Tenth: Shark fin
One of the "Four Great Delicacies" in ancient China, the third delicacies of "Hai Bazhen" have been world-renowned aristocratic ingredients since ancient times, and are known for their scarce production, rich nutrition and high price.
But is shark fin really nutritious?
Experts believe that. Shark fin is actually a kind of food made from the cartilage in the shark's fin and dried. More than 120 million sharks are hunted globally every year to eat shark fins. But such a bloody ingredient is always a fog in terms of its nutritional value alone.
From the perspective of modern nutrition, shark fin is no different from ordinary fish jelly and meat jelly, but its price is as high as hundreds or even thousands of yuan per bowl, and the low cost performance is shocking. Therefore, the collagen in shark fin is not a high-quality protein. Bottom line: The nutritional value of shark fin is overestimated. Some doctors even said that the nutritional value of a bowl of shark fin is not as good as a carton of milk, 2 eggs, or even a piece of braised pig's trotters at a roadside stall.
In recent years, shark fin is on the wane with the awakening of environmental awareness and attention to healthy eating. The environmental impact of food production and consumption is beginning to be examined, and the bloodshed and cruelty revealed by shark fin production and harvesting is staggering. This primitive mode of production has the potential to cause devastating damage to fragile marine ecosystems. As a result, more and more consumers are choosing to reject shark fin in favor of more environmentally friendly food options.
But I boycott shark fin is an exception, I am poor because I am poor.
Ninth: Bird's Nest
。 Bird's nest was once a classic representative of the top delicacies in ancient China, along with abalone, sea cucumber and shark fin, constituting the list of the four traditional Chinese cuisines. The scarcity of bird's nest has made it a tribute to the royal family of our Celestial Dynasty in ancient times, and it is a symbol of the status of the privileged class, so it is named "Guanyan".
As early as the Ming Dynasty, bird's nest was all the rage among the elite class at that time. Later, all major cuisines also quickly integrated it into the cooking of dishes, including clear soup swallow dishes in Shandong cuisine, hibiscus swallow dishes in Sichuan cuisine, and double swallows in Hui cuisine. However, in recent years, the supremacy of bird's nest has been challenged. Some Internet celebrities sold "bird's nest" in the live broadcast room, but unfortunately overturned, and it was revealed that the actual ingredient of the bird's nest he sold was only brown sugar water, but this was not the root cause of the bird's nest falling off the altar.
Nutritionists have questioned the actual nutritional value of bird's nest, and they believe that, to put it mildly, the protein content of bird's nest is not as good as the meat and eggs we eat every day! To say that bird's nest is a "panacea" is an exaggeration.
Of course, the most important thing is that with the increase in the production of bird's nest, the situation that was once hard to find a bird's nest has now been completely reversed. Don't you see, are the streets full of bird's nest specialty stores? Don't you see, the elevator room is full of advertisements for celebrity-endorsed bird's nest products?
The sky-high price of bird's nest fell into the dust.
Eighth: Ginseng
Ginseng, one of the "Nine Great Immortal Grasses" in ancient times, is known as the "King of Herbs". In the long ancient society, ginseng has always been the top nourishing product, and has been collected by generations of doctors to help the world.
Ginseng has extremely strict requirements for the growth environment, likes cold, moisture, shade resistance, avoids strong light exposure, soil, temperature, light, humidity, ventilation and other factors will affect the growth of ginseng and determine its quality. As the "king of herbs", ginseng production is scarce, mainly distributed in the deep mountains and old forests around Changbai Mountain in Jilin.
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In recent years, there has been a boom in the cultivation of ginseng at the foot of Changbai Mountain. Not only are the local people keen to participate, but some domestic traditional Chinese medicine giants, such as Kangmei Pharmaceutical and Correction Pharmaceutical, have also entered the game, bringing huge sums of money to lay out the upstream planting field of ginseng. At the foot of Changbai Mountain, in the area of Ji'an and Tonghua, the Qianmu base and the 10,000-mu base have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The sharp increase in production has pulled the high ginseng off the horse.
However, it is affordable to buy, but what about the nutritional value? Ginseng grown in a greenhouse, is it really ginseng? What's worse is that growers blindly expand the planting area in order to maximize profits, resulting in the uneven quality of today's ginseng.
