Modern food has brought a lot of convenience to people, and there are more and more types of food, and it is developing in the direction of combining delicious and convenient. But as soon as there are many things, it is easy to be dazzling.
Today we will talk about this type of cuisine: chicken fillet, beef fillet, crab fillet... Not a stranger, right? Many people think that eating crab fillet is eating crab meat, there is no difference, and these "willow" food generations are often much cheaper than chicken, beef, crab, etc., when it is really "good quality and low price"!
In fact, the water of these foods with the word "willow" can be quite deep, so be careful.
01
What are the raw materials for "crab fillet"?
Anyway, there are no crabs inside!
Crab fillet, also known as crab stick, is a regular visitor to hot pot and often appears in fat-reducing meals. It tastes smooth and tender, full of umami, and indeed has the meaning of eating crab meat, and the price is one-tenth of that of crab, which feels like a rare money-saving delicacy. Some people also think that crab sticks are so cheap, are the raw materials bad sick crabs or dead crabs?
You can worry about it, it really isn't, because there is no crab meat in the crab stick! unbelief? Let's take a look at the ingredient list of two crab sticks:
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The ingredient list of these two crab sticks is very intuitive to show us: the first place in the ingredient list is surimi, which is the fish meat with seasonings, reinforcing powder and other accessories, and the aquatic food is mixed, which has nothing to do with crabs.
The production of crab sticks needs to meet the requirements of "SB/T 10379-2012 Quick-frozen Prepared Food", which does not require a high content of fish in crab sticks, ≥ 10%. And in the process of producing crab sticks, some starch, ice protein, etc. will be added, in order to make it have the flavor of crab meat, some will also add crab meat extract or crab extract.
So, even if you don't ask for crab meat, take a step back, how much "fish meat" do you think you can eat?
Of course, if you simply like to eat crab sticks, it is also recommended to choose a higher fish content, such as the following figure of the fish content of ≥50%, it is very good.
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Is "chicken fillet" a healthy food?
It is likely to be high in oil and fat
The "boneless chicken fillet" on the street has always been a very popular and delicious snack, especially around the school, and students often surround the three floors outside the three floors during the school hours. Some parents will also feel that chicken fillet is made of pure chicken, not only to relieve hunger but also to supplement protein, children are willing to eat it!
In fact, the outside of the chicken fillet is always wrapped in thick flour, eat a chicken fillet, the flour may account for two-thirds, chicken meat is really not eaten much. There are also some chicken fillets, which are the kind of preparations bought online, and before purchasing, you should take a closer look at the ingredient list, which is not all chicken, but also some starch, breadcrumbs, white sugar and so on.
For example, the nutrition facts of this chicken fillet is 13.5g/100g of protein, while the protein that can be ingested for chicken breast is 24.6g/100g[1], which is nearly half the difference in protein content compared to the two.
In addition, chicken fillets are almost always fried, and it can make you fall in all directions with its seductive smell and appearance, and you may eat a lot at a time without stopping. The main ingredient in the attractive aroma of fried foods is the carbonyl compound (alkenaldehydes) produced at high temperatures of oils and fats[2], which can only be produced at frying temperatures of 140-200 °C. [3]
Frying will make food lose more vitamin B, vitamin E, calories are still huge, in addition to long-term frying will also produce trans fatty acids, 3,4-benzopyrene and other harmful substances.
Having said all this, do you still think that chicken fillets are healthy?
To summarize:
Common foods with the word "willow", when buying, you must be careful: crab fillet does not have crab meat, chicken fillet is not all chicken, beef fillet is the same reason, not to mention the previous news has also exposed the incident about duck meat as beef.
Although these foods are cheap and convenient to eat, they are not recommended for regular consumption. It's okay to give your mouth a break occasionally, but don't eat it too often as a healthy food.
bibliography:
Yang Yuexin. Chinese Food Ingredient List, 6th Edition, Volume 2[M].Peking University Medical Press, 2018
[2]. Food Chemistry (2nd Edition)[M].Beijing. China Agricultural University Press, 2008:184
Yang Yuexin,Ge Keyou. The 2nd edition of the Chinese Nutrition Science Encyclopedia (volume 1). People's Medical Publishing House, 2019: 693
Author | Xue Qingxin Member of Chinese Nutrition Society Registered Nutrition Technician Health Manager Public Dietitian
Audit | Gao Chao is an associate researcher at the Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
This article was first published on the Scientific Debunking Platform
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