Frequent problems in Ji'nan farmers' market: potato and potato refurbishment
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villagers are busy packing the refurbished potatoes.
for some time, people in recent years have reflected the purchase of "problem potatoes" by people who remember
. Most of these potatoes have the same "appearance": smooth appearance, several
no soil or a small amount of soil, short storage time and perishable. A few days after the reporter's investigation, it was found that some of the
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day before, Mr. Zhao, who lives near the mouth market of Ji'nan
to the market to buy vegetables, unintentionally see a middle-aged woman's stall, gather
a lot of people. "New potato, go back and try it!" Mr. Zhao didn't think much of it and bought a few jins of potatoes.
was prepared for a taste of fresh fruit. As a result, he went home to have a look.
Mr. Yan
also reflects that his wife had bought a similar dish in the community a few days ago. "Cheap, appearance light
slippery." Mr. Yan said that when his wife bought potatoes, he was called by a familiar peddlers. "Those potatoes are not good,
"I heard that this potato was smoked with sulphur." Ms. Liu, a citizen,
said that the new potato has just come down now, the price is very expensive, and the cheap and bright potato itself is doubtful about
. For the public to reflect the problem of potato, the reporter visited part of the wholesale market in Ji'nan
, almost four or five times the difference of potatoes, some of the reporters confused.
in Ji'nan Lixia District chessboard District
vegetable market, the reporter asked several merchants, the price of potatoes is about 1.8 yuan per catty. The reporter noticed that the surface of these
beans was smooth, and some of them were covered with a thin layer of soil. "This is a new potato. It's a good taste." A
booth owner enthusiastically introduced. At another booth, the stall owners were right, and the new potatoes in the market are still
in the Ji'nan calendar, the market of
and the Thousand Buddhas Shandong Road vegetable market, the reporter found that the retail price of potato is very different, some potatoes are 1.2 yuan
, and some potatoes are sold to 4 yuan per Jin. The peddlers claim that these potatoes are new potatoes. Ji'nan seven Li
Fort vegetable wholesale market, the wholesale price of potatoes from 7 cents per Jin to 2 yuan per Jin, according to the introduction, these
potatoes mostly from Tai'an, Zaozhuang and other places.
a vendor who doesn't want to be named told reporters that the new potatoes on the
market are now sheds potatoes with high prices, and some of the looks that look fresh and bright are actually
"water washed potatoes".
[b] source tracking.Gt;.Gt; water washing polishing, potato "to the old new
" [/b]
through multiple inquiries, the reporter learned that in Yicheng District of Zaozhuang, people have refurbished potato
, and it is "bright and aboveboard" in the village road to complete the process of washing, packing.
22, the reporter drove
to the village of Miaohou village, Yicheng District, Yicheng District, Zaozhuang. Before entering the village, she saw that the ground was full of potatoes. Under the guidance of the villagers'
the reporter came to a house in the center of the village to see in front of a house, the ground was covered with potatoes, and twenty or thirty village
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brush the potato brush inside the machine.
the potato on the ground looks fresh and bright
, the village woman will pick out the scarred potatoes before bagging. Beside the potatoes scattered on the ground, there are also nearly 100
wrapped potatoes. The potatoes inside the nylon bags are black, and some have sprouted.
near the processing point, the ditch is stacked with
blackened rotten potatoes. Several elderly people are picking up the potatoes that have not deteriorated.
Mr. Wang received a reporter from
which, according to him, came from Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang, and they washed
in the water here and in the market, it looked like a new potato.
there is a water pump on the scene. The pipe extends from the yard to the side of the road
, and below the pump is an iron machine. A few iron brushes are installed on the side of the machine. The reporter saw the process of refurbishing water
washing potatoes, pumping water directly into the machine, the old potatoes were loaded into the iron machine, the machine began to run
, and the iron brush rolled the potatoes.
before operation, the dark potato was brighter, and some sprouts
potatoes became smooth. The next step is to pack, and each farmer has a bucket with
filled with soil. The farmer first puts the potato in a plastic bag and then snatch a handful of soil into the plastic bag.
a
the housewife in this bag tells the reporter that the potato is packed before it is dry and sprinkled
on the loaded potatoes, so that the packaged potatoes are just as just plough out from the ground. "The soil bought by the self-employed person has been
. The farmer said.
[b] experts point out that eating the refurbished potato is easy to be poisoned by
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"washing the mud, which is equal to washing out a portion of the nutrients, and certainly not
for preservation." Wang Yuanxiu, an associate professor of medical and life sciences at the University of Jinan, said that after washing and refurbishing
potatoes, it is not only the loss of soil, but also the potato that has been sprouted into "no bud". New
fresh potatoes usually contain a small amount of Solanum base, which is harmless to the human body. But in the long storage process, the content of the Solanum
alkali content will increase. When the potato becomes black green or germinated, it will be poisoned after eating, and there is
symptoms such as abdominal pain and dizziness. The old potato after simple treatment is only the surface of the bud removed, and some green tubers may still be residual
with a Solanum, if you do not pay attention to the possibility of alkalosis, we should pay special attention.
, Wang Yuanxiu said, when the old and new potatoes alternate, do not exclude individual traders for economic benefits, in the water wash
add some cleaning substances, such as hydrogen peroxide, such as bleaching, then the body will produce direct dangerous
> > > > > br / > harm.
"washed potatoes? No, no. " Liu Shiqi, a professor and doctoral supervisor at Shandong Agricultural University and director of the Department of vegetable science,
said that water washed potatoes are easily rotten than normal potatoes, and if they eat a corrupt
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old potato (left), water washed potato (medium), New Potato (right).
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after hearing a large number of
quantities into potatoes, the village processing point owner said, "how much to have, guarantee supply." For potatoes, the source of
was Inner Mongolia from the beginning, and later changed to Heilongjiang.
can these potatoes be refurbished potatoes?
"anyway, I sell it to you for 6 cents a pound, but I don't care how you sell it." The boss whispered. After finishing
, the boss walked out of the room and showed the Chen potatoes that had already blackened to reporters. "What do you think? No problem,
processing point, he has a special source of goods, as long as the deposit, you can come to pick up the goods, "home well wash,
a day dozens of tons of no problem."
"the able people in the village began to work in Tengzhou, and then returned to the village.
a middle-aged woman who works for the boss, the boss has been in the village for 6 years, "when more,
can wash 50 tons a day."
in front of the potato washing machine, the reporter saw that there were some white
potatoes left at the machine exit, and the old potato in the bag was "two beans", glittering in the sun and shining
, the ground was filled with sewage and the soil washed by Chen potato.
temple village is a famous potato planting village, the village
nearly 10000 acres of land are planted potato. Now it is the season of the big shed potato listing, a large number of open-air potato listed and nearly
a month, and this has also become the main reason for the refurbishment of potatoes to occupy the market.
price, the new
fresh potato shed prices are around 1.7 yuan per Jin, while the price of the refurbishment of potatoes with similar appearance is about
6 per Jin. A villager told reporters that the phenomenon of water washing potatoes is more common this period of time, "open soil
beans mature after the price is six or seven cents a Jin, water washing potatoes are not worth it."
24 in the afternoon,
reporter contacted Mr. Xing of Inner Mongolia potato traders, according to Mr. Xing, they are now in stock of potatoes not
the potatoes were shipped to Shandong and Shanxi after the "refurbishment" in the way of water washing, while the time
was before a large number of new potatoes were on the market. Wen / film reporter Wang Qian Wu Jinbiao source Qilu late
newspaper)