Mooncake-specific Melon Filling is a functional fruit filling product of winter melon developed specifically for mooncake manufacturing. Its main ingredients include candied winter melon pieces, maltose syrup, maltodextrin, natural flavors, pectin and edible vegetable oil, which are made through physical low-temperature concentration and thermal stabilization treatment technology.

Mooncake-Specific Melon Filling Features

① Strong baking temperature resistance

During the development process, Mooncake-specific Melon Filling was specially designed for the characteristics of long-term high-temperature baking of Cantonese mooncakes, and thermorheological and color stability were debugged. In a hot air baking environment of 180℃ to 200℃, Mooncake-specific Melon Filling does not burn, emit oil, or collapse, and can be baked synchronously with most skin materials on the market, such as lard skin and vegetable oil skin. Compared with the problem of traditional Candied Winter Melon Paste being easy to caramelize due to high sugar content, this product controls the sweetness at Brix 60±2, and at the same time improves the high-temperature structural stability through the pectin structure water-locking technology. According to a test conducted by a large mooncake factory in China, after 24 minutes of standard baking, the fruit particles of Mooncake-specific Melon Filling are still crystal clear and not gelatinized, and the whole is fluffy and full, which is conducive to improving the appearance consistency of the finished mooncakes and is a key supporting filling for realizing large-scale production automation.

② Natural and sweet flavor

Mooncake-specific Melon Filling emphasizes a refreshing, natural, and not overly sweet flavor system. It contains winter melon pulp that is pickled and matured at low temperature, and then compounded with a small amount of maltose syrup to enhance its sweetness. This formula is particularly suitable for main fillings such as egg yolk, bean paste, nuts, cheese, and custard. As a secondary filling, it can enhance freshness, moisturize the mouth, and relieve greasy taste. In multi-flavor mixed mooncakes (such as five-nut egg yolk mooncakes and pineapple bean paste mooncakes), Winter Melon Filling can buffer the strong flavor, making the whole cake more harmonious and refreshing. In 2024, our company and a mooncake brand in Taiwan jointly developed the "Winter Melon Cheese Lava Mooncake" series. Based on the compatibility advantage of this filling, it successfully entered the young consumer market in Southeast Asia and received good feedback.

③ Strong process adaptability

Mooncake-specific Melon Filling fully considers the requirements of modern filling and forming equipment in terms of texture control. The product viscosity is controlled in the range of 6000~8000cps (25℃), which is suitable for a variety of filling machines, core injection machines, and mooncake forming machines. It is not easy to stick to the knife, draw wires, or overflow, and has good material cutting smoothness. In the Cantonese mooncake wrapping, Mooncake-specific Melon Filling can stably cooperate with the double-track skin filling line, support stable discharge of mooncake specifications with different gram weights from 45g to 150g, and has moderate adhesion, which does not affect the skin embryo closure rate. According to feedback from many OEM mooncake factories, Mooncake-specific Melon Filling does not require additional temperature adjustment after thawing in the refrigerator, and can be used immediately after thawing, which greatly reduces the pre-production processing time and improves efficiency. It is an important help for mass production companies to control the production rhythm.

Mooncake-Specific Melon Filling Application

① China Suzhou "Daoxiang Village" Cantonese-style mooncake production line

"Suzhou Daoxiang Village" is one of the time-honored Chinese brands. It selects our company's Mooncake-specific Melon Filling for the winter melon and bean paste style in its "light sweet series" mooncakes. This mooncake features a low sugar ratio and a traditional flavor, which is particularly suitable for middle-aged and elderly consumer groups and young users with enhanced health awareness. In its Cantonese-style automatic production line, Daoxiang Village uses the standard of 50g skin + 50g filling for packaging, of which 50% of the filling is this Winter Melon Filling, which can effectively balance the stickiness of the bean paste and the oily feeling of the egg yolk, making the finished product more refreshing and non-greasy. Mooncake-specific Melon Filling mooncakes set a record of 1.2 million pieces sold in a single month during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2023. Our company's fillings supply more than 80 tons stably, and the product quality and shipment frequency are highly recognized by customers.

② Singapore "Bengawan Solo" Traditional Festival Gift Box Customization Project

Singapore's well-known Chinese pastry brand Bengawan Solo has selected our company's Mooncake-specific Melon Filling for its Mid-Autumn Festival limited gift box series for three consecutive years from 2022 to 2024. The brand targets the preferences of Chaoshan people in Southeast Asia, and Mooncake-specific Melon Filling is paired with mung bean paste and salted egg yolk to launch the "Mung Bean Winter Melon Yolk" series combination pack. The product needs to be packaged and refrigerated for preservation after hot air baking at 180℃/20 minutes, which requires extremely high structural integrity and flavor restoration ability of the filling. The fillings provided by our company support cold chain transportation and can be quickly reheated and used within 48 hours. With the low-temperature thawing line of the Singapore factory, the fillings have the same flavor at room temperature and in refrigerated state. On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2023, the gift box was sold out in major supermarkets and received five-star reviews on the Shopee platform.

③ "Uncle G Bakery" in Vancouver, Canada, a special Mid-Autumn Festival project for overseas Chinese

"Uncle G Bakery" is a very influential Chinese baking brand in Canada, which has long focused on exporting seasonal pastries to the Chinese community in North America. In the Mid-Autumn Festival of 2023, the brand launched the "Fruit Particle Winter Melon Red Bean Paste Cantonese Mooncake". The winter melon fruit filling used is the Mooncake-specific Melon Filling provided by our company, with a ratio of 70% red bean paste and 30% Winter Melon Filling. Customers reported that Mooncake-specific Melon Filling does not flow sugar or crack during baking, which is conducive to controlling the consistency of product appearance and filling ratio. Due to the high food safety standards in Canada, our company specially provides English ingredient labels, CFIA documents, halal and HACCP dual certifications, and successfully passed the Canadian customs approval. The customer plans to incorporate the filling formula into the Mid-Autumn Festival product system for a long time and sign a 150-ton filling purchase contract in 2024.