rationally hoard goods and do not blindly follow.
However, for many people in Northeast China, canned yellow peaches are still a spiritual comfort when they are sick. "Canned yellow peaches will bless every child in Northeast China."