Che cake is Maren sugar in Xinjiang outside the region people do not know the name of the case according to the characteristics of the sale of the name given, is a kind of Xinjiang Uygur people using traditional characteristics of the process, the selection of walnut kernels, corn syrup, raisins, grape juice, sesame, rose, Batan apricot, dates and other raw materials boiled into the national specialty foods.
The taste is pure, mellow, moderately sweet and sour, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, but also nutritious, without any artificial additives, and has a history of several hundred years in Hotan area.
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Background of the creation of the Chegao:
Walnut kernel candies Uyghur people call Maren candy, some local people call Chegao or "Xinjiang Chegao".
Chegao has a long history, as early as the Silk Road period, Xinjiang is an important transportation hub for domestic and foreign caravans, but also a very important food supply station. Because the merchants are doing long-distance travel, the food must be able to carry a long time to save and easy to carry, and to be rich in essential nutrients, a variety of amino acids and trace elements, such as vitamin C.
Otherwise, people long-distance trekking down, like Da Gama and Magellan ocean-going fleet of sailors, is going to get scurvy and die. And cut cake has the easy to save, easy to carry and high nutritional characteristics are to meet the needs of people traveling to and from the commercial road.