Do you love duck?
Roast duck sauce duck brine duck ......
But recently some online
Dig into the article "Roast Duck Cat Greasy".
There is a lot of doubt
According to the article:
"A roast duck costs 18 yuan, but a live duck costs more than 40 yuan"
Is the processed duck still cheaper?
in these articles
Words such as "dead duck" and "sick duck" are often used
to describe the duck used in the roast duck restaurant
And pointed directly at the owner of the roast duck restaurant
"Unscrupulous merchants with a desire for profit"
Is this true?
In order to understand the situation, the reporter visited and investigated three roast duck restaurants in Wuhan with an average price of 30 yuan each. Among them, the staff of Zanzan's shredded roast duck and Sun's shredded roast duck said that the raw material they used was frozen white-striped duck, and the owner of Yang's shredded roast duck used half muscovy duck (mule duck), "It is a knocked duck sent by the Honghu slaughterhouse, it is a good duck, and we killed it ourselves."
The reporter also consulted Nanjing's high-priced, and at the same time popular roast duck shop, the average price of the roast duck sold is 27 yuan / catty, a 3-4 kg roast duck needs more than 80 yuan. The clerks of both stores told reporters that the ducks used in the stores are all live ducks that are freshly slaughtered on the same day, and the price will be more expensive than frozen ducks.
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Comparing several roast duck restaurants in Wuhan and Nanjing, the reporter found that the price of white-striped duck is relatively cheap, and live duck is even more expensive. The different raw materials used in roast duck are directly related to the price difference of roast duck, and some low-cost roast duck restaurants are indeed made of frozen white striped duck.
White-striped duck refers to a meat duck that has been processed, removed from the feathers, internal organs and surface horns, and sold directly through pre-packaging. So, is white-striped duck safe?
According to reports, as early as 2018, Hou Shuisheng, academician of the Beijing Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, introduced in an interview that the small white duck is the raw material of most of the "18 yuan roast duck", the duck breeding period is about 30 days, the slaughter weight is 1.9 to 2.0 kg, and the weight after roasting mature food is about 0.80 kg, that is, about 1.6 catties.
Some netizens questioned that it can be slaughtered after a month of breeding, and it will not be a fast-growing duck with hormones, right? In this regard, Hou Shuisheng explained that this is a new breed cultivated by breeders through genetic improvement, and the short growth period is not because of hormones, but because of eating nutritious and balanced feed, consumers can buy it with confidence. Of course, due to the short growth period, the little white striped duck has a high moisture content in the muscles and the meat is tender, which is not suitable for some cooking methods, such as stewed duck soup.
In other words, there is no causal relationship between the length of the duck's growth period and whether it is healthy, but only related to the old or tender meat. The growth period of the old wild hemp duck in two or three years, because of the variety, feeding method, feeding time is different, the cost of breeding is higher, the price is naturally much higher than the small white duck, the average price is about two hundred yuan.
Since there is no problem with ducks, the price is 18 yuan, is the owner of the roast duck shop doing "loss-making business"?
Hou Shuisheng calculated an account: the roasting cost of a duck is about 2 yuan, the ex-factory price of the carcass of the small white duck is 8.2 yuan, plus the wholesale circulation link (including refrigeration fees, freight, etc.) is 3 yuan per piece, plus the roasting cost of about 2 yuan, the total cost of a roast duck of about 1.6 catties is 13.2 yuan, compared with the selling price of 18 yuan, there is a profit of 4.8 yuan.
In addition, compared with live duck, roast duck only has duck meat, and duck down, duck gizzards, duck paws, duck tongue, duck intestines, etc. are less, the price of marinated duck tongue exceeds 100 yuan / catty, and the unit price of duck heart and duck claws also exceeds that of roast duck.
In short, the price of live duck is more expensive than roast duck is caused by a variety of factors such as duck breed, feeding method, freshness, weight, portion, growth cycle, etc., the frozen duck used in the roast duck restaurant is less expensive than live duck, but this does not mean that frozen duck has food safety problems.
Shanghai News Broadcasting Comprehensive Self-Broadcasting, Xinhua News Agency, etc
Editor: Chen Wen
Editor in charge: Yan Ping