Grapes are 330 yuan per catty, strawberries are 360 yuan per catty? You heard it right!
A netizen took a picture of this fruit billboard on the highway. At first, he thought it was a typo, but he didn't expect it to be true. The place of origin is Xiongyue, Liaoning, and the planting company confirmed that the news is true. The sales staff are quite confident that these are specially bred, and the varieties are called "King Grape" and "King Strawberry". There are sales points in 40 to 50 cities across the country, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The billboard prints the national uniform retail price. If you buy it wholesale, it can be "cheaper", 400 yuan/2 pounds.
Why is it so expensive? According to the sales introduction, their main focus is on original ecological cultivation, without pesticides and fed with milk. It is also claimed that the company's products have more than 100 test reports and meet the pesticide residue-free standard. The company's promotional video also stated that the soil used to grow strawberries is not ordinary soil. It uses non-GMO soybean cakes from Heilongjiang to nourish the soil. The varieties are special seedlings from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The cost of a strawberry seedling is 4 yuan, and 800 kilograms of milk and water are needed to irrigate the strawberries once!
But experts directly slapped it in the face: the main components of milk are water and protein. The protein cannot be directly absorbed by plants. After decomposition, it is only equivalent to ordinary nitrogen fertilizer. The so-called "milk irrigation" has no scientific basis. In addition, the reporter searched the company's corporate registration information based on the phone call and found that since the company was established in 2022, the number of insured persons has been 0. A search of the company's Taobao store revealed that more than 100 orders of this "King Series" fruit have been sold.
But having said that, as long as the price is clearly marked and there are no violations, you are free to buy or sell as you wish. I just hope that every "noble" bite you take into your mouth can really be worthy of the heavy money.
