After drinking the first cup of milk tea in autumn, have you tasted the first moon cake of autumn?
Every New Year's Festival is the beginning of the battle between various merchants, and this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is the same. Perhaps, you will never think of any filling in the mooncake.
First there are new flavors such as snail powder mooncakes, sauerkraut bullfrog mooncakes, crayfish mooncakes, etc., and then there are 1 super large mooncakes with top 10, and now there are strange mooncake patents, such as "bottle mooncakes"...
"Ice cream mooncake", "bottle mooncake"...
Mooncake related patent applications exceeded 10,000
Mooncake, a mid-Autumn Festival food, is one of the traditional Chinese delicacies made from flour, eggs, sugar and other ingredients. Since it is called food, it must be edible, so when you see "ice cream mooncake" and "bottle mooncake", don't panic, it is actually a patent.
According to the Tianyancha App, there are more than 10,000 patent applications related to "mooncakes" in China, and there are more than 1,800 patents in the current state of validity, most of which are appearance patents, and the mooncakes in the shape of bottles are one of them. The patent introduction shows that the "bottle mooncake" is shaped like a bottle.
Bottle mooncake patent.
The shape of the mooncake is patented.
In addition, the strange mooncake patents include "river crab mooncake" and "ice cream mooncake". As a patent for appearance, these mooncakes are shaped in the shape of a river crab and an ice cream, respectively.
River crab mooncakes.
In addition, there are also hollowed-out circular mooncakes, separable multi-layer mooncakes, etc., and there are many kinds of patterns.
A collection of strange mooncakes on the Internet.
Snail powder flavor, crayfish flavor...
A variety of "dark stuffing" mooncakes online battle
In addition to these strange-looking mooncakes, there are also many mooncakes with various ingredients. Snail powder flavor, crayfish flavor, mustard salmon flavor, hairy crab flavor, fresh meat flavor, milk tea flavor... All kinds of strange mooncakes, everything you need.
Crayfish mooncakes.
A peppery soup mooncake, on an e-commerce platform, shows that 6 mooncakes with beef peppery soup flavor need about 109 yuan to buy, and 8 ordinary peppery soup flavor gift boxes need about 230 yuan. Love peppery soup and also love mooncakes. Peppery soup, mooncakes put together, this wonderful collision and combination, is the taste of Henan is not wrong.
According to the product introduction, the ingredients are beef, fungus, shiitake mushrooms, peanuts, gluten and so on. According to the merchants, the merchants behind this mooncake were originally authentic Peppery Soup Restaurants in Henan, and the taste was absolutely authentic. Despite this, the Red Star News reporter found that the mooncake has not yet sold much.
Peppery soup mooncakes.
This year, the most "devastating" snail powder mooncake came out, and the filling is made of sour shoots, snail meat, tribute dishes, rice noodles and so on. Judging from the product introduction, the skin of the snail powder mooncake is black and shiny, which is very similar to the asphalt road under the high temperature. According to the merchant, this is the reason for the addition of cuttlefish juice to the skin.
How does it taste? According to the comments of guests who have eaten: "The skin is thin and filling, the taste is very unique, and there is a little spicy." It is not at all the horror taste of "Chang'e and Wu Gang don't want to go down to the mortals" speculated by some netizens who have not practiced.
Snail powder mooncakes.
In addition, the online sale also has a hairy crab, vinegar popcorn and fresh meat composed of filling, bite down to feel the vinegar beads burst on the tip of the tongue of the hair crab fresh meat pop beads mooncake; from the Q bomb shrimp meat with fresh meat to make stuffed spicy crayfish mooncake; salmon, fish roe, seaweed and with mustard seasoning sushi salmon mooncake... All kinds of stuffing, only you can't think of it, no merchant can't do it.
〖How to Eat〗
One 150-gram ordinary mooncake is equivalent to 3 bowls of rice
Eating mooncakes pays attention to "fresh and appropriate amount" Several types of people should pay attention to
Mooncakes are eaten once a year, weight loss is 365 days a year, and some people eat bad stomachs because of mooncakes. So, what should be paid attention to in the process of selecting and eating mooncakes?
Wu Pengyu, attending physician of the Department of Gastroenterology of the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, told Red Star News that the general cloud leg mooncake and puff pastry mooncake have the highest oil content, so it is necessary to eat less. In addition, egg yolk mooncakes are high in cholesterol and cannot be eaten more.