China is the first country in the world to discover and eat ginseng, and it is also the birthplace of ginseng culture. But now in the international market,. Once upon a time, China's long-white ginseng also beat Korean ginseng.
It's really a phoenix that turns into a chicken, and the boss is sad.
Seventh: Garlic you ruthless, ginger you army
Beans you play, garlic you ruthless, ginger you army.
In fact, the most unsettling thing for the common people is the speculation on the prices of agricultural products. After all, these things are too far away from ordinary people, but agricultural products are different, and they have to be eaten and bought every day.
More than ten years ago, in the main production areas of green onions, ginger and garlic, some speculators with heavy money in their hands.
Back then, in Jinxiang County, Shandong, a place known as "Garlic Wall Street", "fried garlic" was not a secret. Many speculators have made their fortunes overnight through the age-old game of hoarding. Under the manipulation of these behind-the-scenes, the price of garlic has soared like a "monkey". A garlic merchant said: ". And he is just a small household in the circle, and some large households have funds as high as hundreds of millions.
The garlic merchant said that he had stocked 200 tons of garlic the year before, and when he harvested it, it was 5 yuan/kg, and the price of selling it in the next year had risen to 12 yuan/kg, making a net profit of 5 yuan per kilogram. Another garlic merchant regretted that he did not invest in garlic that year:
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Sixth: black sesame paste
Is black sesame paste really black sesame seeds? A lot of people don't know. However, for merchants, it's right to be unclear, you have figured it out, how can I cut your leeks?
Black sesame paste, don't look at this product on the outside, but there are a lot of "secrets" hidden inside. In fact, most people believe that black sesame paste is the crushed version of black sesame seeds, so the nutritional value of black sesame seeds is also available, or even higher.
Some businesses smelled the business opportunity and began to advocate the nutritional value and efficacy of black sesame paste, such as... even concocted a bizarre folklore, claiming. It really blew all the fish in the river to the shore.
However, although the performance traces are very heavy, and the techniques are relatively primitive and clumsy, the marketing effect is surprisingly good. In this way, black sesame paste, which was originally an ordinary food, has ascended to the throne of "elixir of immortality". But what about the truth? The truth is: the main ingredient of black sesame paste is not black sesame seeds, but is made from high-calorie and high-sugar raw materials such as white sugar and rice.
Black sesame paste is a small calorie bomb.
Fifth: mung beans
In the mainland, it seems that every once in a while, something will be pushed up the altar, and after a few years, it will fall off the altar, and the cycle will start over and over again, rising endlessly. In the eyes of some people, isn't this a big deal about sesame mung beans! Okay, let's talk about mung beans after talking about sesame.
To say that sesame seeds are a joke, Mung Bean smiled slightly, thinking: "How old are you guys!" Back then, the chattering master Zhang Wuben gave a health lecture on TV and blew mung beans into the sky. With the master's words, mung beans, an ingredient that is no matter how loose it is, the gears of fate began to turn in an instant.
Zhang Wuben
Zhang Wuben's masterpiece
In fact, mung beans have been grown in China for more than 2,000 years, and the price has always been stable. But around 2010, Zhang Wuben, the self-proclaimed "first person in China's dietary therapy", said in the health program: ". Thereupon.
From ginger to your army, to garlic you are ruthless, and then to beans you play. The story is changing, but the leeks have not changed. The scythe, of course, has not changed.
Thinking back to the streets of Beijing that year, old men and old ladies lined up to buy mung beans, the sun was shining and the atmosphere was warm.
Fourth: okra
The story of okra in China is reminiscent of another vegetable that was also a smash hit: red cabbage. This kind of "foreigner", originally from India, did not enter China until the beginning of the 20th century, but it was initially unknown in the land. In 2008, okra became a "special vegetable" for the Beijing Olympic Games, and became a dish for athletes around the world, making it famous. At the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, okra once again became a "special dish for the Olympic Games" and began to ascend to the altar.
As a result, some businesses smelled the business opportunities of wealth, and these people used their usual operating ideas. Such outrageous publicity, of course, is all aimed at raising the price of okra to the sky and making huge profits.
