315What happened to the old-style pickled cabbage? Which specific suppliers are there? Details attached!

At the Consumer Rights Protection Day Gala on March 15, 2022, unknown consumer scandals were revealed, including spoiled vermicelli, pickled cabbage from pits, and jade live streaming scams. The most popular one is the old-style pickled cabbage, which has a great relationship with people’s diet. What happened to the old-style pickled cabbage? Which specific suppliers are there? The details are as follows:

1. What happened to traditional pickled cabbage?

At the 2022 315 Anti-Counterfeiting Gala, it was revealed that the old-style pickled cabbage produced by Hunan Chaqi Vegetable Industry was not pickled in jars, but in earth pits. During the pickling process, workers walked barefoot and even threw cigarette butts directly onto the sauerkraut. The pickled cabbage made in this way is definitely not safe for consumption. Especially in summer, the amount of preservatives exceeds the standard, and such food is definitely harmful to the human body. It is understood that the old-style pickled cabbage produced by Chaqi Vegetable Industry is a supplier of Master Kong and Uni-President. This immediately caused an uproar because most people in my country have the habit of eating instant noodles, and I believe that most of them have also eaten instant noodles of these two brands. Here are some differences between old-style pickled cabbage and earth-pit pickled cabbage:

1. Introduction to pickling old-style pickled cabbage

First put some pepper and salt in cold water, then boil the water. The amount of water should be about 10%-20% of the jar capacity, not too much. After the water has completely cooled, pour it into the jar and then add one or two ounces of sorghum wine. As kimchi ferments, it develops antibacterial effects. Lactic acid bacteria are produced during the fermentation process, and a sour taste is produced as the fermentation matures, which not only makes the kimchi more delicious, but also inhibits other bacteria in the jar and prevents abnormal fermentation.

2. Pickled sauerkraut in a pit

Just dig a hole and put the vegetables into the pit, and workers need to step on them to pickle them. This is not real pickled cabbage at all, and it is quite harmful to the human body if eaten.

After the Laotan Pickled Cabbage incident was exposed, many e-commerce platforms removed Laotan Pickled Cabbage instant noodles from their shelves. When searching with sauerkraut as the keyword, some stores marked the non-earth pit sauerkraut in the product details.

2. Who are the suppliers of Laotan Pickled Cabbage? Details attached!

The official website of the flag-raising company shows that its partners in the production of Laotan Pickled Cabbage include Uni-President, Master Kong, Wu Gu Yu Fen, Haitong Foods, and Xiang Ziwei, etc.

1. Uni-President Old Style Pickled Cabbage

On the evening of March 15, Uni-President’s official website released a statement in response, saying that the company attached great importance to it and had conducted a thorough inspection of the sauerkraut bun ingredients and related archival records under the on-site inspection of the Changsha Municipal Market Supervision Administration on the same day. Uni-President released a statement saying that Hunan Chaqi Company has no longer been the company’s supplier of sauerkraut bun ingredients since December 2012. All relevant sauerkraut bun products have been sealed and are undergoing quality inspection with the participation of the Market Supervision Bureau.

2. Master Kong Pickled Cabbage

Currently, the Master Kong e-commerce flagship store has removed products related to Laotan Pickled Cabbage Beef Noodles from the shelves.

In a word, the 315 Laotan Pickled Cabbage was fraudulently sold by Hunan Chaqi Vegetable Industry as Laotan Pickled Cabbage by selling pickled cabbage grown in earth pits, which completely treated consumer safety as a joke.