On March 15, the topic of "starch intestinal collapse" topped the list of hot searches.
The first place in the ingredient list of starch sausage is meat.
Expert: It is not recommended for people to eat.
In recent years,
young people who pursue a clean ingredient list
turn around and stick to the grilled sausage stalls in the streets.
Each one costs two or three yuan. Roasted starch sausage
has become an "Internet celebrity snack"
A few years ago, ham sausage was pursued for its meatiness
Adding starch would be frowned upon.
Nowadays, some consumers are turning to starch sausage
and some even claim that
"everything is ordinary" I don’t like eating any meat at all."
Some consumers also said
"The price of starch sausage makes people scared if it contains meat."
According to a report by China Central Broadcasting Network on March 15, the reporter bought a high-volume sausage on the market. Comprehensive observation of the ingredient lists of the five brands of starch sausage shows that there is little difference in the ingredient list. They are basically composed of meat, water, starch, white sugar, MSG, spices and other seasonings, as well as sodium tripolyphosphate and sodium pyrophosphate. , sodium hexametaphosphate, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, allura red and other additives, a total of fifteen or six ingredients.
The picture shows the ingredient list of the starch intestine product purchased by the reporter. Image source: cctv.
According to the General Principles for Prepackaged Food Labeling, various ingredients should be arranged in descending order of the amount added when manufacturing or processing food. Although it is called "starch sausage", the first ingredient in the ingredient list is meat.
"There is meat, but very little meat." A staff member of a starch sausage manufacturer in Henan Province told reporters, " uses chicken and chicken bone paste, and uses duck meat, which is cheaper and most of it is starch." The reporter inquired from the e-commerce platform and found that most of the chicken bone paste currently sold are merchants dealing in pet food. The merchants said, "Bone paste is not recommended for human consumption, and barbecue is not suitable." From the price point of view, the sales of chicken bone paste The price is much lower than that of chicken, basically 3-5 yuan/jin.
The picture shows the "chicken bone paste" product displayed when searching on the e-commerce website. Image source: cctv.
Some low-price dumplings and low-price meatballs have also been exposed to use chicken neck puree, chicken rack puree, etc. He Jiguo, associate professor at the School of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering at China Agricultural University, once said that the use of chicken neck puree , the use of chicken rack puree instead of the original meat, is essentially adulterated and shoddy, and the nutrients in it cannot be absorbed by the human body.
Netizen comments: Eating starch intestines is like pure starch
I dare not eat it now
Source | China News Network
