Australians especially love seafood, Australia is also rich in seafood,
Many Chinese who come to Macao to travel will also plunge into the Fish Market.
Have a seafood addiction!
In seafood, salmon is the constant darling of diners,
Many fish markets or seafood shops sell salmon.
However, the salmon you eat,
Is it really salmon?
In the image above, is there salmon on the left, or salmon on the right, or both?
However, the answer is shocking, the right one,
It's not really salmon!
A strange thing happened in Yongzhou, Hunan Province, China.
A 66-year-old Mr. Tang felt itchy skin unbearable,
At first, he thought he was suffering from some kind of skin disease.
Thus buying ointment to apply antipruritic,
But the condition did not improve,
On the contrary, it is getting worse day by day.
Itching unbearable him,
Finally came to the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University for examination,
After a doctor examines his skin,
Found that the skin itself is not a big problem,
So why does Mr. Tang always feel itchy skin?
At the doctor's meeting, Mr. Tang went to take a film,
The doctor who got the film was shocked!
These white dots are densely packed,
What the hell is this?!
The doctor quickly gave Mr. Tang an emergency treatment,
Three days before and after,
The doctor draws nearly 1,000 such "white spots" with a syringe from the drainage tube,
And these white spots, confirmed,
It's all "parasites"!
What exactly Did Mr. Tang do,
Will such a large number of parasites be parasitized in the body?
Under the interrogation of the doctor,
Tang Xian said,
"I ate salmon in those days,
It's the kind in a restaurant. ”
The same thing happened in California, USA,
According to The Washington Post,
A California man loves to eat "salmon fillets" in bulk from the supermarket every day.
Later, because of diarrhea and blood in the stool, he came to the hospital for examination,
The doctor drew a tapeworm 1.6 meters long from his body!
This man is very strange,
This marks the sashimi of the "Norwegian salmon",
How could such a terrible parasite appear in your own body?
Coincidentally, according to the Sunday Times,
A man from Singapore, after eating the supermarket "Norwegian salmon",
A tapeworm 2.8 meters long was drawn from the body,
It is 1.5 times the height of the patient.
Such inevitability occasionally makes people wonder,
As we all know, Norwegian salmon is world-famous and has extremely strict sanitary and quarantine standards,
Logically, the probability of parasites should be extremely small,
But these diners who eat the so-called salmon,
But after that, they were all tormented by parasites...
This is because many people are confused by the three words "salmon",
Salmon is not terrible,
The terrible thing is,
The huge trade secret behind salmon...
In Chinese, salmon and salmon mean the same thing.
However, salmon in Japanese usually refers to white salmon (also known as leaf lip fish),
Salmon refers to Atlantic salmon (also known as salmon or salmon) that is farmed in Places like Norway.
It is true that the Japanese do not have the habit of eating "salmon" raw.
Because "salmon" are prone to parasites.
But norway farmed salmon,
It is widely eaten as sashimi in Japan.
It is also true that sashimi may contain parasites, but the salmon of the regular channel,
More than 90% is imported from Norway, and this salmon will have a national import and export quarantine.
In general, there are no parasites.
Therefore, the US FDA stipulates that fish must be frozen at -35 °C for 15 hours, or -20 °C frozen for 7 days before raw food.
The EU requires -20 °C freezing for more than 1 day.
Yes, you read that right, real salmon,
Basically refers to "Norwegian salmon",
But due to the high price of Norwegian salmon, the production is not very large,
Do you think those small supermarkets and buffet restaurants will use Norwegian salmon as an ingredient?
So,
They're trying to keep costs down.
And at the same time, there are those who do not want to miss the "salmon" craze,
immediately
There was a fake salmon in the market.
The scientific name of this goods is "rainbow trout".
Recently, a program called "Economic Half Hour" by CCTV Finance reported such a message:
In the Longyangxia Reservoir in Gonghe County, Qinghai Province, there is currently the highest and largest salmon farm in China. Now, the salmon on the Tibetan Plateau is becoming more and more prosperous, and one-third of the salmon in the domestic market is produced here.
However, salmon is a marine fish, not a freshwater fish,
Just like soy sauce is not oil, cooking wine is not wine,
Although there is a word "sea" in the name,
But Qinghai has no sea.
How can salmon be farmed in such a water environment?
It turns out that these "salmon" are not authentic salmon at all.
It is the "fake salmon" mentioned above - rainbow trout!
Rainbow trout is far less fleshy than salmon, and because it is a freshwater fish,
So it is very easy to infect the parasite,
If it is not eaten properly, the harm to the human body is in the unspoken...
So, since rainbow trout is not suitable for sashimi,
The taste and appearance are not the same as salmon,
So why do many merchants take rainbow trout and pretend to be salmon?
And how do you impersonate a salmon?
It all started ten years ago...
The large-scale culture of rainbow trout has been going through 10 years.
But the sales of rainbow trout have not improved,
Because its flesh is not bright, the meat is firm, and the freshwater fish is not healthy and is not suitable for raw food,
Must be cooked to eat,
Therefore, the market demand for rainbow trout has not been high.
So, some businessmen who are accustomed to exploiting loopholes have come up with an idea -
If you can sell rainbow trout as salmon,
Made sashimi and sold to diners,
Wouldn't the market for rainbow trout be opened at once?
But I want to sell rainbow trout as salmon,
There are two problems to be solved first.
