Unlocking N ways to enjoy Yunan Wampee: From Tea Drinks to Medicinal Cuisine

Amidst the summer cicadas' chirping, a golden fruit is stirring taste buds nationwide. Once quietly rooted in Lingnan for over a century, this golden fruit now leaps from the branches of Yunan, Guangdong, into urban teacups and home-cooked pots, carrying the freshness of mountains and a subtle sweet-and-sour aftertaste—it's Yunan's seedless wampee, hailed as the "fruit of vital energy."

When Traditional Fruit Meets New Tea Innovation

This Lingnan gem has embarked on a glamorous transformation journey. The Huang Xiaoxi flagship store blends cultural hybridity with "Lingnan lion dance + Jiangnan drum rhythm," making wampee-infused drinks a must-try for young consumers. The medicinal tea series features wampee as the star ingredient, creatively fused with longan, pear, apple, polygonatum, and jujube in golden ratios, perfectly preserving wampee's natural essence. Zodopi uses Yunan's chicken-heart wampee as the base for its "Wild·Golden Mango Wampee": mango puree made with skin-on grinding collides with Taiwanese mango varieties, wrapped in jasmine green tea ice slush, with fruit fibers bursting with sunny flavors. Another creation, "Salty Wampee Iced Tea," uses ancient salt to enhance the fruit's aroma, weaving a unique layered experience with Maofeng tea. Heytea, after four years of exploration, finally pairs wampee with butter peach, balancing acidity while amplifying sweetness, rejuvenating this "reclusive herb" into a new favorite. Market data confirms the revolution's success: tea shops sell over 10,000 wampee drinks daily, as Yunan wampee evolves from a "Guangdong-Guangxi specialty" to a "national sensation."

Beyond Flavor: The Medicinal Marvel of Seedless Wampee

Yunan's seedless wampee shines not only for its unique taste but also for its medicinal-food homology. From peel and flesh to pit, it's rich in vitamin C, fructose, and amino acids, offering high nutritional value and medicinal benefits like aiding digestion, relieving abdominal distension, suppressing coughs, dispelling summer heat, and preventing colds. Folk wisdom transforms it into kitchen remedies: Wampee-Honey-Ginger Water—crushed fresh fruit steeped with honey and ginger juice for a refreshing summer tonic; Wampee Braised Chicken—fruit essence infused into poultry, resolving summer dampness and indigestion; Spleen-Strengthening Vitality Fruit Soup—salt-cured wampee fermented for half a month, then steeped or paired with meals to treat coughs and phlegm. Some dry wampee into preserves or boil it into sauces for ribs and duck, infusing Lingnan's "vital energy" into daily meals.

Yunan's Confidence: "World Wampee Depends on China, China's Wampee Depends on Yunan"

Over 75% of global wampee originates here, where two century-old mother trees still thrive, nurturing an industry with a comprehensive output value exceeding 8 billion yuan. Liang Shijun, deputy mayor of Yunfu City and Party secretary of Yunan County, introduces that Yunan has prioritized planning and top-level design in recent years, strengthening scientific demonstrations, optimizing variety breeding, promoting modern cultivation techniques, extending industrial chains through deep processing, and improving logistics—all to drive high-quality wampee development and enhance brand value. Behind this cross-border revolution lies Yunan's deep industrial transformation: Guangdong Branch of China Pacific Property Insurance (CPIC) adheres to the "insurance + tech" philosophy, releasing a promotional video featuring Yunan wampee's AI digital spokesperson. Using AI technology and multilingual scenarios, the video vividly traces wampee's journey from regional specialty to global hit, marking CPIC's new stride in digital and international strategies to support rural revitalization.

Within Yunan's Seedless Wampee Modern Agricultural Industrial Park, wampee freeze-dried products, mooncakes, juices, and other derivatives thrive. Model workers assist orchards with pruning, seedling cultivation, and brand marketing. Intangible cultural heritage-inspired creations and low-sugar beverages target the market. Starting with a Shanghai flagship store, the "tea drink + cultural tourism + agricultural innovation" model propels wampee beyond Lingnan, becoming a golden for county economies.

From Fresh Eating to Deep Processing: Wampee's Multidimensional Breakthrough

From tea shop sensations to medicinal cuisine stars, wampee transcends spatial and temporal limits through diverse forms. As this golden fruit swirls in teacups, blooms on tongues, and reincarnates in cultural IPs, it writes a "vital energy" legend for Chinese fruits through cross-border innovation. Yunan wampee is more than a culinary craze—it's a taste revolution spanning farmlands to cities, tradition to innovation. This summer, let this "fruit of vital energy" unlock countless lifestyle possibilities!