This year's moon cake packaging popular simple and practical moon cake wars increasingly white

"Open the moon cake box has a tea drain, put it in the moon cake box can contain tea sets; moon cake box itself is a food box, can directly contact the food, can enter the refrigerator, can enter the microwave oven ... ..." from the Mid-Autumn Festival there More than 20 days, businesses have staged a "moon cake battle," prominent supermarkets occupied by moon cakes.

Reporters visited the past few days to find that, unlike in previous years, this year's moon cake packaging has taken a simple and practical style. The truffles and bacon moon cake produced at a cake shop made the above packaging instructions. In addition, the reporter found that most of the moon cake packaging this year is very simple. The moon cakes in the cardboard box or tin box are arranged very compactly. The moon cakes in the box are rarely used for independent packaging.

All kinds of price moon cake packaging are more "simple"

At the moment, the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 19th is only 20 days old, and the "moon cake war" on the market has already started. Reporters visited Carrefour, Wal-Mart Stores, and Jiarong restaurants in the downtown area for several days and discovered that moon cakes occupy prominent positions in major supermarkets. In addition, star hotels and cake shops are also the main force of the moon cake market.

The reporter observed that unlike previous years, the phenomenon of “box small moon cakes being small” and “wrapped layer by layer” was different. This year, moon cake packaging has taken a simple route, not only “small” in appearance, but also “inside the box.” Full."

The reporter selected a box of moon cakes of 200 yuan/box from five restaurants, including Daoxiang Restaurant, Hongyuan Hotel, Hong Kong Ronghua, Donghai Haidu, and Fengtai Garden Hotel. The results were found on the website and leaflet. Box moon cakes are packed in cartons or tin boxes, and the moon cakes in the boxes are arranged very compactly. The moon cakes in the four boxes are not packed in separate carton packs, that is, there are only two layers of packaging; and a gold leg in Winterthur Garden Hotel In the Wuren moon cake box, each moon cake also has independent transparent plastic and carton packaging, that is, the number of packaging layers is 3 layers.

In commercial moon cakes, 100~200 yuan is the main force. Reporter yesterday at Xiping Carrefour supermarket, observed 5 boxes of local well-known food factories in the price range of moon cake found that in addition to moon cakes in the 5 boxes, basically can not find too many gaps, and all have only 2 layers of packaging, in line with national standards.

Moon cake box can be used as a container

In the past, each year after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon cake boxes left over from the moon cake were beautifully used to put debris, but those with lesser quality were only thrown away. However, there have been some new and practical moon cake packages on the market this year.

"Open the moon cake box lid, and you will see a tea drain. Put the tea drain in the box in reverse and put it in the box. You can put the tea set in order to bring it..." Reporter produced truffle ham in a local chain cake shop yesterday. On the introduction of moon cakes, I saw the above packaging instructions.

In addition, this moon cake box can also be used as a container, good sealing, not easy to damp; and a music box with a level of music lock, can directly contact the food, drop, waterproof, use a special material, low temperature resistance, can be put Into the refrigerator; At the same time high temperature, can be placed in the microwave heating. The sales staff introduced that this "widely used" moon cake box was favored by customers. "Some people buy moon cakes for moon cake boxes."

In addition, the reporter Carrefour supermarket also saw a variety of moon cakes is a "box and gift bag combo" design: moon cake box at both ends of a pull rope, pull the rope can be a gift bag, gifts, then do not need to set another Gift bags, this design is practical and environmentally friendly.

Moon cake over packaging can dial 12365 complaints

It is reported that excessive packaging of moon cakes can easily lead to waste of resources and environmental pollution. Municipal Food and Drug Administration Food Division staff introduced April 1, 2010, China's first mandatory standard "restricted excessive packaging requirements of goods - food and cosmetics" began implementation. According to this standard, there are three main factors in judging whether the mooncake gift box is overpacked: the number of packaging layers must not exceed 3 layers (including 3 layers); the percentage of voids in mooncakes should not exceed 60%; the total of all packaging costs, except the initial packaging, must not exceed 20% of the product's selling price.

"Every year before the Mid-Autumn Festival, we will sample the moon cakes. Whether or not excessive packaging is one of the contents of the inspection." The staff member said that this year, the Bureau has conducted sampling inspections on the moon cakes produced by the enterprises in Dongguan. The relevant test results will be released after Announced on the website of the Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision.

"If citizens question the existence of excessive packaging of goods, they can call the 12365 Quality Supervision Hotline to report and lodge complaints." The staff member reminds people to look at the package and look at the net content of the product before purchasing moon cakes. For example, the packaging box for the goods is very large and the contents are effective. Rarely, there may be excessive packaging. “But whether or not the moon cake packaging is over-packed cannot be subject to subjective judgment, but should be based on scientific and standardized measurement and inspection.”