Friday, February 08, 2013

Melon seeds of foul play


Taiping street market is the largest in anhui province seeds wholesale market, here sales of a variety of melon seeds, much consumer favorite. The vendors to introduce for us, these seeds are local processing, and other local production of melon seeds comparison, compared to look good, because color is bright, and not easy to be affected with damp become soft, so has been sold very well.



In bengbu delicious roasted seeds and nuts factory the reporter sees, warehouse is used for processing of raw materials, melon seeds fall above filled with dust. (empty mirror) the boss told us, they are processing is pumpkin seed. A worker is to cook melon seeds of pot fall into a kind of white powder things.

    
Reporter: you put what is this stuff
Worker: alum
Reporter: you this pot put how many alum
Worker: how many put casually
According to the workers is introduced, with alum cooked melon seeds is in order to make the melon seeds is not easy to be affected with damp become soft, keep good taste.




How to identify:
Melon seeds production technology experts to Ming Joe: consumer is buying seeds, how to identify the high quality seeds and add the talcum powder, paraffin of melon seeds? Take the watermelon seed farther than anyone else at speaking, we first look at its appearance, high quality watermelon seed intermediate color is yellow, all around are black, two color line is very clear, inferior products it often surface color, at the same time, some vague with talcum powder, paraffin wax seeds? He surface and white crystal (content), so it will have a more slippery feel. Let's do an experiment, here are two pile of melon seeds, when we slowly raise the flat, when the plate to 45 degrees, talcum powder a pile of melon seeds (slide) down, but a good seeds it or not moving.


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