When it comes to dates, what comes to mind?
Is it a sweet and dense health red date, or a crunchy, sweet and refreshing fruit winter date?
Today, I will take you into the world of wild southern sour dates, the originator of the jujube world.
Explore historical sites and find the soul of ancient culture
It is said that the ancient culture of the Chinese nation is a history of the development of the Yellow River Basin. The Nansour jujube culture can definitely be called a treasure of the Yellow River culture.
According to archaeological records, 20 million years ago, the southern acid jujube was widely distributed in Eurasia, and now, it has become a plant unique to East Asia. In 2020, Chinese and American paleontologists found fossils of jujube fruits 15 million years ago (Miocene) in Fujian Province; In the Yaohemudu site in Zhejiang about 7,000 years ago, archaeological staff have also unearthed a large number of southern acid jujube nuclei. In addition to the Hemudu site, the nucleus of Nanacid jujube was also found in the Liangzhu cultural site in Yuhang, Hangzhou (more than 5000 years ago) and the ancient coconut shell mound site in Gaoming, Guangdong (about 4700 years ago). The twenty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty (1683) edition of the "Wanzai County Record" also made a detailed record of the processing of southern acid jujubes... This kind of data can prove that the ancient people on the mainland began to eat Nan acid jujube very early, and with the progress and development of human civilization, the fruit of Nan acid jujube was successively processed and produced into unique food with a long shelf life for consumption, which has been passed down to this day.
Medicinal food is multi-use, full of treasure
Don't look at a small southern acid date, it can be described as a treasure. Its bark and leaves can be extracted from gum, fruit can be eaten raw or wine, fruit core can be used as activated carbon raw material, stem bark fiber can be used as rope. In the "Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine", the description of southern acid jujube is as follows: "Fresh fruit, eliminate food stagnation, cure food stagnation abdominal pain; Fruit pit, clear heat and poison, insecticidal convergence, cure soup fire injury"; At the same time, we can also learn from the records of the "Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China" that Nan acid jujube has the functions of promoting qi, activating blood, nourishing the mind and calming the mind, eliminating food, sobering up wine, and detoxifying.
In addition, its nutritional value is also very high. It not only contains potassium, iron, zinc, potassium, selenium and other trace elements, but also rich in nutrients such as jujube polyphenols, wild fruit VC, natural pectin, dietary fiber, organic acids and so on; The vitamin C content per 100 g of fresh fruit is several times to dozens of times higher than that of kiwifruit, hawthorn and apple, and is known as the "king of fruits in the mountains".
So the question is, can we make such a delicious and healthy snack for such a green natural wild fruit resource that can not only meet the needs of our taste buds, but also be used as a medicinal herb?
Superior ecological environment, breeding unique green food
Chongyi County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, has a forest coverage rate of 88.3%, ranking first in the national collective forest area, and is the only one named by the State Forestry Administration as the "Hometown of South Sour Jujube in China". The ecological environment here is superior, it belongs to the subtropical humid monsoon climate, affected by the monsoon and topography, and has the climatic characteristics of being very suitable for the growth of southern acid jujube. According to statistics, the distribution area of wild southern acid jujube in the county is more than 300,000 mu, with an annual output of more than 10,000 tons of southern acid jujube fruit, and the main raw material for the production of southern acid jujube cake is this wild southern acid jujube fruit.
In 1992, Jiangxi Qiyunshan Food Co., Ltd., an excellent leading enterprise of green food in China, located in Chongyi County, the hometown of South Sour Jujube in China, made full use of this natural resource advantage and used a special process combining tradition and modernity to create the "Qiyunshan" brand Nan Sour Jujube Cake without adding any pigment or edible gum, and fully retaining the rich natural nutrients of Nan Sour Jujube. The sweet and sour and smooth Qiyun Shan Nan sour date cake has won numerous awards since its inception, and its products sell well at home and abroad, and it is the only food in China that has obtained the "green food" certification for 26 consecutive years since 1997; It is also the only brand authorized to use the national geographical indication of "Chongyi South Sour Date Cake"...
31 years of ingenuity, forged the legend of Nan Sour Jujube "Food Generation"
As the saying goes: "The people take food as the sky, and food and safety as the first". With the rapid development of the mainland economy and the continuous improvement of living standards, food safety and nutrition and health have increasingly become the focus of people's attention, and consumers' requirements for food in addition to "pure taste" also hope that food has high nutritional value and health attributes.
As the pioneer and leader of Nan Sour Jujube Food, in order to meet consumers' higher health requirements and multi-flavor demand for food, Qiyunshan Company has successively launched Qiyunshan zero-added Nan Sour Jujube Cake, reduced sugar Nan Sour Jujube Cake, Nan Sour Jujube Grain and passion fruit/mango/ginger and other new products of Nan Sour Jujube Cake. It is understood that Qiyunshan Company will also launch a number of blockbuster new products in 2023.
31 years of spring and autumn, 31 years of stormy dreams. Looking back at the "counterattack" road of southern sour jujube from ancient times to the present, Qiyunshan Company, relying on the sweet and sour taste of Qiyunshan southern sour jujube cake and the characteristics of green natural and healthy products, has transformed the small southern sour jujube fruits hidden in the deep mountains from the initial unknown niche food into a nationally renowned and well-known characteristic wild fruit healthy snack, casting into a benchmark in the domestic and even the world's southern sour jujube food industry. In the future, it is expected that Qiyunshan Company will go farther and farther and more steadily on the road of expanding and strengthening the southern acid jujube industry and enriching the product categories and structure of the southern acid jujube industry, and compose a larger and broader "food generation" legend in the southern acid jujube industry!