This year, CCTV’s 315 Party exposed a company that produces pickled pork with pickled vegetables.
Braised pork with pickled vegetables is a well-known dish, usually made with pork belly.
But I don’t know if this company read the recipe wrong, but it went so far as to use trough meat with a large number of lymph nodes (also called lymph meat) to make a pre-made dish of braised pork with pickled vegetables.
It’s really incredible that this is being sold in large quantities on the market.
What kind of meat is lymph meat?
Generally speaking, it refers to meat with relatively obvious lymph nodes.
Lymph nodes are the immune organs of animals, which are specially used to deal with invading viruses and bacteria.
So, is it true that lymphatic meat cannot be eaten?
The answer may be different from what you think.
Lymph Meat Ah Lymph Meat
Many people believe that lymph nodes are just a place where animals deal with germs and viruses, and they do not necessarily carry germs and viruses. If it is a normal lymph node, there is no reason why it cannot be eaten. Is the statement
correct?
Objectively speaking, this is right.
Because the lymph nodes in animals are all over the body, not just the piece of meat on the neck. It would be difficult to remove all the lymph nodes without eating them.
For example, a pig has hundreds of lymph nodes all over the body. If you want to remove them, how is that possible?
Therefore, lymph nodes are not a scourge. If there are not too many, there will not be much of a problem under normal cooking.
The real problem is that the lymph meat in the pig neck contains too much lymph. According to normal eating habits, everyone should get rid of this, because it won’t take much effort to get rid of it.
If you ask the person who proposed the "lymphatic harmless theory" to eat the lymphatic meat near the pig's neck every day, he probably won't eat it himself.
Why?
Normally, normal lymph nodes are normal and do not carry germs and viruses.
But if the lymph nodes become diseased, there is a high probability that they will carry viruses. Moreover, if the diseased lymph nodes are not removed during quarantine, the virus will generally be difficult to remove in the hands of consumers.
And the lymphatic meat here in the pig neck carries so many lymph nodes, the chance of disease is very high. To put it bluntly, it is a matter of quantity. It is okay if the number of lymph nodes is small. If there are too many lymph nodes in one part, it is best to remove this piece of meat and not eat it. Because it is difficult to ensure that there are no diseased lymph nodes among so many lymph nodes inside.
Someone said, can it be eaten as long as the diseased lymph nodes are cleaned?
This is the scientific theory. But this is just a scientific theory. People who say these things may know "lymph nodes" well, but they certainly don't understand the current status of food processing.
If everyone followed the rules, there would be no 315 next year.
People like those who use lymph meat to make braised pork with pickled vegetables are too lazy to clean the lymph nodes, or even just don’t clean them, and they don’t distinguish whether there are lesions or no lesions. When it comes to the circulation end and the consumer end, isn't it funny if you ask consumers to check whether the lymph nodes are diseased?
Therefore, as a consumer, not eating lymphatic meat from the neck may not be very scientific or rigorous, but it is the most direct and effective way.
After all, this piece of lymph meat is not delicious, so just remove it.
Has lymph meat been banned?
If the meat safety problem is rectified from the root, the lymphatic meat in the pig neck should be completely removed at the slaughter end of the pork circulation and cannot be distributed to the market.
So, are you doing this now?
First of all, a question is, what is lymphatic meat?
As we said above, lymphatic meat is spread all over the body, so what is lymphatic meat and what is trough meat is still a folk saying.
Our current pork slaughtering is centralized and very strict. It is also very easy if it is clear which piece of meat is to be removed during the slaughtering process so that it cannot enter the market.
But at the moment, I have not seen such an approach.
In the pork slaughtering process, the common practice is to "remove the three glands."
Which three glands are "removing the three glands"?
The first one is the thyroid gland, which is under the pig’s trachea and also in the pig’s neck. This piece of meat is strictly prohibited from being distributed in the market, because the thyroid gland usually contains thyroid hormone, which will cause excitement and irregular heartbeat in people after eating it.
The second one is the pig adrenal gland, which is located in front and above the pig kidney. This piece cannot be eaten for the same reason as the thyroid gland. The adrenal glands contain a large amount of adrenaline, which is harmful to the human body.
The third one is the lymph nodes, but please note that the lymph nodes that are required to be removed during the slaughtering process are diseased lymph nodes. That is, wherever the lymph nodes in the pig are diseased, they will be removed. Those without lesions are not actually required to be removed.
Therefore, it is not said that the "lymphatic flesh" in the neck must be removed. It mainly depends on whether there are any lesions. This area is not strictly prohibited from being circulated in the market.
Because there is no very thorough method to destroy these lymphatic meats, some people have channels to obtain these "lymphatic meats without disease", and then process these meats and put them on the market.
For example, this company that uses lymph meat to make braised pork with pickled vegetables buys the lymph meat from the market "uprightly".
Do you think lymphatic meat can be eaten? If you can’t eat it, why not just destroy that piece of meat in the slaughterhouse? In fact, this is relatively vague at the moment. It’s just that everyone always thinks that they can’t eat it in life.
What do you think?
uses lymph meat to make braised pork with pickled vegetables. If you think about it hard, you can still imagine it.
But what is even more distressing is that the price of pork has been so low this year. These people actually use lymph meat to make pork belly with pickled vegetables. Are they really that "cost-conscious"?
Like in the market, if you buy pork in bulk, the current price may be only 7 yuan per catty, and the price in the previous wave may be only 6 yuan per catty. If you buy frozen pork, the price will definitely be cheaper.
Using frozen pork to make braised pork with pickled vegetables may sound unpleasant, but at least it’s not a big problem, right? Frozen pork is edible, and no one is prohibited from eating frozen pork.
It has to be made with lymph meat. Isn’t this totally disgusting?
What do you think?
is probably just used to it and has benefited from it. Anyway, you can sell any kind of meat, so just find the one with the lowest cost, and you can sell more through price wars. As for quality issues? The price and profit of the product are not as important.
This also reminds us that if the price of an item is obviously lower than the market price and it is not a big brand, especially food, we should be vigilant at this time.
Of course, consumers cannot always be expected to tell whether the braised pork with pickled vegetables is edible or what kind of meat is used. This matter must be worked on the circulation side and production side.
In recent years, there has been obviously a surplus of pork, so why let the lymphatic meat circulate again? It’s not like there’s a shortage of pork, so if it should be banned from being distributed in the market, it should be banned.
In addition, the ingredient lists of some foods should be more strict. It is difficult to know whether "pork" or "duck" is good pork or bad pork when they are generally mentioned. It should at least be labeled which part of the pig's meat it is, and then let consumers choose whether to eat it or not.
This may be better.
What do you think?
