What Is the Market Price of Red Dates per Jin? If You Buy Too Many, Let Me Teach You How to Store Them Properly

Red dates hold a status in China's food culture that cannot be underestimated. Whether in congee, stewed soup or beverages, you can always see them. So do you know what the market price of red dates is per jin? And how should you store them if you buy too many? Let's find out together with the editor of Tuliu.com.

I. Basic Information About Red Dates

1. The Producing Areas of Red Dates

Red dates, also known as jujubes, are a temperate crop with strong adaptability, so their cultivation range is very wide. They are grown in many provinces, cities and regions across China, among which the more famous ones include Shandong dates (Ningyang large jujube, Zaozhuang large red jujube), Shanxi dates (Jishan flat jujube, Taigu hubing jujube), Hebei dates (Fuping large jujube), Xingtang large jujube, Xinjiang dates (Aksu red jujube, Ruoqiang grey jujube, Hotan red jujube), northern Shaanxi dates (Qingjian dog-head red jujube), Gansu dates (Linze small jujube) and so on, and the cultivation history of these red date varieties all exceeds a thousand years.

2. The Value of Red Dates

Besides serving as a beauty tonic, red dates are also very good for tonifying the middle and boosting qi, nourishing blood and calming the mind, and moderating the properties of medicines. In addition, regularly eating fresh jujubes can reduce the chance of developing gallstones. The vitamins, sugars, trace calcium and amino acids in red dates are also highly effective for improving immunity, preventing and treating high blood pressure, inhibiting cancer cells, protecting the liver, delaying aging, and whitening and removing spots.

3. How to Eat Red Dates

The simplest way is to soak red dates in water, which can nourish and protect the liver; next, cooking congee with red dates is also fine, such as red date, black rice and red rice congee, millet and red date congee, white fungus, lotus seed and red date congee, and so on; and then there is stewing chicken soup, boiling eggs, infusing in liquor and so on, all of which are fine.

II. What Is the Market Price of Red Dates per Jin?

Red dates are sold in many forms on the market, such as loose by weight, bagged, canned retail and so on, and the prices also differ depending on brand, place of origin, variety, grade and so on.

1. Below is a reference price table for loose red dates compiled from some regions

2. From a certain website platform, it was learned that a type of red dates of 1000g/bag, packed 5kg per box, has a suggested retail price of around 288 yuan/box; however, if wholesale 1-19 boxes it is 199 yuan/box, for 20-199 boxes it is 179 yuan/box, and for wholesale of 200 boxes or more it is 149 yuan/box.

So overall, the larger the wholesale quantity, the more economical the price will be.

III. How Should Red Dates Be Stored If You Buy Too Many?

Usually when buying red dates, people will buy some to keep on hand, but sometimes they cannot use them all up, and at this point how to store red dates becomes a problem for many people, so below the editor of Tuliu.com will introduce the methods for storing red dates.

1. Seal red dates and refrigerate them

Nowadays households basically all have refrigerators, so if the red dates bought are not used up, you can put them in a sealed box or sealed bag, press out the air, and then place them in the refrigerator's cold storage compartment, and in this way the red dates can be stored quite well.

2. Place red dates in a foam box

In the transport of many goods, one of the most commonly used items is the foam box, so when there are red dates that cannot be finished, placing them in a clean foam box is also very good.

3. Store red dates in a cellar or warehouse

In northern regions, people prepare winter vegetables in winter, so many households have cellars, and sealing red dates well and putting them into the cellar is also fine; placing red dates in a dry, clean warehouse follows a similar principle.

4. In addition, here is another method to keep fresh jujubes from shriveling, changing color or losing sugar content.

Precool selected fresh jujubes free of rot and borers to 0°C, place the precooled fresh jujubes at a distance of IOcm from an ultraviolet lamp tube (2.4KJ/m2), with a direct irradiation time of 2 minutes, then freeze the treated fresh jujubes at minus 30°C until frozen jujubes are obtained, put the frozen jujubes into a plastic basket, and at the same time add a solid preservative (weight ratio: calcium silicate 8, iron powder 5, activated carbon 4), placing one bag of solid preservative per 5KG, and they can be stored for 12 months. During transport, keep the frozen jujubes at minus 15°C and seal and store them in ordinary plastic bags.

The above is all the content introduced to you about red dates, and I hope it is helpful to you after reading it.