Food safety consumption tips: meat floss and meat powder floss should not be confused
2023-02-24
Meat floss is a kind of leisure dried meat product, which is favored by "food". However, a reporter from China Consumer Daily found that the prices of different kinds of meat floss vary greatly, and the main reason is that some so-called meat floss is actually meat powder floss with little meat content. The difference between meat floss and meat powder floss is only one word. How can consumers distinguish it? Investigation: There is a big difference in the price of meat floss and meat powder floss. On February 17, a reporter from China Consumer Daily logged in to the JD platform and entered a search for "meat floss". He found that the price of "meat floss" with roughly the same raw material and specifications was very different. For example, a 250g product named "Qin Zhi Lian Xiang Crispy Pork Floss and Crispy Chicken Floss" only sells for 9.9 yuan, while a 250g product named "An Xiaoli Jinsi Chicken Floss" sells for 25 yuan. The reporter then entered the "pork floss+250g" search and found that the price of a 250g Chaohao Hongxiang Crispy Pork Floss was 11.64 yuan, while the price of a 250g pork floss in a nominal Taicang factory store was as high as 99 yuan. The same is meat floss. Why is the price difference so large? The reporter searched and compared and found that most of the "meat floss" with relatively high prices were directly labeled as meat floss or pastry meat floss, while some were clearly labeled as ingredients such as pork, drinking water, white granulated sugar and spices, while some were not so labeled, but also noted that the "product advantage" was "you can see the shredded pork, it tastes chewy, and it tastes rich". At the same time, most of these products are marked as snacks or food for infants and the elderly. However, the relatively low price of "meat floss" is mostly indicated as "meat floss" in the product name or the product introduction after the drop down, which is suitable for baking scallops, hand cakes, sushi, bread, sandwiches, etc. What is the difference between meat floss and meat powder floss? Zang Mingwu, deputy chief engineer of the China Meat Food Comprehensive Research Center, said in an interview with the reporter of the China Consumer News that meat floss is a cooked meat product with a single lean meat of livestock and poultry as raw material, which is made of muscle fibers that are fluffy into flocculent or long fiber shape through trimming, boiling, pressing or loosening, seasoning, and frying. The meatloaf is made from a single cooked meat of livestock and poultry with cooked soybean powder and other auxiliary materials. There is a large gap between the production cost and nutritional value of the two. On February 18, the reporter visited the North China Food City in Xinhua District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, and found that even if it was minced meat, the price also varied greatly. For example, the wholesale price of a "pea meat floss" called "golden pine" suitable for making pastries or bread fillings is 7.25 yuan per 500g; A meat floss that can be sprinkled on the surface of bread and other products costs 22.6 yuan per 500g. Several wholesalers admitted that the difference in price was mainly due to the difference in the amount of cooked soybean flour added. According to these wholesalers, most of the people who buy meat floss are street vendors who sell handmade cakes and fried cold noodles. Due to cost considerations, some bakeries on the market sell meat floss bread, meat floss roll, meat floss cake, etc., mostly using relatively cheap meat floss, especially for filling. The reporter then visited several brand bakeries in Shijiazhuang and found that the ingredients on the "ingredients list" on the back of the package of some prepackaged meat floss bread were marked as meat floss or meat powder floss, but placed in the middle
Edit:Ying Ying Responsible editor:Shen Chen
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