"In the food market, I clearly saw fresh and ruddy pork. Why didn’t the pork look so good when I got home?" Recently, Mr. Wang, a citizen of Nanjing, was very confused. "I wonder if I took the wrong meat."
Yangzi Evening News reporter visited many vegetable markets in Nanjing and found that it was the "pork beauty lamp" that disturbed consumers’ vision. Most pork stalls use beauty lamps with red lampshades, so the pork bought is pork with beauty function. In order to reduce the consumption conflict caused by color difference, the law enforcement officers of the market supervision bureau suggested that it should be adjusted to normal color light to prevent misleading consumers. Yangzi Evening News/Zi Niu News reporter Jiang Jingyi
Investigation on "Beauty Lamp"
It is difficult to correctly distinguish the quality of "beauty" pork.
The color is rosy, the meat is tender, the beauty lamp is on, and the pork on the meat stall makes people want to buy. The reporter visited many markets in Nanjing and found that almost every meat stall was hung with a beauty lamp, which has become the standard equipment of meat stalls. In addition to meat stalls, beauty lamps also appeared in chilled cabinets and stalls.
The so-called "pork beauty lamp" is also called "fresh lamp", and the red lampshade is made of patch lamp beads and plug-in lamp beads, mainly red light with cold white light. After opening an e-commerce platform and searching for "pork lamp", slogans such as "all good businesses are in use", "only rare enough to have business" and "good looking to sell" are very conspicuous. In the column of "Product Details", many merchants and shops have released the comparison pictures of the effects of not using "Beauty Lamp" and using "Beauty Lamp". The pork with "beauty lamp" seems to have been "skinned", "repaired" and "freckle", which is smooth and ruddy, while the pork under normal light is much darker.
Bright and red fresh lamps have brought troubles to consumers who buy pork. "All stalls are red, and you can’t see anything new unless you look outside." Ms. Hu from Yuhuatai District told the reporter that because of her rich experience in buying vegetables, every time she bought meat, she had to take a look at the vegetable area next to her.
Do not sell without "light"? Cooked food, seafood and vegetables should also be polished.
In a vegetable market, in addition to the "beauty lamp" hanging from the pork stall, there are also "beauty lamps" in chicken, hairy belly, cooked food and seafood stalls, but the colors are different. At a seafood stall selling hairtail, yellow croaker and other fish, hairtail looks particularly white and tender under the blue "beauty lamp", and there is almost no "spot" to pick. In sharp contrast, hairtail in the normal light of the booth next door has obvious markings. Several delicatessens at the entrance of the food market are also equipped with "beauty lights" with red light+white light and red light+yellow light.
Red light with warm white light illuminates cooked food, which is delicious; Red light with positive white light illuminates the fruit, which is twice as fresh; Green light with positive white light illuminates vegetables, which makes them greener; Red light with cold white light fish and shrimp, fresh and tender … … In the online stores of fresh lamps, the reporter saw that there are more than a dozen kinds of "beauty lamps" sold in each store, some even more than 20 kinds, including professional fruit lamps (red and white light), professional vegetable lamps (green and white light), professional cooked food lamps (red and warm light), professional chicken and duck meat lamps (red and white light), seafood lamps and so on. Different foods, different colors of lights. "Just like shooting and lighting, if the goods are not polished, they will not look good. If they are not good-looking, no one will buy them." Mr. Li, who sells fruit in jianye district, told reporters.
The market supervision bureau suggested
Adjust the light to normal color to make consumers see more realistically.
Giving food "beauty" has become a commonplace. Qiang Keyang, deputy director of Yuhua Branch of Yuhuatai District Market Supervision Administration in Nanjing, told reporters that regular farmers’ market merchants have legal business qualifications, purchase receipts and epidemic prevention inspection certificates. Beauty lamp does not mean that meat is not fresh, but it affects consumers’ choice when purchasing. People, especially middle-aged and elderly people, often cannot correctly distinguish the quality of pork when purchasing.
"I hope that the market organizers can change the color of the lights to normal white light in the follow-up management, so that consumers can be more realistic and more at ease when purchasing." Qiang Keyang reminded consumers to go to the regular supermarket when buying pork, and keep the shopping voucher. If there is any problem, you can call 12315 to make a complaint.
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High-quality pork is white, hard and fragrant. There is often a slightly dry film on the outside of the meat, which is compact and elastic, and the depression will recover immediately after finger pressing. The meat color of sub-fresh meat is darker than that of fresh meat, lacking luster, the fat is grayish white, the surface is sticky, slightly rancid and musty, the meat is soft and elastic, the concave can not be recovered in time after light pressing, the surface of the meat is wet after cutting, and turbid gravy will seep out. Deteriorated meat, on the other hand, is sticky, the surface is relatively dry, the color is grayish brown, the meat is soft and inelastic, and the concave can not be recovered after finger pressing, leaving obvious traces.
