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there is no trace of meat pine in the pies bought back in the street.
15 yuan to buy a pound of meat muffin, the boss also sent half a catty. Recently, many of these meat pancake shops in the streets of Ji'nan, Shandong, are being pursued by the public. This is called "three catties of meat and one Jin" of meat pies made by the public. Why is the price so cheap? Reporter investigation found that the meat floss in the meat floss, I am afraid less than 20% of the cake weight.
no meat pine
reporter came to a meat pancake shop with "meat pancakes, a Jin and half a Jin". The fragrance of meat pine can be smelled from a few meters away, and seven or eight customers queued in front of the window to buy cakes. Cake shop is not big, you can see the 5 workers are busy rolling out and filling, a pot of red brown filling in the side, in addition to the color, can not see the slightest appearance of meat pine, from time to time workers will do the meat pie out of the oven, put into the door window. "Are you a pure meat pine in this cake?" How do you sell it so cheaply? " Asked a customer at the scene.
"we fill the formula according to the formula. There are dried meat floss and mung beans, and no meat floss can be stuffed." The salesman responded to the customer with the cake, and the sound behind her was kept on a recording. The reporter bought 1 catties of meat muffin from the store, and it felt sticky. The lips and teeth did have the smell of floss. Pinching with your hands is not only soft like stuffing, but also looks like flour and stuff like that.
the reporter observed the cartons packed with cakes. The boxes were made by shopkeepers, and there was no information about ingredients, ingredients and so on.
"raw materials are all made by the boss. You can rest assured that there is also oil, salt and so on in the stuffing. That's the right tune." The salesman of the meat cake shop said.
"meat loose powder" only sold 10 yuan a Jin
pastry master Zhong told reporters that if the real meat pine can not make such a cheap meat pancake, these pancakes are actually used as a raw material called meat pine powder, this meat pine powder is called meat pine, in fact there is a lot of pea powder added inside. It's so cheap.
reporter then search for this legendary meat powder on the Internet, and found that on some trading platforms, the price of meat pine powder is surprisingly cheap, the lowest one, its price is only 0.02 yuan /g, that is, a catty of meat pine powder is only 10 yuan, the price is even lower than the price of a catty pork meat.
a floss powder product from Hefei with "golden fillet" on the bag with a price of 12 yuan per bag. On the back of the bag, the bread baking special meat pine (pine powder) is clearly written, and its ingredients clearly indicate that it contains pea powder. Other similar commodities include not only pea flour, but also starch and some other food additives.
"yes, we have pea flour in our products, we can use meat floss bread and cakes to eat this. It tastes good at all." One supplier spoke directly to reporters, but how much of the dried meat floss was, and the supplier refused to answer.
cake is more pea powder
a reporter visited a number of supermarkets in Ji'nan to visit the price of meat pine, most of the price of meat in the supermarket is more than 45 yuan per Jin, and there are no pea powder, starch and other ingredients, only pork, the main material.
Master Zhong said that according to the general practice, the other ingredients such as flour and mung bean should also take up a lot of weight. "If you use meat floss to make cakes, remove the pea flour and starch, I am afraid that the actual amount of meat in the pie is not even two of a piece of cake in Chengdu." Master Zhong Tao.
it is understood that the production of meat pine must use fresh meat, in general, about half a kilo of meat can make a catty of meat pine, after cooking, stir frying, drawing and other processes, finally can be made out fluffy or fine silk like meat pine.
"pea powder is harmless to the human body, but there is a certain gap between nutrition and pea flour." The dietitian Yan she told the reporter.