reporter Huang Zhongming Intern Zhang Gang
many people like to eat dumplings but have no time to cook, and go to a restaurant. A quick choice. But many of the diners wonder why the dumplings can't eat the "mother's taste"? Recently, the newspaper reporter found that some merchants use a large amount of additives when they make dumplings. Carrageenan, xanthan gum and Artemisia gum make dumpling skin tasty, beef essence and bone marrow ointment can make all kinds of meat smells... Perhaps, from the import of a dumpling, the tip of your tongue has stained more than 20 kinds of additives, of which, there are more than ten kinds of dumplings, more than ten kinds of meat are hidden in the stuffing...
use the additive to make the dumpling skin more flexible and better taste - -
[b] dumpling skin can be played with [/b]
"add 0.2% sucrose ester, 2% colloid, plus 0.9% salt... The skin of the dumpling made of the gluten has been made, "the industry insiders taught the experience of making dumplings.
reporter survey found that the dumpling peel additives have long been the secret of the industry, and all kinds of "dumplings leather improver" hot marketing market, these various additives make dumpling skin "muscle road" uncommon, a small workshop made of dumplings after Pi Roucheng regiment can even pop up.
[b] dumpling shop: "muscle road" dumpling skin has a secret recipe [/b]
May 14th, in a dumpling shop on the four road, the taste of the road has been praised by many customers. The reporter found that the dumpling skin of this shop is very thin, and it can be seen through the color of dumpling skin and meat filling. The skin is so thin, but it doesn't break, and it bites up and stretchy. Why?
"we have secret recipe!" facing the reporter's question, the landlady smiled.
another shop assistant revealed that the ingredients were mixed in the dumpling skin. Reporter fake said to drink dumpling soup, end the bowl into the kitchen, while the shop assistant soup gap, the reporter found a pack of white powder in the corner of the panel, plastic bags printed with "dumpling skin improver".
[b] food company: quick-frozen dumpling additive most [/b]
what is "dumpling leather improver"? The reporter inquired more than 500 sales information on the Internet. The reporter contacted a food company in Zhengzhou. The boss said that the main ingredients of "Jiaozi leather improver" were guar gum, carrageenan, xanthan gum, sucrose ester, enzyme preparation, emulsifier, thickening agent, reinforcement agent and so on. "The improver that we produce can enhance the strength of dumpling skin and bite it up!" and the dumpling cooked with an improver will not cook.
dumpling leather with the modifier can harm the health of the human body? "Nothing, it is not poisonous, people go to the dumplings with borax is all right, you can rest assured of it!"
he also told reporters, "dumpling leather improver" in the quick-frozen dumpling industry is the largest amount. "Many frozen dumplings now claim no additives, but if they do not put this, the dumplings will be dried, cracked, yellow and black, and can not be sold at all."
[b] small workshop: dumpling skin, "elastic ball" [/b]
16 afternoon, the reporter came to a small workshop specializing in the processing of dumpling skin as the owner of the hotel. Less than 20 square meters of workshops and owners bedroom, shoes and socks thrown on the flour bag, the boss is naked in front of the machine to make dumpling skin. The dumpling skin has been pressed together into a white film bag.
reporters use their hands to lengthen the dumpling skin, but once it loosened, it restored to its original form. Moreover, although nearly a hundred dumpling skins are pressed together, there is no adhesion between them. "How did it happen? Did you put an additive?" the boss denied. "Absolutely no additives. I didn't dare to put on whitening agents."
when the reporter left, he took away the dumpling skin handed by the boss, clutching it in his hand and rubbing it on the side, and accidentally rubbed it into a ball. The reporter threw it on his desk, and the amazing scene appeared, and it sprang up.
through a network food forum, reporters contacted a person engaged in food manufacturing. This person speculated that this kind of strong dumpling skin may contain additives.
this person told reporters that he had studied the application of additives in dumpling skin. "I used to do an experiment with 0.2% sucrose ester, 2% colloid, 0.9% salt and 2% oil, which is made of dumplings, and the effect is very good."
[b] Health Bureau: food standards should have 16 kinds of food additives, including Artemisia Artemisia, Gleditsia gum, fumaric acid, pectin, sodium alginate, xanthan gum, carrageenan, and available rubber, are allowed to be used in the making of dumplings in the relevant food standards that are in effect in June 1, 2008. Agents act as thickeners, Acidity Regulators, coloring agents and preservatives respectively. In May 17th, the staff of the Ji'nan Municipal Health Bureau told reporters: "new standards have just been issued a few days ago, although they do not understand the specific content, but should be adjusted, after all, we are more cautious about the use of additives."
