On the table, meat occupies a very important seat, is an indispensable daily food!
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