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How long can moon cakes be preserved on the Mid Autumn Festival? How to keep moon cakes on Mid Autum

It's a tradition since ancient times to eat moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival. What kind of filling do you like? Xiaobian likes to eat moon cakes with five kernels and yolk, and other moon cakes are too greasy! How long is the shelf life of moon cakes? The shelf life of moon cakes is 20-90 days.

The shelf life of moon cakes is mainly affected by fillings and packaging. Generally, the moon cakes with fruit fillings can only be preserved for about one month. Sweet sugar fillings such as bean paste and red dates are slightly longer. The shelf life of ice skin moon cakes is the shortest, only 15-20 days. They need to be kept in the refrigerator.

Different brands of moon cakes have different shelf life. The longest shelf life is 90 days, the shortest is only a dozen days, and the other is marked with 45 or 60 days. Industry insiders said, because the baked mooncakes still remain.

Due to the fixed moisture and grease, the shelf life cannot be as long as that of dehydrated foods such as biscuits. The shelf life is restricted by many factors such as raw material quality, production environment, production equipment and packaging technology, especially the influence of production environment and packaging materials on the shelf life. The modern factory is carried out under aseptic conditions, and the pollution sources are eliminated. Therefore, the storage period of mooncakes produced and packaged in this environment is longer. However, the products produced by hand can reach the sanitary conditions, but can not reach the aseptic level, and will be infected with bacteria more or less. Therefore, even if the same packaging is used, the shelf life will be shortened.

How to keep moon cakes? It's best to keep them at normal temperature

The ingredients of the moon cake are complex. The raw materials include pasta, sugar, walnut, sesame, and some contain cream, fruits and vegetables. There are many flavors of the moon cake and various fillings. This determines that the moon cake is a very difficult food to preserve. Therefore, the language sickness should be kept in a low temperature, ventilated, cool and dry place, and it needs to be stored separately to avoid rapid corruption.

Refrigerator preservation

Some mooncakes can't be stored directly at room temperature and are easy to be rotten. They need to be stored in the refrigerator, such as ice skin mooncakes, fresh meat filled mooncakes, etc., and they need to be packed with fresh-keeping film to control the temperature of the refrigerator, which should not be too low.

Note: the main ingredient of moon cake is starch. At low temperature, starch will age quickly, harden and taste worse.

Isolated preservation

Moon cake belongs to sweet food with strong flavor and strong attraction to cockroaches and rats. Therefore, moon cake must be stored in isolation from rats and cockroaches. It can also be stored together with tangerine peel and pepper to prevent moon cake from being damaged or polluted.