Bionic food: fish balls without fish, crab meat and no crab
news source: look for Oriental weekly
.quot; do fish balls don't have surimi, can you? Join the Expo, learn to share this news, share with you?.quot; in the last half of the year,.Quot;.Quot;.Quot; fish products.Quot; and other illegal cases gradually It is known to the outside world, but in a professional network forum, this forum post in November 7, 2006 has been read 11 thousand and 500 people.
fish balls may be only.Quot; the pill like additive.Quot; but consumers may not know, can't see, even can't eat.
beginning of last century,.Quot; big.Quot; big Food.Quot; the concept is widely discussed and put into practice worldwide; big food.Quot, based on the interpenetration of different science and technology, the bionic food is the rise and rapid development.
, in which the maximum value of the product is the marine bionic food -- the minced fish processed with low value fish as the main raw material. The most common marine bionic food is all kinds of fish balls, such as shrimp balls, shrimps, crab meat, crab foot sticks, crab pellets, crab pliers, scallops? Products in the market generally belong to.Quot; biomimetic.Quot; or.Quot; analog.Quot; food.
the technology industry is immersed in the breakthrough of processing technology, workers and businessmen are fascinated by the gain of rich profits. In a corner, the fast growing food field has begun to deviate from its original intention and hide the hidden dangers of food safety.
recently, this newspaper reporter visited the field called.Quot, the largest marine bionic food processing base in the country,.Quot;.Quot, the country's largest marine bionic food export.Quot; and Rizhao City, Shandong Province, and interviewing Industry experts.
get an affirmative answer from business people and experts - making fish balls, shrimp balls and other surimi products completely without surimi, but that does not affect business people's gain. Some enterprises also take.Quot, fresh.Quot;.Quot; original.Quot; broad, crowned, broad.
.Quot; the country's largest marine bionic food processing base,.Quot; hard to find fish balls
car from Rizhao downtown to Arashiyama District, and get off at the Anton station. Dao.
Rizhao City has many unconfirmed titles, such as.Quot, the largest marine bionic food processing base in the country.Quot;.Quot; the largest marine bionic food export.Quot in the country; and the Rizhao City marine biomimetic food main enterprises are relatively concentrated around the Arashiyama District of an East Wei street, and the official information claims.Quot; 1/2 of the domestic surimi manufacturing enterprises are located in the (An Dongwei) Street range.Quot;.
An Dongwei was.Quot; Di Qingqi, from Huaihai.Quot; the military heavy Town, the ancient.Quot; the north four David.Quot; one. Now, the Arashiyama District Marine bionic food production of surimi products, all over the whole
in the end of last century, there are many cold storage enterprises in the end of last century. In September of fierce competition.1995, the first imitation crab meat production line of small private refrigerated enterprise Changhua company began to be produced, and the production of marine bionic food has been considered as.Quot, and a new transformation of cold storage enterprise has been explored. Road.Quot; Arashiyama District Marine biomimetic food processing has gradually formed an industrial cluster with a base type characteristics.
reports from industry media in 2006 showed that the Arashiyama district had been crowned with.Quot; the largest marine bionic food processing base in Asia.Quot; the title,.Quot; the production and marketing amount accounted for more than 80% share of the national market.Quot; In January 2010, the local official data showed that the number of Rizhao City marine bionic food exports was.Quot, which accounted for 90% of the total export of Shandong province and more than 60% of the total export of the country, which was the first.Quot in the country; therefore, it was referred to as.Quot; the largest marine bionic food export place in the country was.Quot;
although the manufacturers in Fujian and Guangdong It does not generally agree with the title, but it is not enough to affect the name of the sun in the industry.
reality and imagination are often different.
the sea product stores in the streets of the mall, the supermarket, and the Anton sea cargo city have failed to find fish balls at home and abroad. Marine bionic surimi products, such as shrimp balls, crab sticks and other marine bionic surimi products. It is also difficult to find such products in the business super and market of Rizhao City.
the reporter visited the representative and large-scale marine bionic food production enterprises Changhua, Fenghua, ARA, Haan, natural, LAN Xin and so on in the name of the dealer. The company asked.Quot, why don't you find fish balls in your supermarket here?.quot;
the answer is that there are many seafood in sunshine, people eat seafood, and few people eat this kind of biomimetic food.
the head of one enterprise sales department is looking for Oriental weekly. ".quot: I used to eat every day and not eat it for years?? in the memory of the local people around 50 years old in Beijing, you should remember the fish balls for more than 10 years ago, but it's never..quot;
in the Internet world, many food processing. The industry is communicating, making.Quot with starch, gum, additive and so on, using starch, edible glue, and additives, and.Quot; a low cost fish ball making method.
