Soil eggs are not "soil" farmers: the market is only 10% soil eggs are true

Before and after the Spring Festival, walking with family members and visiting family and friends is a custom inherited by generations of Chinese ancestors. Recently, many people in Shijiazhuang reported to this newspaper that the festival gift market has a dazzling array of varieties. There are nearly ten patterns in an egg market. Soil eggs, stupid eggs, firewood eggs, grain eggs, egg cleaning, and vitamin eggs ... These eggs that are playing "new concepts" are really eye-catching. What is the difference between this "egg" and his "egg"? Is it really high in nutritional value as advertised? The reporter conducted a visit.

Market: Eggs are a myriad of people's names. Yesterday, the reporter visited a number of supermarkets in the provincial capital. In the egg food sales area, different kinds of gift boxed eggs were found high, and a large number of buyers were gathered next to them.

The reporter saw that the name of these eggs was also varied, including cleaning eggs, early egg production, grain eggs, earth eggs, firewood eggs, and stupid eggs.... It took no less than 10 varieties. The name of the egg was called "Western style" and its worth was more than double that of ordinary eggs. Take the stupid eggs produced in a county around Shijiazhuang as an example. 60 boxes are sold at prices ranging from RMB53 to RMB68. The Purchasing Guide told reporters: “A stupid egg in a box of 53 yuan is a promotional price. Yesterday I went to buy a box and sell it for 65 yuan. This egg is selling well and will be restored to the original price tomorrow. If you want to buy it, you can get rid of it quickly. No this shop."

In addition to stupid eggs, eggs such as chai, earth and farm eggs are also placed in the obvious location of the sales area for sale. With 45 pieces and 60 pieces, the price is also between 50 and 60 yuan. An average of one dollar.

In Hubei, a company’s production of grain eggs and initial egg production price is “higher and higher”. 69 eggs filled with 90.7 yuan per box, under the name "clean film, UV sterilized," the best selling eggs in a box of 60 asking price as high as 97.7 yuan. In other words, it costs 1.6 yuan to buy an egg.

Investigation: The eggs that are grown under the chicken that eats the pepper are more delicious?

Earth eggs, firewood eggs, stupid eggs, farm eggs in the end where? Why is it so much higher than regular eggs?

A supermarket guide of the provincial capital faced reporters' questions and asked three questions. “Functions are written on the packaging box. You can see for yourself. These egg sales go very fast. Some people also single out your expensive purchase.” The guidebook added, "The price is high, naturally it will not be worse."

In the Yudong Market, a relatively "professional" explanation given by the owner is that eggs, chopped eggs, and stupid eggs are eggs laid by farmers in free-range chickens, compared to chickens that concentrate on eating and feeding. The source of food is more varied and the nutritional value of eggs produced is even higher. However, the boss also admits that the above four kinds of eggs are just different names, in fact, about the same nutritional value. As for many consumers who called out "preciously outrageous" at the beginning of production, the owner stated that it should be the first batch of eggs produced by a chicken after a few months of growth. As for how long the first batch was, the boss said he could not answer.

At the end of the market, at another gift shop, an egg called Vital Life Eggs attracts attention. The owner has hard-pressed to recommend his own "star product". "Eggs are made from chickens that eat hot peppers. The nutritional value can be high." According to the owner, because the peppers contain a lot of vitamin E, the chickens from the snack chilies. Growing up, the content of vitamin E in the eggs produced in the future will naturally be higher. The reporter noted that this new concept egg is also expensive. 60 pcs are priced at 79 yuan. 45 pieces also have 59 yuan.

Experts: purely marketing gimmick, nutritional value "not bad"

Where is the difference between the various kinds of eggs, and is the nutritional value really magical as advertised by businesses? "It can be said that the concept of eggs is just a gimmick for business promotion, and there is no difference in nutritional value," said Liu Yanan, a researcher at the Livestock Husbandry Promotion Station of the Shijiazhuang Animal Husbandry and Aquatic Products Bureau.

Liu Yanan told reporters that the classification of eggs should be differentiated from the production process. This standard can be divided into foreign eggs, earth eggs, black eggs, and mountain eggs. Foreign eggs are eggs produced by concentrated chickens, that is, ordinary eggs. They mainly eat feed. Soil eggs, farm eggs, and firewood eggs are all eggs that are laid by chickens in a farmyard. Utensils are eggs under a blackbird. Others, such as Vital life eggs and egg cleaning, are manufacturers' marketing gimmicks and are purely conceptual hype.

“In principle, now with the unification of feeding standards, the nutritional value of foreign eggs produced by chickens that raise and eat formula feed is not lower than that of eggs. It is only that the taste of eggs is better.” But he also admitted that due to the current The country does not have a uniform standard for egg classification. This has given rise to the concept of playing a variety of banner concepts. Instant pseudo-products that impersonate earth eggs cannot be traced to the manufacturer's responsibility.

Farmers: Only 10% of the soil eggs on the market are the real masters who sell eggs on a certain market in the northern Weibei Road for a long time. Not only do they sell eggs, but they also breed nearly 1,000 chickens in rural areas. His family’s chickens are kept in captivity and feed through the chicken ring. He told reporters that more and more people are concerned about health, soil eggs are very popular with the public. “In fact, in order to cater to this demand, about half of the markets are now imitation eggs, and about 40% to 50% are fake soil eggs. Real soil eggs account for 10 % is already good."

Master Zhai said that the cost of free-range chickens is too high, and the chicken farms cannot afford them at all. Currently, chicken farmers use captive farming. "The quality of the eggs laid in chickens is relatively high, but because the chickens need to feed themselves, it takes a lot of physical strength, three or four days before the next egg." Master Yan said, occasionally one or two farms have scattered chickens, but those Eggs can only be enjoyed by very few people. It is not possible for the average farmer to raise livestock in large numbers at home, and the eggs laid in scattered chickens are generally eaten by themselves.

Farmers and cows also revealed that the production of soil eggs under stocking conditions is greatly affected by the seasons and the environment. The chicken egg production period is from April to 10 days, the weather is too cold, there is no food in the wild, and the stocking season is one year. Even 100 eggs can't be reached, and the number is very small. The average chicken laying rate is about 80% per year, and can lay about 300 eggs.

Liu Ya-nan said that the actual output of chai eggs is small, small, an ordinary egg weighs 612 grams, only 40 grams of wood eggs. "If the ordinary eggs 4 yuan / kg," Chai eggs sold 10 yuan / kg will not return the cost. ”