[b] additive can be made out of all kinds of dumpling stuffing [/b]
- the purchasing Commissioner reveals how the smell of the smell of meat stuffing becomes
to cut down the low quality meat into the stuffing, the soy protein, a few drops of bone marrow, and then the beef flavor. A dish of fragrant beef dumplings will be out of the pot. A reporter's dark visit found that there are many kinds of additives in the market, such as bone marrow, meat, meat, meat, and so on. They can be easily "stolen" from the meat stuffing.
[b] finished meat stuffed meat and more [/b]
in May 7th, the reporter met Mr. Zhang, purchasing specialist of meat distribution center of a large supermarket in Beijing, Ji'nan. Mr. Zhang has been engaged in meat purchasing for nearly 10 years, and has a deep understanding of the problems in the meat market.
Mr. Zhang revealed that a considerable proportion of the meat sold on the market was made of blood and neck meat, old female pork and chicken skin. They once sent several meat stuffing from different manufacturers to professional institutions for testing, and found that the pathogenic bacteria in several samples were seriously exceeded.
reporters visited a number of supermarkets and meat shops, and found that the price of finished meat stuffing sold in the Ji'nan market ranged from 39.8 yuan / kg to 23.8 yuan / kg. Among them, 39.8 yuan / kg of meat is cut into pieces of meat, raw materials easy to distinguish. The cheapest meat stuffing is cut into meat paste, and the raw material list is marked as "five flesh".
"how much is this meat filling price cheaper than others? Is it good meat?" the reporter asked the owner of a meat shop. The boss replied, "the meat is definitely no problem. The price is different because the purchase channels are different."
[b] blood neck shadow has not disappeared [/b]
Mr. Zhang told reporters that the most commonly used raw material for poor quality meat is blood neck meat. Blood neck meat contains a large number of lymph nodes, lipoma and thyroid tumor. Among them, a large number of bacteria and viruses are accumulated in lymph nodes. It is not easy to kill them for a short time, and it is easy to infect diseases after eating. "But the blood neck meat is cheap, three or four yuan a Jin, some black hearted merchants use it to make stuffing."
on the morning of May 10th, reporters saw a banner of "resolutely resisting blood and meat" hanging on the door of a baozi shop in Foshan street. Baozi shop owner said that before the media exposure of blood pork meat was made into stuffed stuffed buns, the steamed stuffed bun industry is generally affected. "A lot of old customers came to ask if our meat was blood or not, so we had to hang up this banner."
in the afternoon of May 11th, in a wholesale meat market on the north of the industrial North Road, the reporter came to wholesale blood necks as the boss of the canteen. Two workers in the cold fresh meat wholesale point told reporters: "now it is very strict and dare not sell the flesh of blood. Now the canteen is used as' Square meat ', that is the kind of seven fat three thin meat." Subsequently, the reporter visited a number of meat wholesale outlets, the other side said they did not sell blood neck meat.
[b] can make stinky meat stuffing fragrant [/b]
the owner of the slaughterhouse led Mr. Zhang to his workshop. Mr. Zhang found that the fragrant meat was made from pig bones and chicken skin. "This kind of meat has more water and no taste. It can't be eaten at all. It is generally used to feed the cat to the dog, but the slaughterhouse is used as an additive to" turn the waste into treasure ".
Mr. Zhang told reporters that the processors added chicken skin, soy protein (artificial meat) and minced meat to make stuffing to make it soft and smooth. "But there is still a smell of odour, which needs to be added with additives."
Mr. Zhang said, at that time, the boss of the slaughterhouse had introduced more than ten additives to him. "But I don't remember much. I only remember pork flavor cream, dumpling stuffing, caramel coloring and so on."
[b] additive can "steal" all kinds of taste [/b]
May 16th afternoon, the reporter in the identity of the dumpling shop owner to the station street food additive Market secretly visit.
by the recent negative effects of additives, food additives market is somewhat deserted, and some shops simply shut down and watch TV plays in it. Reporters found that almost any one shop can find food additives for stuffing. Bone marrow balm, meat flavor, meat stuffing, stuffing King... There are all kinds of additives. Moreover, these additives can produce pork, beef, mutton, seafood and so on.
these additives are different because of different manufacturers, the price is not the same, there are 10 yuan a bag of meat flavor, also 90 yuan a barrel of meat treasure king, of which the price of about 45 yuan of the majority of the products.
in an additive store, a reporter is looking at a package of pork flavor. The boss recommends, "you'd better take a barrel of balm and use it with the essence, so that the meat is full and the others can't imitate it." How to match? The boss taught to the reporter: "add 1.5% of the pork balm first, add 2% of the essence, better add a bit of Luzhou flavor, so that it can improve the overall aroma, the best effect."