However, according to the chapter on agriculture in Lien Heng's General History of Taiwan, the first person to discover how jelly-fig seeds turned water to jelly, and to "commercialize" them, was actually Ai-yu's father.
然而，根據連橫《台灣通史》〈農業志〉記載，最早發現愛玉子水邊結凍而將之「商品化」的，其實是愛玉的父親。