.Quot; making fish balls without surimi, can make a crisp ball, and..quot;
.Quo. T; now the konjac glue can water 25 times, the dosage is 70%, the surimi or the chicken skin is 8%, the starch is 15%, the other additives and spices 7%. This is the low cost fish balls?.quot;
.Quot; the low cost fish balls I do now are better than this, I use the surimi 18%, the chicken skin emulsifier 50%, the ice water 10%, the starch 15%, the starch 15%, the other additives and spices 7% ..Quot;
the product formula described by businessmen and artisans on the Internet is difficult to guarantee the high accuracy, but it is sufficient to support the fact that it can be used to reduce the amount of surimi or to find alternatives, to increase the use of edible glue and starch to produce marine bionic food such as low cost fish pills.
Through a week of sunshine visits and exchanges with six processing enterprises, the reporter can basically conclude that the technology of making fish balls without surimi has been.Quot,.Quot; and has been used for industry processing enterprises.
Fenghua company is responsible for the sales manager of domestic business, Sun Bin (pseudonym) ) to ".Quot": we are expensive because we are made of fish (FISH), (some enterprises) are made of glue, and what kind of glue is not very clear. I heard that..quot is a kind of edible gum extracted from soybeans;
food is currently widely used as a legal food additive. There are about 40 kinds of edible gum allowed in our country. The most widely used domestic meat products are carrageenan, xanthan gum, guar gum, agar, gelatin, sodium alginate, starch phosphate sodium, Robinia gum and konjac gum.
.Quot; the Chinese people are love to come to the key and other people to tackle key problems. In order to improve technology, the Chinese people make the key to simplify the technology and make a low quality product..quot; the surimi handicraftsmen and business people who are hidden in the network are also so impressed.
this situation is very similar to the Japanese food industry in the 80s of last century, when Japan's.Quot; meatball additive.Quot; China may also exist in heaven. According to a number of interviews and consultations by this reporter, it is essential to confirm that such products have already existed in the market.
but there is not a professional person who has been found and brave to come forward like Abe Ji. (the Department is a famous Japanese food additive expert. See the work of "the food truth uncovered" by the Department of the Department of Anne, or ".Quot of Japan.Quot, the God of food additive.Quot, the.Quot of food additive, the betrayal of.Quot," in the cover of the 2008 issue of "people to the food" in this publication. Experts.
some industry data show that industrial mass production of marine biomimetic food has sprung up in Japan in the mid 70s of last century and introduced into China in the early 90s of last century.
Professor Wang, Professor of Food College of Shanghai Ocean University, introduced to "Le Wangdong weekly":.Quot; due to resources And labor cost and other problems caused the transfer of the Japanese surimi industry to..quot in China; the competition in the
industry is becoming increasingly fierce. The production enterprises sometimes do not digest the pressure of the market competition by improving their own efficiency and other theoretical methods, but take.Quot, the stealer to reduce the.Quot, and reduce the quality of the surimi products to reach the level.
professor Xue Changhu, a professor at the school of food science and engineering of Ocean University of China and director of the China Fisheries Society, told a reporter for the Oriental weekly:.Quot; in theory, minced fish products such as fish balls, such as br />
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"Look East weekly" to enter the company in the name of the dealer, and talk to the sales manager of the company for about 40 minutes with the sales manager of the company, who are responsible for the domestic business. The original so-called.Quot; the factory price.Quot; only reference meaning, no substantial significance.
because the manufacturer can work for the customer order, the customer can get a tailored product at what price, but the main raw material fish surimi content is quite different. Some low quality products contain only a few, even do not contain Surimi, although it is also called fish ball.
Sun Bin (pseudonym) has identified an industry submersible rule to this journalist:.Quot; what price you can make, the business can produce what price ball. But it can be said frankly that no matter which enterprise produces fish balls, shrimp balls, and crabs less than 5000 yuan per ton, it is based on the base of fish balls, shrimp balls and crab sticks. It does not contain surimi, the main raw material is starch, edible gum, additive..quot;
"look for Oriental weekly" reporter then in Changhua, Lan Xin, natural and other enterprises to visit, all confirmed the existence of.Quot; see price to meat.Quot; tailored low quality marine bionic food.
.Quot; make that 53 00 yuan per ton or so, I can tell you that there is no surimi..quot; Liu Shi, a sales director in Huabei district of Huabei, Changhua company, told "look to the Oriental weekly".