Yu Wanting, a registered dietitian and clinical nutritionist in the nutrition department of the hospital, introduced that the content of mooncakes in calories, fat and sodium is high. In particular, the heat is about 400kcal/100g on average. Diabetes, coronary heart disease and other groups, more attention should be paid to the scope and quantity of consumption. Taking a normal adult woman as an example, the number of calories required a day is about 1200 kcal, and a piece of ordinary mooncake of about 150 grams has a calorie of nearly 600 kcal, which is about equal to 3 bowls of rice, accounting for half of the total calories needed throughout the day.
What are the principles of eating mooncakes? Yu Wanting summarized the principle of fresh and appropriate amount, including not replacing normal staple foods, reducing the amount of staple foods, and being early and not late (while increasing vegetables and protein, balancing diet structure). In addition, the following types of people should pay special attention to the consumption of mooncakes:
【Diabetes】The total amount of each consumption should not exceed one-quarter. While eating mooncakes, it is necessary to reduce the staple food of the day and control the intake of oils and fats.
【Elderly and children】 The elderly and children have weak digestive function, the fat content of moon cakes is high, and eating more is easy to cause indigestion.
【Three high people】 Excessive intake will make too much fat, but also increase blood viscosity, affect blood lipids, blood pressure, is not conducive to blood pressure control.
【Gastritis】Excessive consumption will cause more gastric acid secretion, stimulate ulcers, and in severe cases, stomach discomfort and bleeding will occur.
〖History of Mooncake Development〗
Changes in three raw materials: sugar, oil, and noodles
As a landmark food of the Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes have become a traditional culture and emotional sustenance, giving people the impression of "long history". So, what was the ancient mooncake like? What historical changes have taken place? On September 18, professional commentator Cai Hui made an interpretation for us.
Cai Hui introduced that there are many ancient records about mooncakes, and folklore has a tendency to say more and more for a long time. However, the more accurate origin should be only in the past three or four hundred years. He believes: "The history of mooncakes, the earliest called dim sum is probably in the Song Dynasty; if it refers to the rudimentary shape of mooncakes, it is in the Yuan Dynasty with pulp extraction technology; if it refers to Su-style mooncakes and Cantonese-style mooncakes, at most it is the Ming and Qing dynasties." ”
Sugar: The emergence of pulp lifting technology Mooncake making has taken a big step forward
Cai Hui told Red Star News that sugar, as one of the important raw materials for mooncakes, its "pulp extraction technology" can be described as a major progress in mooncake production. In the past, in the refining of sugar, there were many impurities, and if the sugar was not purified, it was placed in the noodles and baked, and there may be unexpected situations such as explosions.
The sugar purified by the pulp extraction technology is more pure, so that the mooncake baked from the noodles is similar to the tap red and white in today's mooncake. This is the prototype of the mooncake in the true sense. However, if we go to eat tap red and tap white today, it may feel very unpalatable.
Oil: Vegetable oil instead of animal oil Refining technology appeared late
In ancient times, the refining of vegetable oil appeared later.
Cai Hui found in the classic records that in the bronzes excavated from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, it was found that there was so-called "oil" in the baking pan, but these "oils" were animal oils, that is, "fats".
Cai Hui said that the technology of refining vegetable oil was relatively mature in the Song Dynasty, and before that it was basically animal oil. Prior to this, the oil of the Tang Dynasty was basically animal oil.
Noodles: Nomadic peoples brought into the Central Plains
Cai Hui introduced that although vegetable oil gradually became common in the Song Dynasty, the combination of oil and noodles is likely to be influenced by nomadic people.
"Most of the stuffing we eat today can be found in the Qi Min Zhi Shu. The creation era of "Qi Min Zhi Shu" is the period when the nomadic people entered the Central Plains and the civilizations of the two sides were combined. Cai Hui said that it was at this time that the nomadic way of combining noodles and vegetables was popularized in the Central Plains. In addition, you can also see how to make noodles, how to make hu cakes, how to make pies, how to make buns in "Qi Min Zhi Shu"... Therefore, the mooncake is actually a product of cultural exchange, which is a combination of intensive farming agriculture in the western region and the culture of the Central Plains. ”
Why do some people find mooncakes unpalatable?
Now, many people are complaining more and more about mooncakes. Here, Cai Hui mentioned the story of Mr. Zhou Zuoren, "Mr. Zhou once went to talk to the people in the dim sum shop, and after a chat, he realized that the mooncake was unpalatable. "The people at the dim sum shop say that because to make these snacks, you must use butter, dairy products, and then knead the dough, so that the baked things are fragrant and delicious. But in the past, people couldn't get out of butter, so they had to combine sugar and oil, and the things that came out of this way were naturally not delicious.
Red Star News reporter Dai Jiajia intern Guo Wenyi according to the network
Edited by Peng Jiang
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