When it comes to the word tangerine peel, people who know how to do it will invariably replace the word gold. Is the saying "one tael of tangerine peel and one tael of gold" true? Can a mere peel be so valuable? I believe that many people do not understand the true value of tangerine peel, and this morning flight will take you to understand one or two.
"1000-year-old ginseng, 100-year-old tangerine peel", the price of tangerine peel is worthy of its name
At the beginning of this year, in order to give his daughter a marriage, a Guangdong father deliberately took out the tangerine peel that he had treasured for 20 years as his daughter's dowry. Judging from the photos at the scene, these tangerine peels were well preserved in transparent sealed jars, and all the tangerine peels combined weighed 60 kilograms. As soon as this incident came out, it immediately alarmed many people from other provinces, although the father's love for his daughter is undoubted, but some foreign netizens wondered: Can just tangerine peel really hold up the façade of the dowry?
In this regard, many Guangdong locals have come forward to say that it has always been a local tradition to use tangerine peel for marriage. In addition, tangerine peel is not an ordinary thing, and its value is comparable to that of gold.
According to the disclosure of "New Weekly", the top tangerine peel can be auctioned for a sky-high price of 2 million yuan, even if the price is so high, there are still many businessmen and collectors who flock to it. The tangerine peel with high quality, long life and scarcity characteristics is often the object of capital profit-seeking, and has a price but no market. When it comes to where the quality of tangerine peel is the best, Guangdong Xinhui tangerine peel can win the throne. Xinhui tangerine peel is a local specialty, since ancient times, the peel has been valued and the pulp has been despised for the plant, and its plant essence is all concentrated on a single peel.
Guangdong Xinhui tangerine peel is famous all over the country and has formed a huge industrial scale in the local area. It is understood that as early as 2015, the annual output value of Xinhui's tangerine peel industry is quite abundant, and it has exceeded 5 billion yuan. In 2017, the output of Xinhui tangerine peel citrus tea reached an astonishing 8,000 tons, creating many jobs for local employment, and its whole industry output value exceeded 6 billion yuan, which effectively helped the local economy to generate income.
It is understood that the older the tangerine peel is, the more valuable it is, and a pound of high-quality and aged Xinhui tangerine peel for 10 years can be sold at a price of 2,000 yuan per catty. The comprehensive benefits of tangerine peel are extremely high, some people like to use it as a spice, and some people like to use tangerine peel as a condiment to enhance the umami of dishes.
There are also people who like to use tangerine peel to make tea, a cup of belly is both appetizing and spleen-invigorating. In fact, the most important value of tangerine peel, which is homologous to medicine and food, is medicinal. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tangerine peel has extremely superior effects on regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and dissolving phlegm, as well as improving the body's immunity and body functions. In the hearts of the ancients, the value of tangerine peel was comparable to ginseng, and until now, high-quality tangerine peel is also unique in the eyes of modern people.
Is a self-dried orange peel a tangerine peel?
At first glance, orange peels and tangerine peels look similar, and the vast rural areas of the south have always had the habit of collecting orange peels to make tea, soup, and porridge. Some people are curious, is the orange peel collected and dried by themselves considered tangerine peel? If so, can it be sold for a high price? First of all, although tangerine peel and orange peel are both fruit peels, tangerine peel is expensive in the word "Chen", and tangerine peel is the same origin of medicine and food, which has both edible value and medicinal value, and belongs to a traditional Chinese medicine.
Regarding the "Chen" of tangerine peel, scientists have found that the longer the storage life of tangerine peel, the more hesperidin it contains, and the corresponding more medicinal value. In the traditional Chinese medicine market, the longer the storage life, the more expensive the price is, and sometimes there will even be a situation where there is no market, after all, the value of tangerine peel is "boiled" by time.
In appearance, orange peel, which is highly similar to tangerine peel, can be confused, but orange peel is not the same as tangerine peel. Tangerine peel is the peel of an orange and is extensive. Although tangerine peels are also produced from the peel of oranges, they have absolute particularities.
The particularity of tangerine peel needs to be accurate to a specific geographical range, a specific variety, and even under a specific environment and conditions, and can only be formed after aging. In addition, after drying through the above links, tangerine peel has a special smell and taste, and can exert medicinal effects.
The formation of tangerine peel is extremely complex, while the folk drying orange peel is relatively simple, only the peel needs to be peeled from the citrus fruit. On the other hand, orange peels, which are widely sourced and easy to dry, are well received by the people, but they do not have high medicinal value like tangerine peels, as well as strong storage value and appreciation space.
Since tangerine peel has been in the hot market, no matter the quality and specification of tangerine peel has a great market demand, unscrupulous businessmen will use orange peel to pass off as tangerine peel in order to confuse and deceive consumers. Some consumers who do not know what to do are easy to fall into the trap of merchants, which leads to irrational consumption. So how to distinguish tangerine peel from orange peel to avoid being deceived?
First of all, it is necessary to distinguish from the smell, and orange peels are easy to distinguish due to their common in life. Tangerine peel, on the other hand, is unique in smell due to its biological activity. Tangerine peel with a long storage time will give off a fresh and pleasant smell, while tangerine peel with a short storage time will emit a more spicy smell and its strong smell lingers.
Secondly, we can observe the cross-section meaningfully, tangerine peel contains a relatively small and fine oil chamber, that is, a yellow dot-like substance, but orange peel is not. In addition, after long-term storage and aging, tangerine peel will have a more uniform color, darker color, and more fine lines.
Is it better to store tangerine peel for as long as possible?
Combined with the market demand and market demand, the real price of tangerine peel is higher than that of gold, and it can be sold at a high price, which is very valuable for investment. But is it true that the longer the storage life of tangerine peel, the better?
According to relevant studies, with the extension of the storage life of tangerine peel, although the pharmacological components will become stronger and stronger, the volatile oil content will decrease. Therefore, if you want tangerine peel to exert its normal medicinal effect, the storage period should be about 3 years.
However, from the perspective of collection and value-added, the market still prefers tangerine peel with long storage life and excellent quality. Especially in Guangdong, where tangerine peel is used as a dowry or passed down from generation to generation, the stored tangerine peel is naturally "the older it is, the more fragrant it is". People's pursuit of tangerine peel, with the promotion of the market and changes in supply and demand, in areas that like tangerine peel, it is the habit of hoarding tangerine peel. As long as it is a high-quality and flavorful tangerine peel, it can enter the magic eye of the "army of hoarding tangerine peel".
With the advancement of biotechnology and medical technology, more and more synthetic drugs have emerged that can be comparable to the medicinal effects of ginseng and tangerine peel. However, in the eyes of tangerine peel lovers, pure natural and original tangerine peel is more trustworthy, and has more storage and inheritance value. What do you think about tangerine peel? Welcome to leave a message for interaction.