The improvement of economic level has made people’s quality of life significantly improved. The era of insufficient food and warm clothes has become a thing of the past, and now the diet structure has improved Make big fish and big meat a frequent visitor on the table, especially for some foodies, all kinds of meat have become special favorites.
The common meats in our daily life are pork, beef, mutton, chicken, duck, fish In particular, pork has the most consumption and is most widely distributed among the population. Compared with other meats, the price is cheap, the meat is fresh and fragrant, and its nutritional value is relatively high.
We often say that big trees attract wind, people are popular, and so is meat. Many unscrupulous merchants saw the strong market share of meat food, and they came up with the idea of obtaining illegal benefits by counterfeiting meat, and turned it into action.
As a result, there are many problematic meats on the market, such as water-injected meat, glue-injected meat, etc. For ordinary consumers, due to the lack of knowledge of meat purchasing, it is usually difficult to identify problematic meats, especially glue-injected meats. Since they are not much different from normal meats, they are obtained wider circulation.
What is Glued Meat?
“Glue-injected meat” is to inject a mixture of edible glue and water into the body of pigs, cattle and sheep, and then use the coagulation of the glue to “lock the water”. “live. Some butchers also add some salt and preservatives to extend the shelf life of the meat when injecting glue.
The glue injected into meat is carrageenan, which is obtained in meat products due to its unique protein reactivity. It is widely used. Carrageenan is the only colloid with protein reactivity among natural colloids. It can form a uniform gel with protein. The loss of gravy increases the elasticity and toughness of meat products.
The “Glue-Injected Meat” starts from increasing the weight, and the dosage reaches 20 kilograms per 100 kilograms. , These illegal traders use carrageenan for industrial use or non-food additives for profit, which has a serious impact on the human body.
Carrageenan is harmless as long as it is not overdose, but after being ingested in excess by the human body, carrageenan will cause harm to the body. A series of hazards:
1. It is likely to degrade under high temperature and acidic environment, and the components after degradation There may be certain safety hazards to the human body.
2. Excessive consumption of carrageenan will reduce the absorption of potassium and other minerals by the body. Symptoms that cause gastrointestinal distress.
3. Inflammation of the body: Gastroenteritis can lead to vomiting and diarrhea, severe stomach pain and stomach cramps.
4. Causes frequent intestinal damage, ulcers, and even tumors.
5. Long-term use will cause adverse phenomena.
Note: “Glue-injected meat” has spread? Most of them exist in these 3 kinds of meat, tell your family not to eat it!
1. Hot Pot Balls
For most young people, they like to eat hot pot very much at ordinary times. The indispensable ingredients when eating hot pot are all kinds of hot pot balls. These hot pot balls taste very good after being cooked. ok, eat it in your mouthVery chewy, in addition to eating hot pot, Mala Tang, Mala Xiang Guo, etc. are also inseparable from these balls.
But I don’t know if you have noticed that the pure meatballs made at home are very sticky and easy to cook. It is very easy to disperse at times, and the meat of all kinds of meatballs on the market is firm and very elastic, which has a lot to do with the injection of carrageenan.
2. Beef and Lamb Roll
Beef and mutton rolls are also a must-have ingredient when eating hot pot. Many people can usually eat a few plates or even a few plates. For regular hot pot restaurants, they sell Most of the beef and mutton rolls are real beef and mutton, but the quality of the bulk beef and mutton rolls sold in the market is uneven.
Generally speaking, this kind of meat fake is made of duck meat, adding a little suet or beef and adding karaage It is made of glue, and the smell of beef and mutton is strong when you smell it suddenly. Many people believe that it is real meat, but it is not. In particular, some self-service hot pots rarely use real beef and mutton.
3. Chicken chops
< p data-track="23">Fried chicken fillet and fried chicken cutlet should be a childhood memory of many people. Even in modern society, fried chicken fillet and fried chicken fillet is still the leader of roadside food. . Many people think that chicken tenderloin is made from chicken, but it is not.
The chicken chops sold by some merchants are artificially synthesized, that is, the parts with poor meat quality are removed from the chicken. , Mix some chicken breasts, chop them into puree, and then add starch and carrageenan to increase the viscosity of the puree. After stirring, a large amount of food additives are added to make meat patties. After frying, chicken chops are formed.
In fact, in addition to the above three kinds of meat, there are many meats, which also add a lot of carrageenan , Everyone must learn to distinguish in peacetime, and try to let children and parents eat less in peacetime.
How to distinguish between glue-injected meat, water-injected meat, and medicinal-injected meat?
——Glue meat
When you touch the meat, the glue-injected pork, beef and mutton is harder than normal pork, beef and mutton, and the softness is not enough;
Second view color, carrageenan is a yellow powder, the color of the glued meat will be different from the normal white meat;
Three smells. For unscrupulous traders who only increase the weight, industrial carrageenan is mostly used. Industrial glue has a pungent odor. Please distinguish carefully. The smell is different from normal meat.
——Water-Infused Meat
1. Observation method: normal fresh pork, the muscle is shiny, the red is uniform, the fat is white, and the surface is slightly smaller; the pork after water injection, the muscle Lack of luster, with a watery sheen on the surface.
2. Hand touch method: Normal fresh pork is elastic and sticky to the touch. The pork after water injection has poor touch elasticity and no stickiness.
3. Knife cutting method: For normal fresh pork, after cutting it with a knife, no water will flow out from the cut surface, and no ice remains between the muscles: the cut surface after water injection, there is water flowing out of the knife, if it is frozen There are still ice cubes remaining between the meat and muscles. In severe cases, the muscle fibers of the lean meat are frozen and cracked, and nutrients are lost.
——medicated meat
Injected meat is the most difficult to identify with the naked eye, and the harm is also the most serious. Because apart from using chemical testing methods, consumers have no way to be in the market Medicated meat can be seen on the market, but it is obviously impractical to test it in the market.
Medicated meat is injected with a drug called albuterol before slaughter. It is a beta receptor agonist, commonly used as an anti-asthma drug in humans. After injecting salbutamol to pigs to be slaughtered, it can play a role in water retention and increase body weight.
Livestock will feel mouthwatering after being injected Thirsty and desperately drink water, including carrageenan aqueous solution. Therefore, the method of identifying water-injected meat and glue-injected meat can also identify medicinal-injected meat.