How to buy moon cakes?
The Mid-Autumn Festival without moon cakes is not a perfect festival. But do you know how to buy moon cakes?
1, depending on the brand, try to choose those products with famous brands and time-honored brands.
2. Look at the trademark and buy moon cakes with complete logo specifications. Pay special attention to check whether there is the word "moon cake" in the eye-catching position of the box.
3, look at the production date and shelf life, check whether the packaging is complete. The production date and shelf life of moon cake stuffing are marked on the front of the package, and the production license number is on the back.
4. See if there is obvious greasy feeling on the surface of the moon cake, whether the shape of the moon cake is standardized, whether the color is uniform, whether the pattern is clear, whether it is burnt or moldy. The newly-made moon cakes are bright in color, shiny in appearance and soft in taste. Inferior moon cakes are not straight, dull, dirty and dry. In addition, some moon cakes look dirty because the oil used is not good, and it may be inferior oil. Good moon cakes are bright in color, shiny in appearance and soft in taste.
I want to know if the moon cake has the smell of grease. Don't cut it, just bring it here and unpack it. You can smell it directly!
6. It's tasting. Generally, Cantonese-style moon cakes are thin and stuffed, with pure taste and soft and refreshing taste. The fillings are mainly lotus seed paste, coconut paste, egg yolk, fruit and all kinds of meat stuffing, which are moderately sweet and salty. The skin stuffing of Beijing moon cakes is elaborate and complicated. There are four kinds of mooncake skins: oily skin, crispy skin, clear skin and jingguang skin. Stuffing is divided into three categories: refined stuffing, fried stuffing and kneaded stuffing. The stuffing contains a lot of fruit. After cutting, you can see peach kernels, melon seeds, hemp seeds, sweet-scented osmanthus, green red silk and various fruit materials. Purple red moon cakes also contain rock sugar, which is crisp and delicious, soft and delicate. Poor quality moon cakes are not only hard but also bitter. Cantonese moon cake Wuren moon cake walnut cashew nuts melon seeds peanuts sesame seeds can be seen! !
7. Pay attention to the thickness of the skin after cutting the moon cake. The normal thickness of moon cakes should be about 4 mm, the spiced beef skin is thin and stuffed, and pieces of leeks can be seen! !
8. Label identification: The label of moon cakes should meet the requirements of GB77 18 General Rules for Labeling in prepackaged foods. Consumers need to observe whether the obvious position of the packaging box indicates the true attributes of the product when buying moon cakes; You can't just mark the trademark name and commodity name; Whether to indicate all the raw materials used in the order of dosage, whether to indicate pigments, flavors, preservatives, etc. In addition, consumers should pay special attention to the content, production date, shelf life, factory name, address, product implementation standard number and hygiene license number to avoid buying "three noes" products.
How to preserve Mid-Autumn moon cakes?
Second, how to save moon cakes?
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are often many moon cakes that can't be eaten. How to preserve these moon cakes has become a big problem. Many people choose to give Mid-Autumn moon cakes as gifts and buy moon cake gift boxes early. If it is stored for a long time, there will definitely be problems. Don't worry, food experts introduce several methods to teach you how to preserve moon cakes.
How to preserve moon cakes, we must first pay attention to the shelf life. Due to the different fillings, the manufacturing processes of the manufacturers are also different, and the shelf life is also very different. Now many manufacturers put moon cakes with different fillings in one package, and only indicate the shelf life on the outer packaging. However, when we store moon cakes, we should pay attention to judging their shelf life according to different moon cake fillings, and solve the problem of short shelf life as soon as possible.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family should buy some moon cakes for the festival or feed them to friends and relatives. However, in August of the lunar calendar after autumn, the temperature is still high, and moon cakes contain a lot of water and are easy to deteriorate. So there is a problem of buying and keeping. There are two kinds of moon cakes: hard and soft. You should choose them according to your taste, not too many. If you want to feed relatives and friends far away, you'd better choose hard moon cakes. This kind of moon cake has less stuffing and low water content, and will not deteriorate due to the high temperature in the mailing process. When you can't eat all the moon cakes, if you have refrigeration equipment at home, you can put them in food bags or in pastry boxes for preservation. Soft moon cakes can also be stored for 10 days if they are placed in a clean basket and hung in a ventilated place. Soft and hard moon cakes can also be stacked in layers in the food cabinet, and the shelf life can be extended through the restriction between them.
