CCTV exposed the "6 major fruit scams", and the first place was purely an IQ tax, and baby cabbage was surprising

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preface

Have you heard of the recent "Tibetan pear"? It is said that it was originally a type of ordinary pear, but after some marketing by merchants, its value has increased more than tenfold.

But in fact, the characteristics of plateau specialties and rich anthocyanins mentioned by the merchants are all fake, and once this false propaganda was exposed, it caused many people to be angry.

Tibetan pear

As the heat of the matter continues to rise, CCTV News has also published a special video exposing the "fruit scam", so let's take a look at whether there are any fruits you often buy!

Fruits and vegetables

In the video released by CCTV, we can see that the first place in the "fruit scam" is the fruit broccoli, which is actually cutting the large broccoli.

Then after some marketing, the merchant said that this broccoli contains a lot of dietary fiber, and eating one is equivalent to eating a dozen bananas.

broccoli

But in fact, this statement is all deceptive, and these merchants will even use some normal broccoli that grows very small as fruit broccoli, and finally sell it to consumers at a high price.

This behavior is really too insulting to the intelligence of consumers, but in fact, there are many more marketing strategies like this, such as mini carrots, fruit bell peppers, etc.

After some popular science by CCTV, we learned that the original mini carrot method is also very simple and the cost is very low.

broccoli

It is a worker who cuts an ordinary-sized carrot into a small carrot, and then through the marketing of the merchant, the value has directly increased dozens of times.

But it is essentially the same as ordinary carrots, so when you buy fruits and vegetables, you must keep your eyes open and don't be deceived by the false propaganda of merchants.

Mini carrots

Marketing scams

After reading the above fruit and vegetable scams, you may feel very angry and feel that these merchants are too unconscionable, but in fact, compared with the following merchants, you can really say that the above ones are relatively good.

I don't know if you have ever bought the fruit "Explosive Peach", it is actually an ordinary cracked winter peach, this season is the time when the winter peach is on the market, but the cracking rate of this fruit is very high, so the merchant began to publicize it with a conscience in order to make more money.

Internet celebrity fruit "Explosive Peach"

Cracked fruit peach turned into an Internet celebrity fruit "explosive peach", and many netizens felt a little novel after seeing this name, so they wanted to buy it and try it.

But what we don't know is that these exploding peaches are actually defective products of winter peaches, and they basically can't be sold in the orchard.

Moldy winter peaches with cracks

It is worth mentioning that when you buy this kind of peach, if you find that there is mildew in the crack, you must not eat it.

In addition, have you ever bought the Internet celebrity fruit "Golden Prune"? In fact, this fruit scam is the most unbearable.

According to the CCTV anchor, this fruit is made of small peaches, and in order to make these small peaches look good and delicious, a lot of things have been added to it, so everyone must be careful.

Ginsime scam

In particular, merchants directly turn bad small fruits into Internet celebrity fruits and sell them, and they will definitely not think about adding some good things, which is very harmful to human health, you can imagine.

Compared with Jin Ximei, the merchants of wild kiwifruit still have a little conscience, at least they just package ordinary kiwifruit in a wild state, and do not add anything extra to it.

Netizen comments

In fact, let's think about it, since the kiwi fruit is wild, then it will definitely not exist in large quantities, and you must know that wild food is particularly time-consuming and laborious to pick.

And many scenic spots have raised a lot of animals, if these wild fruits are picked, then what do these animals eat?

"Wild Kiwi"

In addition to these fruits, there is also a recent Internet celebrity fruit called "Chili Mango", which is characterized by its very thin pit, about the size of a toothpick.

But in fact, this fruit is not a new variety of mango, but evolved from the mango, it belongs to the kind of mango that does not grow well, growing in places where the sun is not shining, so it grows very small.

Later, some merchants thought that it was about the same size as a chili pepper, so they came up with such a solution, I have to say, this person is still very good at marketing, and compared with other fruit scams, this is still slightly better.

Chilli mango

Now that CCTV has exposed these fruit scams, it has quickly aroused discussions among many netizens, and everyone has expressed their opinions in the comment area.

Netizens are hotly discussed

After watching this video, some netizens asked in the comment area who bought the fruit broccoli, which is an IQ tax.

As soon as the netizen above finished laughing, he saw someone below say, "What am I who bought a bunch of fruit broccoli?" Am I rich? ”

Comment section

I have to say that this is directly full of comedy effects, and this netizen who bought fruit broccoli is still relatively pitiful, spending so much money and only eating ordinary broccoli.

But some netizens were glad to say that fortunately they didn't advertise themselves, and some people only knew about the fruit broccoli after watching this video.

I suddenly feel that there are still many benefits to living in a third- or fourth-tier small city, at least these businesses can't deceive themselves with exaggerated marketing.

Comment section

After watching this video, some netizens have begun to summarize the merchant scams, such as fruit bell peppers, fruit cucumbers, fruit tomatoes, wild kiwi ......

I suddenly felt that in order to make money, the merchants also thought of a lot of ways to market some ordinary vegetables that everyone usually eats into fruits and vegetables, and then sell them at a high price, which is really too "genius".

Netizen summary

epilogue

Through this incident, we can see that merchants are really "smart", and they can always think of some strange tricks to coax consumers.

Even some merchants don't care about the lives of consumers in order to make money, and directly package bad food and sell it at a high price, and they are not afraid that their conscience will be disturbed, and they will have nightmares when they sleep at night.

Difference Between Baby Cabbage and Chinese Cabbage

However, from this report, we can know that baby cabbage is actually not a marketing scam, and there is still a slight gap between it and ordinary Chinese cabbage, but if you don't deliberately pursue the taste of baby cabbage, then Chinese cabbage is actually very good.

Finally, what do you think about this matter? Have you ever come across a merchant scam like this?

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Information source:

1. CCTV News, 2025.03.27, doxxing "fruit scam", be careful of being charged IQ tax

2. Huanqiu.com, 2025-03-25, doxxing "fruit scam"! These "IQ tax" fruits to know