Dongyang Ham

Dongyang Ham

　　　　Product Name: Dongyang Ham

　　Place of Origin: Dongyang, Zhejiang

　　Product Features: Shaped like bamboo leaves, with thin skin and fine bones, Dongyang ham has a plump center, a balance of lean and fat, being rich yet not greasy. The lean meat is tender and rose-red in color, while the fat is translucent and crystal-clear. With a well-balanced saltiness and a rich aroma, it is famed for its “four excellences” in color, aroma, taste, and appearance.

　　Product History: Historically known as smoked trotter, Dongyang ham production began in the Southern Song Dynasty. “Jiang Xuefang” ham was once listed as an imperial tribute during the Qing Dynasty. The ham processing industry in Dongyang boasts a history of over 1,200 years, often referred to as “Jinhua ham comes from Dongyang.” According to the Dong Ding edition of Compendium of Materia Medica Supplement, “Lanxun, commonly known as ham, is best when produced in Jinhua. All six regions of Jinhua produce it, but those from Dongyang and Pudong are superior.”

　　Product Introduction: Dongyang ham is widely renowned not only as a delicious and premium food, but also as a high-end nutritious tonic. It contains eighteen amino acids, eight of which cannot be synthesized by the human body.

　　Product Functions: Through fermentation over winter and summer, the various nutrients in the ham become more easily absorbed by the human body. With a salty-sweet flavor and mild nature, it offers nourishing benefits such as harmonizing the middle energizer, benefiting kidneys, nourishing stomach, promoting body fluids, strengthening bone marrow, tonifying deficiency and fatigue, enriching blood vessels, and enhancing foot strength. It also holds medicinal value and can treat conditions such as deficiency fatigue with palpitations, spleen deficiency with poor appetite, chronic diarrhea, and prolonged dysentery.