1. How to preserve Mid-Autumn moon cakes-how to preserve them well, we should distinguish different kinds.
Experts say that Mid-Autumn moon cakes are rich in oil and sugar, and they are easily mildewed and deteriorated when heated and wet. Therefore, it must be stored in a cool and ventilated place at low temperature. Generally speaking, the more sugar and oil, the less likely it is to go bad. For example, time-honored moon cakes such as white sugar, red bean paste and jujube paste can have a shelf life of more than two months, and moon cakes filled with nuts can be preserved for a long time, while moon cakes with low sugar and sugar are more likely to deteriorate. The more water there is, the easier it is to breed microorganisms. Therefore, the better the taste, the shorter the shelf life of moon cakes, such as fresh meat and egg yolk moon cakes, and the shelf life is only about two weeks.
Moon cakes should be handled with care, especially Su-style moon cakes, because the skin is crisp and easily broken. If the skin falls off, it will not only affect the appearance, but also affect the taste and quality, and it is easy to deteriorate due to moisture. Moon cakes are rich in oil and sugar, and are easy to mildew and deteriorate when heated and wet. They must be stored in a cool and ventilated place at low temperature.
Generally speaking, moon cakes are soft, moist and perishable. Mooncakes stuffed with almonds and mangoes can be stored for about 15 days at a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius. The storage time of moon cakes filled with bean paste, lotus seed paste and jujube paste should not exceed 10 day; If the temperature exceeds 30 degrees Celsius, the storage time of moon cakes should be shortened appropriately, generally not more than 7 days; As for moon cakes such as fresh meat, shredded chicken and ham, you should eat them while buying them.
How to store Haagen-Dazs ice cream moon cakes? When purchasing Haagen-Dazs ice cream moon cake gift box, the merchant will provide carbon dioxide dry ice, which can keep the low temperature of 1~2 hours, and then put it in the freezer after returning home.
2. How to preserve Mid-Autumn moon cakes-can moon cakes be kept in the refrigerator?
You can put the moon cakes in the refrigerator with a box. In this environment, the shelf life of moon cakes will be longer. When you are ready to eat, take out the moon cakes one hour in advance, so as to ensure the taste. But after all, moon cakes are cakes baked with flour, oil, sugar and nuts. Although for some kinds of moon cakes, putting them in the refrigerator can prolong the shelf life, it will still affect the taste. This is because the starch in the raw materials of moon cakes will mature and soften after baking, but at low temperature, the mature starch will precipitate water and age (that is, "retrogradation"), making the moon cakes hard and the taste worse.
When moon cakes are preserved, they should not be put together with other foods and sundries, so as to avoid cross-talk and lose their proper taste and characteristics. In the process of storage, we should also pay attention to prevent cockroaches, ants, mice, etc. from eating and preventing infectious diseases. In addition, when buying boxed moon cakes or bulk moon cakes, you should see the production date or factory date clearly so as to grasp the shelf life. This paper introduces how to preserve moon cakes and how to deal with leftover moon cakes from Mid-Autumn Festival. Is there any good way?
Third, the classification of Mid-Autumn moon cakes.
After a long period of evolution and development, China mooncakes are constantly being renovated, with more and more varieties. Regional differences make the varieties have their own unique styles in appearance, taste and taste.
There are many kinds of moon cakes in China: sweet, salty, salty and spicy in taste; In terms of stuffing, there are five kernels, red bean paste, rock sugar, sesame seeds, ham moon cakes and so on; According to the skin, there are three categories: pulp skin, mixed sugar skin and crispy skin; As far as modeling is concerned, there are glossy moon cakes, lace moon cakes, the Monkey King moon cakes and Longevity Moon cakes. Specifically, the national moon cakes can be divided into five categories: Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Jiangsu and Chaozhou. The colors are similar, but the flavors are quite different: Beijing-Tianjin moon cakes are known for their vegetarian characters, and the oil and stuffing are vegetarian; Cantonese moon cakes are light in oil and partial in sugar; The Soviet style is rich in flavor, giving consideration to both oil and sugar, preferring crispness; Chaozhou moon cakes have a flat body, a white shell, and a crisp filling.
Others include Yunnan cuisine moon cakes, Ningbo cuisine moon cakes, Shanghai style moon cakes, Xiamen Qinglan moon cakes, Fuzhou Wuren moon cakes, Xi's Demaogong crystal moon cakes, Harbin's old Ding Feng brand moon cakes, Yangzhou's black sesame moon cakes and Shaoxing's dried sesame moon cakes.
Beijing-style moon cakes are as crisp and delicious as sesame cakes; The crust of Su-style moon cakes tastes thin, soft, white, sweet and fragrant, and the looser the crust, the whiter the better. The crust of Cantonese-style moon cakes is similar to that of West Point, and the fillings are also famous. The traditional moon cake in Taiwan Province Province, also known as Mooncake, is made of sweet potato, sweet but not greasy, soft and delicious; Muslim moon cakes are unique to Muslims who believe in Islam and do not contain pig ingredients. Muslim beef moon cakes are the most famous.