One is the problem of flesh color,
Rainbow trout have a whiteish flesh color, like this:
The flesh color of rainbow trout is originally white, while the flesh color of salmon is orange-red.
To solve this problem, the merchants came up with a solution.
The reason why the flesh color of salmon is orange-red is because salmon like to eat krill and other foods.
Krill is rich in astaxanthin (a kind of carotene),
This gives the salmon its flesh an orange-red color.
So, these merchants began to add chemically synthesized astaxanthin to the feed of rainbow trout,
Rainbow trout only after eating astaxanthin for a long time,
The flesh color naturally turns orange-red!
Solving the meat color problem, it is the turn of the meat quality problem.
As mentioned above, the meat of rainbow trout is not as fat and tender as salmon,
Eating raw can't be chewed at all.
As a result, many merchants in the production of "rainbow trout sashimi" products,
Deliberately cut the rainbow trout very thinly,
Call it "thin cut"...
In this way, the thin fillets make the fish meat of rainbow trout also have the taste of "melting in the mouth",
Merchants use this to deceive consumers,
Known as "salmon"!
Not just some restaurants and buffet restaurants,
Salmon products sold in many supermarkets are sometimes passed off as rainbow trout meat.
Authentic Norwegian salmon is sold at a high price and the purchase cost is also high.
Rainbow trout, on the other hand, is relatively cheaper.
After being dyed and sliced by the merchant,
Rainbow trout meat is even the same color and taste as salmon,
Live a "high imitation salmon"!
So many small supermarkets use rainbow trout to pretend to be salmon to sell to customers,
Label the salmon again,
Absolutely can be faked!
Even experts may not be able to tell the difference!
In such a situation, merchants and supermarkets will sell rainbow trout wholesale at a very low price to the price of salmon to sell to customers,
The profits in this can be imagined.
However, rainbow trout is, after all, rainbow trout,
The imitation technology is superb,
It also doesn't break through genetic compilation into salmon,
And rainbow trout is a freshwater fish,
It cannot be eaten raw!
Many vendors will explain to customers:
"Salmon is a generic term, and rainbow trout and even other fish can be called salmon."
But of course this is only one side of the vendor's words,
From the point of view of biological classification: salmonids belong to sea trout and rainbow trout,
Only sea trout is called salmon,
Rainbow trout is a freshwater fish, but belongs to the salmon family,
But not salmon!
Freshwater fish, on the other hand, should not be eaten raw.
Freshwater fish and shrimp are parasitic with a variety of parasites,
For example, lung flukes, Chinese mycodychiasis, jaw-mouth nematodes, Taenia pallidum,
Raw food can infect the human body,
Some are even deadly.
Because of the preference for sashimi or half-cooked fillets (for example, the fillets in the fillet porridge are only blanched in the outer part, and the middle part is still raw),
Nearly 2% of raw freshwater fish diners have been infected with Clonorchidium cerex,
It is 5 times the infection rate of the average person.
Eating raw freshwater fish is very dangerous,
Even marine fish that once lived in fresh or brackish water should not be eaten raw.
Includes migratory salmon.
Researchers in the United States have tested and counted these fish.
All migratory wild salmon are parasitic with heterocephalus, some parasitizing taeniae,
These parasites can infect the human body.
Instead, salmon farmed in the sea did not detect parasites.
Therefore, only marine fish that live entirely in the sea are usually used to make sashimi.
Since salmon has such a complex trade secret behind it,
How do we buy salmon later?
Elated, carefully selected salmon,
Came home and found that it was rainbow trout,
The scene must have been awkward.
So, learning to pick authentic salmon is a must-have skill for sashimi lovers!
The re-image of the disguise is also false,
Let's take a look at how to distinguish rainbow trout from salmon!
Distinguish salmon from rainbow trout:
Rainbow trout and salmon have very different fat layer textures.
Salmon is fatter,
The fat texture is coarse and loose.
Rainbow trout is different,
Its fat texture is stiff and stiff, and the lines are thinner.
Let's look at the diagram to compare:
salmon
Rainbow trout (false salmon)
For example, the fat line of Norwegian salmon meat is white, especially obvious, and the flesh color is orange-red and bright.
Rainbow trout flesh color is light orange,
The fat line is not obvious.
(Salmon)
(Rainbow trout)
(Left: Salmon, Right: Rainbow Trout)
(Left: Rainbow trout, Right: Salmon)
Followed by meat quality,
Salmon bites very full in the mouth,
Rainbow trout bites very hard.
Pictured is a real salmon (below)
True salmon (edge fat and tender)
Rainbow trout at a wedding party (false salmon)
Of course, the price of authentic salmon and rainbow trout is even more different,
You get what you pay for,
Even the tax-free Mercedes-Benz is higher than the QQ price.
The salmon sashimi that can be eaten in the cafeteria for more than a dozen pieces must be fake!
The price of salmon varies from place to place,
But it must be several times that of rainbow trout.
Everyone must not be greedy to buy cheap salmon,
Food comes first,
Your own body comes first!
As long as it is a commodity in this world,
It will involve interests,
There are many red-eyed and black-hearted vendors,
The list goes on all over the world.
Salmon is a kind of marine fish,
Even if it is artificially farmed, it needs to be cultivated in the seawater,
Even if sharks are farmed in fresh water, they will not become salty.
Freshwater fish should not be eaten raw,
Be sure to cook it before eating,
When buying salmon,
Everyone must polish their eyes!