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What is the general price in dry sea cucumber?
A year or two ago, in the hearts of people in Quancheng, the price of 0.5 kg of dry sea cucumber was around 700 yuan. Now, in the sea cucumber monopoly counters of shopping malls in Quancheng, the price of dry sea cucumber per kg ranges from 800 yuan to 3000 yuan. After a year or two, why is the price of sea cucumber so different?

Da Zhang revealed the secret: "Fresh sea cucumbers are at least 50 yuan per catty, and only 25 jins of fresh sea cucumbers can be processed into 1 catty of dry sea cucumber. That is to say, the cost of raw materials per catty of dry sea cucumber is more than 1200 yuan, plus labor costs, and it is normal to sell them to 1800 yuan to 2,000 yuan." Mr. Zhang said that most of dry sea cucumber's 700-800 yuan (0.5 kg) is salt ginseng, which flooded the Jinan market a year or two ago. Now the price is high, because of the continuous investigation by the industrial and commercial departments, the salt ginseng has been withdrawn from shopping malls and supermarkets and transferred to the underground, and the quality of sea cucumbers in the mainstream market has improved.

What is salt ginseng? Da Zhang introduced that due to the high price of sea cucumbers, in order to make more money, some sea cucumber processors in Dalian and Shandong coastal areas put small sea cucumbers in salt water for two or three days and then dried them, with an average weight gain of about one or two per kilogram of sea cucumbers; Then put it in salt water for two or three days, and gain about two ounces, and so on.

"Seven or eight hundred yuan a catty of sea cucumbers are generally like this. They are soaked in salt water for five or six times, and the most are soaked for more than ten times. In this way, there may be eight or two salt in a catty of sea cucumbers processed. After adding salt and plant ash, you can add one or two plant ash to a catty of sea cucumber. Adding plant ash is not bad. Some sea cucumbers are added with honeycomb coal ash, while others even add lead powder. The sea cucumber processed in this way looks big and has a black luster, but it is all salt and ash. After soaking in water, only one layer of skin remains. After such processing, the nutritional value of sea cucumber is basically lost in pickling, and there are few nutrients left. There is a saying in our industry that' it is better to eat three or two dried ginseng (good ginseng) than one catty of salt ginseng'. " Big Zhang said.

"dry sea cucumber, which is less than 0/000 yuan per catty, should be cautious when buying. They are either salt ginseng or some sea cucumber varieties with low nutritional value. Low-salt and salt-free dried sea cucumber should be at least 1000 per catty. "

According to the relevant personage of Jinan Industrial and Commercial Bureau, since 2003, the industrial department has continuously carried out large-scale inspections on sea cucumbers in shopping malls and supermarkets, and some high-salinity salt ginseng has been gradually cleared out of the market due to quality problems. Now it is difficult to see the shadow of salt ginseng in big shopping malls and supermarkets. However, according to Da Zhang, there are still many salt ginseng in some markets in Jinan.

Secret: Most people who buy salt ginseng are "gift givers"

Da Zhang said that there are many sea cucumber wholesale and retail households in the seasoning wholesale market on Dikou Road in Jinan, and some salt ginseng in Jinan market is wholesale from here. Generally, only salt ginseng is wholesaled to acquaintances. If it is a stranger, they generally don't wholesale it.

Zhang said: "Some of the salt ginseng in Jinan market came directly from Yantai, while most of the salt ginseng in Yantai came from Dalian. Most of the local salt ginseng in Shandong has only been soaked in salt water for two or three times, and some salt ginseng produced in Dalian has been soaked for more than a dozen times. Soaking for more than five or six times means selling salt instead of sea cucumber. " Da Zhang said that the "gift-giving style" popular in the society now objectively provided soil for the existence of salt ginseng. During the New Year, the consumption of sea cucumbers was amazing, and a large number of sea cucumbers were sent out as gifts.