Yangtze Evening News, February 18 (Reporter Liu Liyuan) As soon as the Spring Festival passed, it was the season for Nanjing people to eat "seven heads and one brain", and the reporter found that wild vegetables such as shepherd's cabbage, grass head, and pea head had already been on the market, and this year's toon ** dropped significantly, and the lowest sold to 495 yuan a catty, only half of the same period in previous years.
Red toon is sold for half the price last year.
In a fresh food supermarket in Hexi, Nanjing, the label of "spring vegetables" in the refrigerated vegetable section is particularly eye-catching. The reporter noticed that the shepherd's cabbage and Ma Lantou on the shelves were sold out and out of stock, and the grass and pea heads were not sold out, and the grass head was 230g a pack priced at 599 yuan, pea head for 200g a pack of 88 yuan, which is more than ten yuan a catty. On the other hand, toon is different from other spring vegetables with its "best advantage", and expensive vegetables such as asparagus are placed in one place. However, this year's toon ** is significantly lower than last year, in the fresh supermarket, the price of 100g packaging of red toon is 99 yuan, which is equivalent to 495 yuan a catty, compared with 100-130 yuan a catty last year, can be regarded as close to the people.
At a farmers' market in Pukou, the price of newly marketed red toons ranges from 50 to 60 yuan per catty. Why is the price reduced? A stall owner speculated that the first crop of toon mainly came from Yunnan and other places, last year's early spring Yunnan cold wave, precipitation and other reasons led to a decrease in the number of toons on the market, soaring, even rose to 200 yuan a pound in early March, this year's early spring, the climate is suitable, the local planting scale may also be expanded, the amount of ** is large.
Even if it is cut in half, the toon at around 50 yuan per catty is still much higher than other vegetables. This has to say that the toon ** annual "roller coaster" type changes - from mid-February to mid-March, ** is very high, and in April, it suddenly fell below 20 yuan, which has a lot to do with the origin and variety. The leaves of the red toon on the market are tender and shiny, and it is a variety with a very strong toon flavor, which germinates earlier but grows quickly, and it is gone after eating this stubble. And the green toon that went on the market in April, as well as the "Four Seasons Toon" that appeared in the past two years, has a relatively long listing period, but the fragrance is not as strong as the red toon, so it is low. The smell of toon is more special, people have obvious polarization of its likes and dislikes, for those who like it, of course, they would rather spend **, but also taste the freshness of the red toon.
In addition, due to the strong aroma of red toon, fried and stir-fried can still retain its taste, while green toon has a lighter smell, which is suitable for cold dishes such as toon tofu and so on. Every year, it is important to note that toon is a vegetable with a high nitrite content, and no matter which cooking method is used, it should be blanched in boiling water first to reduce the nitrite content.
Proofread by Li Haihui.