Ji'nan: a vegetable dumped 22 water vendors: sprinkling for fresh keeping
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Qilu Evening News author Meng Yan Liu Hao Tao Qingjuan
11 days, some citizens show to reporters that the vegetables in the market are widely sprinkled, especially the continuous rain in these days let the vegetables become more "drenched", a dish can be dumped. Come out of 22 water.
"it's hot, and I often see vendors spray water on vegetables." These two days to buy vegetables, pick up one to be able to throw 22 water. Mr. LAN often buys vegetables in the market of seven Li Bao. He complains that such a dish can not only be weighed, but also can't be bought home.
in the chessboard community vegetable market, Mr. Qi also reflected that the dishes he bought had rotted all night, and he analyzed that it was related to hot water. "Now buy vegetables with mud, and the water dripping is afraid of being blistered."
11 at 10 a.m. in the Seven Mile Fort vegetable market, vegetables on many vendors' stalls were sprinkled with water. The reporter picked up a handful of celery and threw a lot of water. "These two days, it rains and the water is much, but it's fresh." Mr. Liu, a vegetable vendor, said that in summer, it is very common to sprinkle water to ensure fresh vegetables. After picking vegetables, there are lots of dust and dirt on them. They will also be washed with water. "Sprinkling is for fresh keeping, selling looks good, dry and shrunken looks not fresh, can not sell price."
"no water sprinkled, the dishes shriveled at noon." Mr. Wang, owner of a meat restaurant in the provincial capital, said he usually sprayed some water with a small watering pot. Most leafy vegetables sprayed water for a while. Eggplants, cucumbers and kidney beans sprayed water, but spinach and green peppers could not spray water. "In summer, we eat less vegetables, and leafy vegetables enter a few days a day. We dare not go in more. All the dishes are sold on the same day." Mr. Wang said that the wastage rate of vegetables in summer is relatively high, about 20%, and the rotten ones are thrown away directly. "Some traders can't sell the dishes that they sell on the same day, but they will rot faster after they are done."
Liu Weiguo, director of the planting Department of Ji'nan Agricultural Bureau, said that when the weather is hot, vegetables, especially leafy vegetables, are difficult to preserve, and some leafy vegetables are kept fresh for only one day. "In order to keep vegetables fresh and sell well in the course of transportation and trafficking, it is no exception to spray vegetables on vegetables." He stressed that the possibility of "pickled vegetables" is not large, because once vegetables are soaked, they rot faster. He suggested that the public could ask vendors to throw away the water before weighing them.