Beef jerky is generally made by marinating yellow beef with other spices. Beef is the second largest meat food of the Chinese, second only to pork, beef has high protein content, low fat content, delicious taste, is loved, and enjoys the reputation of "the proud son of meat". Beef jerky is a small snack made by specially drying beef through a series of air drying and some processing, which not only maintains the chewy flavor of beef, but also does not deteriorate for a long time.
The raw materials of pure beef jerky are mainly beef, Chinese medicinal materials, spices, etc., which are made by unique technology, with delicious taste, unique flavor, rich nutrition, suitable for both north and south. In the nineties of the last century, the domestic beef jerky fever arose, and now the five-spice beef jerky is cheap, especially the five-spice beef jerky sold in tourist attractions is particularly cheap, 50 yuan a pound of spiced beef jerky abounds, 50 yuan can buy a pound of spiced beef jerky, is this possible? Why are some beef jerky so cheap?
At present, the price of fresh beef sold in most local farmers' markets is about 35 yuan per catty, and the cost of raw materials is about 58 yuan, and the profits of these products will increase by a large margin every time they go through a link.
In order to reduce the cost of beef jerky production, one is to increase the use of condiments, and now the surface of the beef jerky sold is covered with spices, and the price of spices is cheaper than beef jerky, especially in tourist stores, commodity fairs and trade fairs, the surface of the beef jerky often has a thick layer of spices, the proportion is about 50%, and the raw material for the production of this beef jerky is beef to a large extent, but the spices are added. In order to reduce production costs, the key is the reduction of raw material prices, to effectively reduce production costs, it is necessary to find low-price alternatives, such as horse meat, rabbit meat, pork, etc., similar to beef is the male and female pork eliminated by the farm, every year in the country to eliminate tens of millions of breeding pigs, sufficient supply, low price, usually add these cheap female pork, greatly reduce the cost of production, but there is no beef jerky is too little, generally there are some beef, is the proportion of how much is different.
Sows because it is for breeding offspring, feeding time is relatively long, sows are impossible to raise for a long time, once they lose their reproductive ability will be eliminated slaughtered on the market, the age of the general sow to stop breeding is 6 years old, in the production is generally about 5 litters to consider elimination, pig farmers will never waste the eliminated sows, they will do everything possible to eliminate the sow sales cash. The price of culled sows is definitely cheaper than that of normal fat pigs, and the profits are relatively large, so these culled sows will be slaughtered for sale or used as raw materials for processed products. Tens of millions of heads are eliminated and slaughtered every year, and this resource is very abundant, and it can be said that no female pork is wasted. So so many female porks go there every year, and some of the female porks that are eliminated and slaughtered are sold as fat pork in the farmers' market, and most of them are processed as substitutes for beef and mutton, why are some consumers buying beef jerky so cheap.
In the nineties of the last century, when spiced beef jerky was more prevalent, some processors went to our counties in Guizhou Province to produce primary beef jerky products - salty cooked beef, we have more horses in northwest Guizhou, the price is cheaper than cattle, horse meat is only half the price of beef, and horse meat has no special taste, and it is not easy to identify it when mixed with beef, so a head of beef and three horse meat are cooked together, and the surface is not clear whether beef or horse meat, the production cost has been greatly reduced, and the profit has increased significantly. Counterfeit spiced beef jerky is born from this, and the spiced beef jerky sold in the market is relatively cheap.