Buying moon cakes 2 1. Why eat moon cakes?
According to legend, in ancient China, the emperor had a system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. In the folk, every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there is also a custom about Yue Bai or offering sacrifices to the moon. The famous proverb "The moon is full on August 15th, and the Mid-Autumn moon cake is sweet and fragrant" tells the custom of urban and rural people to eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn night. At first, moon cakes were used to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion, and mooncakes gradually became holiday gifts.
Second, how to buy moon cakes
1, check. Check the label and identification of the product. First, check whether the name and address of the manufacturer are marked. Also carefully look at the production date and shelf life, but also look at whether the product implementation standards and net content are marked. When buying moon cakes, whether boxed or in bulk, consumers are advised to go to regular shopping malls, supermarkets or manufacturers to buy them.
2. Look. Look at the shape, color and texture. Good quality moon cakes should have a complete and full appearance, a slightly bulging surface, clear corners, no concave bottom, no shrinkage, no stuffing exposure and no cracking. When buying moon cakes, don't excessively pursue the freshness of the products, don't think that the closer to the production date, the better, and even hope to produce on the same day. For example, varieties such as Cantonese moon cakes, which have just been produced, generally have to have an "oil return period" to taste better.
3. products. Taste and mouthfeel. Fresh and pure moon cakes should have the taste and flavor of the variety, without peculiar smell. Preservation: Low-temperature, cool and ventilated moon cakes are rich in oil and sugar. If it is left for a long time, it will lose its color, fragrance and taste. When they are heated and wet, they are prone to mildew and food poisoning.
Third, how to preserve moon cakes
1, the shelf life of moon cakes on the market is generally about 45-60 days. Storage conditions of moon cakes, when the temperature exceeds 30℃, the storage time of moon cakes without a single package should generally not exceed 7 days; As for fresh meat, shredded chicken, ham and other moon cakes, it is better to buy and eat at the same time.
2. When the Mid-Autumn moon cakes can't be eaten for a while, they can be preserved in the following ways: put the moon cakes in clean food bags and put them in the fresh-keeping cabinet of the refrigerator; Hard moon cakes can be stored in paper boxes, and can be kept for ten days without deterioration. Moon cakes are rich in oil and sugar, and they are easy to mildew and deteriorate when heated and wet. Even the moon cakes in small packages should be placed in a low-temperature and ventilated place.
Fourth, some taboos that women need to know when eating moon cakes
1, don't eat old moon cakes.
From the perspective of daily health care, women should eat moon cakes fresh and not old, because moon cakes contain a lot of fat and are easy to deteriorate if they are stored for too long. People often buy many moon cakes at a time during festivals, but long-term storage of moon cakes can easily lead to stuffing deterioration and food poisoning after eating.
Therefore, it is best to eat moon cakes while buying them. Generally speaking, when families have a holiday, most of the moon cakes they buy can last until after the holiday, or even longer. In order to prevent moon cakes from deteriorating, leftover moon cakes should be properly preserved.
Women shouldn't eat moon cakes at night.
This is because eating moon cakes too late may become some factors of blood coagulation and thrombosis.
3. Pay attention to the choice of taste when eating moon cakes.
When women eat moon cakes, it is best to eat salty ones first, and then sweet ones. Otherwise, it's tasteless.
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4. Women should not drink more porridge when eating moon cakes.
Because moon cakes are pasta, they may be dry, so many people are willing to eat them with porridge. They will be sweet but not sweet, salty but not salty, and have a unique taste. In fact, moon cakes and porridge are both foods with high glycemic index, which not only make diabetics uncomfortable, but also are harmful to human brain cells and reduce fat metabolism.
5. Attitude of not eating
From the perspective of modern health care, moon cakes contain more fat and sucrose, even if they are low in fat and sugar, they still contain flour. Eating too much will produce a feeling of fullness, which will easily lead to fullness and bloating, indigestion, loss of appetite, high blood sugar and high calories.
6. Don't eat too much if it is hot.
Eating too many moon cakes is easy to get angry, so if women are hot, don't eat more moon cakes, otherwise it will be difficult to digest, and internal fire may rise, resulting in symptoms such as acne, constipation and swollen gums.
Health tip: There are many taboos for women to eat moon cakes, especially during the physiological period. Don't eat more moon cakes, otherwise it will be bad for blood circulation. Pay more attention to women's sex life.