Sure enough, the okra that turned out to be a few yuan/catty turned into a monkey in an instant, and the price soared all the way, and at the peak, it rose to a staggering 30 yuan/catty, and ordinary people couldn't afford it.
However, the good times were short-lived. Soon after, the media began to expose that the nutritional value of okra was over-exaggerated, and even some experts who usually like to turn a blind eye could not stand it anymore and jumped out to clarify the truth. As a result, the price bubble of okra burst quickly, and it plummeted to 6 cents per catty at the worst time.
The growers who expanded production in the early stage had no return and wanted to cry without tears.
Third: black pepper
Historically, pepper, especially black pepper, has been so expensive that it will make your jaw drop. There was a famous prime minister in the Tang Dynasty named Yuan Zhen, who was directly sentenced by the emperor Lao'er to behead the whole family because he hid hundreds of sacks of pepper at home. It sounds like a joke, but in fact it really reflects the rarity and price of pepper at the time.
Ancient pepper is not only a condiment, but also a top luxury, even more expensive than gold. Someone on the Internet has also converted the pepper embezzled by Yuan Zhen to the present, which is almost 20 billion yuan.
In medieval Europe, pepper was comparable to gold. Just imagine, on the day when you spend candles in the cave room, your father-in-law takes out a black pepper and says to you, "Virtuous son-in-law, this is the dowry I have prepared for my daughter, please accept it with a smile." "What should you do?
In the 16th century, Europeans ushered in the Age of Discovery, one of the most magnificent seafaring events in human history. Their original intention was not to look for gold, but to find cheaper pepper and other spices.
Second: Ejiao
There is an old saying in ancient times: "The skin of a donkey is blown out". This is very suitable for today's Ejiao.
When it comes to Ejiao, everyone must be familiar with it, this is our traditional Chinese tonic product, which was already famous as early as the Qin and Han dynasties. Ancient doctors praised Ejiao for its good blood tonic effect, and such a good reputation was passed on for two thousand years.
However, for a long time, Ejiao was mainly prevalent in Shandong and Hebei, and people in other regions did not seem to be interested in it and knew little about it. Therefore, the price of Ejiao has been as stable as an old dog for many years, and has always remained at about 40 yuan per catty. However, later, some merchants took a fancy to the potential of Ejiao and began to hype it. At this time, Ejiao's reputation spread all over the country, and the price soared all the way to 3,000 yuan per catty.
Recently.. Now that the fryer is in the pan, Ejiao's reputation that has been accumulated with great difficulty has been hit hard. Although this blog post was later deleted, the price of Ejiao began to loosen, from a high of 3,000 yuan/catty, and no one wanted 200 yuan/catty at the worst time. Of course, now the price of ejiao is starting to resurgence again.
From "blood tonic holy product" to "boiled donkey skin", Ejiao is still the same Ejiao, but times have changed.
First: tangerine peel
After talking about donkey skin, let's move on to tangerine peel. Last year, the TV series "Hurricane" was on the air, in which the gangster Gao Qiqiang drank tangerine peel in the villa every day, and said that tangerine peel is a good thing and should be drunk often. Brother Qiang's Amway, directly let the tangerine peel out of the circle.
In 2016, as soon as the bubble of Pu'er tea burst, some speculators with a sense of smell more than a dog's nose couldn't wait to focus on the tangerine peel of Guangdong Xinhui. From cordyceps sinensis to aged pu'er, from dendrobium to Tibetan mastiff, these sickles are really non-stop.
The routine of hyping tangerine peel is the same as the previous speculation of Pu'er, first hoarding spot, and then in the media.
It is reflected in the price of tangerine peel, which is the same every year. Originally 30-50 yuan/catty, it soon soared to hundreds of yuan, then 300/jin, 500/jin, and 800 yuan/jin at the peak, seriously deviating from the actual value, and even appeared "hard to find" hot scene. The 15-year-old tangerine peel has been fried from 200 yuan/jin a few years ago to 1,800 yuan/jin, and the 20-year-old tangerine peel has already exceeded 3,000 yuan/jin. In the circle of tangerine peel, there has always been a saying:.
"If the heavens want it to perish, they must first make it crazy." How long can crazy tangerine peel be hot? Only time will tell.
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