Translated into words, moon cakes with mango flavor, strawberry flavor, cantaloupe flavor, peach flavor, orange flavor, lemon flavor, pineapple flavor and blueberry flavor on the market are actually filled with wax gourd.
As soon as this picture comes out, Wuren moon cake and wax gourd jump first:
Wuren moon cake
Five minutes ago:
"Who told me to get out of the mooncake world before? They are all a group of melons! "
wax gourd
Five minutes ago:
"It turns out that I am the trump card of the body doubles and the MVP of the spare tire. I am not convinced!"
People watching the scene are even more excited!
Of course, some netizens said that this is nothing-
There is still one month before the Mid-Autumn Festival (October 65438+April). The reporter found that moon cakes already have their own counters.
Looking around, Soviet-style moon cakes account for most of the shelves, followed by various beautifully packaged egg yolk moon cakes, souffles that have emerged in recent years, and moon cakes with small and fresh shapes.
Among the few fruit moon cakes, the first one I found was "Crystal Blueberry Original Taoshanpi Moon Cake".
Turning over the back, I really found the figure of "wax gourd".
Winter sauce (wax gourd sauce, sugar, edible salt, etc. )
However, this moon cake also clearly indicates that the blueberry content is ≥50%, not all of which are wax gourd.
The second kind is small moon cakes sold in bulk by the catty. The taste is very rich, including cantaloupe, pineapple, apple, strawberry, grape and other fruit flavors. I turned over and looked at the ingredients list. As the netizen said, what I saw was not fruit, but "wax gourd".
The third moon cake is also weighed in bulk, and its taste is relatively rare, with milk grape flavor and blueberry blackcurrant flavor.
Looking at the back, the ingredients are also "winter melon".
In addition, I also found that there are two kinds of moon cakes that are not fruity, and there are also "white gourd" in them.
One is egg yolk pumpkin moon cake.
One is coconut moon cake.
Seeing this, you may think that "winter melon" only appears in cheap moon cakes, but it is not. There is also "wax gourd" in the nut moon cake in the gift box of Hong Kong Maxim Moon Cake with a price of 300+.
Why do fruit moon cakes only love wax gourd, but not pumpkin, watermelon and cucumber?
Search for "winter melon moon cake" on the Internet, and you will find that this is actually an old news.
There are no fresh fruits such as cantaloupe, strawberry and peach in fruity moon cakes, but it has been synthesized with wax gourd (Rong) fiber and food additives such as essence and pigment for a long time.
This can be traced back to pineapple cake, a famous place in Taiwan Province Province.
This pineapple cake filling is first boiled with 100% pure pineapple and sugar! Unfortunately, the pineapple itself is disappointing, and the fiber is too thick to be liked.
In other words, adding wax gourd fiber to pineapple juice is actually a good way for pastry chefs to improve the sour taste of pineapple cake. At present, many famous pineapple cake on the market are wax gourd pineapple cake.
In fact, when many people make their own moon cakes, they also deliberately use wax gourd as the bottom.
Aside from the cost factor, wax gourd is also easier to be shaped into stuffing than other fruits, and then it is naturally introduced to make fruit moon cakes.
Think back carefully to those fruit moon cakes with only wax gourd in the ingredients, and you will find that there is an extra word "taste" in the title.
So there may be 1% fruit in the fruity moon cakes we eat! No!
So where are the real melon moon cakes? It's time to give it a birthright!