.Quot; if you buy a little product, there is no (surimi) content? Do not say no, it contains a little, 15 kilos per ton, and the rest glue And starch..quot; Sun Bin, Sun Bin said:.Quot; we are making surimi themselves, the most time the most surimi to the end of the year market price at least 11000 yuan per ton, now 12000 yuan ~13000 yuan? If (high surimi content), the starch content is only 10% shrimp ball, the lowest factory price per ton of 12000 yuan. You have just been to that enterprise shrimp price 5300 yuan (per ton), that is not Fraud?.quot;
January 20, 2010, Shandong TV station "Life Gang" column has successfully entered a Weifang meat ball food processing plant production workshop, found the big secret of small meatballs:.Quot meatballs are actually meatballs, starch essence plus edible gum is no meat?? more than 20 meatballs, do not say fish and crabs, Even ordinary pork is not..quot;
Sun Bin introduced to this reporter:.Quot; we produce 32000 yuan per ton (RMB) per ton according to the formula of Japanese customers. The starch content is 0.2%. I made for American customers, the starch content is 40%, also 60%, all more than 10 thousand US dollars..quot;
ten After years of development and full competition, the market market has been relatively transparent. By visiting six large scale enterprises in Rizhao City, this newspaper reporter can get the general situation that the price of each ton of this kind of product and the corresponding surimi content of this kind of products is generally below 25%. The content of the fish surimi under 7000 yuan is generally below 25%. Is a low product; 8000 yuan ~10000 yuan product fish surimi content in 35%~45%; general export products by customers themselves, fish surimi content is generally more than 50%, high quality products, the so-called high products.
because of different consumption groups and consumption habits of differences, manufacturers recommend large catering enterprises and supermarkets to take fish surimi content slightly At the higher level, the farmers' market is generally a low content product.
at the same time, the leaders of many enterprises have shown the helplessness of the production of low quality fish balls for some enterprises in the industry. LAN, general manager of Lan Xin, said to the reporter of "look to the Oriental weekly": ".Quot", this low quality product will retire sooner or later. ..Quot />
the initial distribution of foreign marine biomimetic food into Beijing is generally the market of meat and aquatic products in the southwest suburb of Beijing and the wholesale market of new land.
in the meats market in the southwestern suburb of Beijing and the survey of the wholesale market for new farm produce, there is another --.quot in the industry,.Quot;
a merchant of meat and aquatic products in the southwest suburb:.Quot; Like, Shandong fish balls hang ice more, Fujian fish ball hanging ice less..quot; in the new land farmers market a merchant points to one of the bags of fish balls said to the magazine:.Quot, this is a little cheaper, but the ice is more..quot;
.Quot; ice.Quot; it is the surimi products through.Quot; frozen soak freeze.Quot After so many times, the surface of the product is wrapped up in a thick layer of ice so as to deceive the consumer to improve its profit space.
there are some small workshops in the organization. Sun Bin told the Oriental weekly:.Quot; there are some small workshops around Ann Anton, after you have been there. May feel the condition is unpleasant..quot;
.Quot; lack of standard.Quot; as a shield
the intellectual resources of our country's bionic food production enterprises are generally derived from the fisheries research institutions of local governments, or colleges of Ocean University of China, Shanghai Ocean University, etc.,
China Sea. Professor Xue Changhu of foreign university is one of the deep scholars in the industry, he is a national scientific research project.Quot; the research and development of freshwater and low value sea fish deep processing comprehensive utilization technology research and development.Quot; the project leader, the subject also got the cooperation of Changhua company.
Xue Changhu told "look to the Oriental weekly":.Quot; the key is to call for the call The state should make finer national standards, such as fish balls in surimi products, what is the standard of fish balls added to fish balls in fish balls?.quot;
Xue Changhu, adding starch and antifreeze in surimi products from both theory and technology is the..quot; surimi products should not The addition of starch.Quot is a misunderstanding, but it is particularly critical to add the content of starch content. In reality, it is the lack of standards for these key indicators.
.Quot; the Ministry of Commerce seems to have recently announced that fish protein added more than 30% is called fish ball..quot; Xue Chang Lake supplemented. Say,.Quot; however, the surimi of fish as the main raw material for fish balls still lacks the corresponding regulations, such as how much starch should be added to the surimi? No stipulates..quot;
.Quot; Japanese enterprises do fish balls, the general starch content is not more than 15%., but our raw and producing enterprises are possible from 5% to 50%, or even 60%. These are not ..Quot, a good vendor, said to the journal,.Quot, that illegal traders use this loophole to add a lot of starch to the processing of surimi products. If a lot of starch is not made from industrial starch, this thing is edible, which is not a food safety problem..quot;
according to some experts, Because the surimi products belong to the frozen food series, the fish surimi products are basically produced according to the standard of frozen food and the health indexes stipulated by the state, but the ingredients and ingredients are all according to the standard of the enterprise. Even the name of the product has just had some requirements, and the marine bionic food is required in the commodity. Add.Quot before the name; analog.Quot; two words, such as the use of.Quot; imitate shrimp ball.Quot; instead of directly using.Quot; shrimp.Quot;
public information display, to standardize the rapid development of this new industry, the relevant national authorities issued the "frozen surimi products" standard in 2003 according to Japanese standards (S) standard (S) C/T 3701-2003), and in 2005, it was included in the second batch of QS certified catalogues. In 2006, the State Administration of quality inspection (qqsiq) set up a famous Chinese brand product for surimi products, and 4 enterprises obtained the honor. Shandong Changhua company is one of them.
