In addition to the commonly eaten pork, chicken, duck, fish, beef and mutton, there are many "meats" that are artificially synthesized, and you may not be eating meat!

---------What is Synthetic Meat?

There are three main types of synthetic meat: the first synthetic meat: it is made of starch and soy products after mechanical processing, which has almost no meat, but the taste is similar to meat, and the cost is very low.

Synthetic meat is very common in the market, such as:

1. Cheap steak

Steak is divided into raw cut steak and reconstituted steak, the former is the raw meat cut directly from the beef, and the price is relatively high, and the latter is the combination of minced meat and pressed into steak, which is lower price.

However, glutamine aminotransferase, gum and carrageenan are added to the reconstituted steak to help shape the beef, so that the meat can be made like a whole piece of meat.

2. Frozen meatballs

Cheap fish balls, shrimp balls, and crab sticks are almost meat-free, mainly made of chicken, frozen surimi "bionic food", and then combined with a certain amount of starch, water, pigments, moisture retention agents, flavors, preservatives and other food additives "blended", with very low nutritional value.

3. Crab sticks

The basic ingredients of crab sticks are: surimi, water, soybean protein, starch, and food additives. Some of the ingredients include chicken and pork, and crab does not appear on the ingredient list at all.

4. Synthetic bacon

The raw materials of high-quality bacon are only pork and water, and if the ingredients include soy protein and carrageenan, it means that it is bacon made of reconstituted minced meat, plus various edible gums.

The second type of synthetic meat: the meat fibers are glued together with edible glue. The function of edible gum is to reshape food, that is, to coagulate the scattered pieces of meat together to make it a whole piece.

This type of synthetic meat is:

1. Chicken fillet and chicken cutlet

Frozen chicken fillet and chicken steak are also a kind of synthetic meat products. It is made by mixing some chicken breast with the poorer part of the chicken, chopping the mud and shaping it and then frying it in the pot.

2. Beef rolls, mutton rolls

They are all minced meat with edges and corners, plus some beef and mutton-flavored flavors and pigments, marinated and compressed, frozen, cut into thin meat rolls, labeled and sold. This type of meat generally has a characteristic that it is easy to fall apart when it goes down into the pot.

The third type of synthetic meat: skeletal muscle tissue is cultivated from animal stem cells, but the cost of this method is too high, so synthetic meat manufacturers almost do not use this production method.

In short, no matter what kind of synthetic meat, the quality depends on the quality of the raw materials, if you don't want to eat such "fake meat", it is recommended to go to the regular supermarket to buy pre-packaged products, if you are careful enough to look at the ingredient list, you will know that the "real meat" and "pure meat" you buy or a variety of different "fake meat".

----Biomimetic meat

Bionic meat is also known as: substitute meat, imitation meat, vegetarian meat. Most of the bionic meat products are made of soybean protein and starch mixed and extruded, so that the taste of bionic meat products is similar to that of meat.

If you eat "grilled sausages" without meat, it's biomimetic. The reason why most of the grilled sausages sold on the roadside are so fragrant is because of the addition of flavors and spices, and the strong aroma is emitted by these things. In addition to flavors, roasted sausages will also add monascus red pigment, preservatives and the like.

In fact, as long as it is a regularly produced product and the reasonable use of additives, it can actually be eaten with confidence and will not be harmful.

Processing meat

According to the World Health Organization, processed meat products are meat that has been salted, cured, fermented, smoked or otherwise processed, such as hot dogs, hams, sausages, corned beef, beef jerky and canned meat. Whether it is Chinese or Western, it is considered a processed meat product.

When eating cured meat products, you should also eat more vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C, which is conducive to inhibiting the production of nitrosamines.

What do you think about the development of meat food?