in several major provinces of marine bionic food, the quality supervision department of Fujian province is currently at 200. In May 9,.Quot was released; the recommended local standard for quick frozen fish balls.Quot; the local standard changed the way of judging product quality from color, taste, elasticity, taste, shape and hardness in the past by sensory methods,.Quot; first.Quot; quantitative provisions on protein content and starch content: protein content should not be reduced. In 7%, the starch content should not exceed 15%.
fish surimi supply gap
in the mid 90s of last century, China's marine bionic food industry grew rapidly at a rate of 30% ~ 50%, and China became one of the major bionic marine food producers in the world. Domestic bionic food production in Shandong, Fujian, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province East, Zhejiang and other provinces have developed rapidly, but at present, the industry has not yet appeared leading enterprises, the annual sales volume is less than 100 million small enterprises, and the annual sales volume is about 500 million yuan.
because of the rapid development of the industry, the supply of fish material is becoming more and more tense. The price of fish surimi continues to rise, the price of each ton From about 8000 yuan in 2007, up to about 13000 yuan.
.Quot; the enterprises of our scale here have their own surimi raw materials production base in Guangxi and Beihai, but the supply is not very tense, but the surimi products enterprises in some inland cities can only use other meat, starch and (edible) glue to make the products. ..Quot, director of the Sales Department of a local enterprise in Rizhao, said
Chen Jimei, President of the Fujian fisheries processing and Circulation Association, said in a 2009 interview with the Fujian media,.Quot, because of the lack of industry standards, the price of fish food in the market is different and the quality is different. Pills should be 80% of fish meat, 20% of starch, but some enterprises in order to occupy market share, reduce production cost, deliberately reduce the weight of fish meat and increase starch content?.quot;
in the industry industry, the marine bionic food industry still has the reality of lack of innovation. On the one hand, the new product appears less. The main product forms are fish balls, fish sausage, fish cake and other products. The academics and enterprises lack the guidance of consumer.Quot; the innovation of eating law.Quot;
Ren Hongwei and Hu Liu of China Fisheries Association, in 2010, also pointed out the status and development trend of surimi products in China,.Quot; the fish surimi products are located in the "hot pot cuisine" relative to the situation. It is narrower and restricts the consumption of surimi products..quot;
some enterprise technicians and salesmen are also starting to grumble in professional forums:.Quot; the vast majority of consumers only know that these products can be used to eat hot pot, but fish balls can actually be considered as a raw material for fish dishes. ..Quot />
one of the original original intention of developing marine bionic food by scientists around the world,
is that marine biomimetic foods can be effectively, reasonably and as far as possible to use marine low value fish resources, At the same time, it is also to deal with the possible.Quot after the increase in population; the food shortage crisis.Quot; provide a way of mitigation.
but the technology community's good intentions for the biomimetic food are in violation of some bad businesses.
the industry and Commerce after mastering the technology are out of the market competition. The pursuit of profit has begun to customize.Quot for customers and even completely without surimi for customers; fish balls.Quot; and other marine biomimetic foods.
food additives are added to improve food experience or strengthen nutrition, but some manufacturers use future maternity leave to take counterfeit and inferior products. There are some features of lies, such as a product that often requires one or more additives to deceive people's senses, so that even eating in the mouth is not easy to find the substantial.Quot; the fish ball additive.Quot; to make the color look good, the use of colorants, the use of preservatives and pH regulators for prolonging the shelf life. To prevent discoloration, the use of antioxidants, in order to add elasticity to the addition of gum??
for food additives, food processing enterprises are often interwoven with love and hate.
.Quot; there are issues of interest driven, and the psychological and conceptual immaturity of consumers. Industry is sometimes a layer of paper..quot with the chemical industry; one industry person exclaims in a professional forum. Another food processing maker also says:.Quot; we all agree that there is no food industry today without additives, but the word 'pill like additive' is a deep irritation to me. There is no additive to us. Where is the direction of food? Puzzled!.quot;
because the marine bionic food conforms to the food.Quot of twenty-first Century; it is simple, hygienic and nutritious.Quot; so some marine experts believe that twenty-first Century is the real.Quot; the marine century.Quot; the different functional biomimetic marine foods will get bigger Development of space.
however, this period of time through the interviews with enterprises, wholesale markets, experts, and with the active industry practitioners on the Internet food professional forum, the Chinese surimi industry has already had a variety of characteristics of the Chinese dairy industry before melamine.