Street grilled intestines, food additives, bionic meat?

Original title: Street grilled intestines, food additives, bionic meat?
on the side of the road, often attracted by the smell of grilled sausages in the streets. But recently there are reports that the street 3 yuan a roast sausage are made of imitation meat, no meat do not say, but also additives, eating people carcinogenic. Is it true? Can street grilled intestines still be eaten?
imitation meat is not safe, food additives and back pot
In fact, imitation meat is not safe, reasonable use of food additives can also be reassuring.
"meat intestine" whether or not meat is not a factor in its safety. The key lies in whether the raw materials of meat intestines are hygienic and whether the production and storage conforms to the specifications. If the raw material is contaminated with microorganisms and is not heated enough when roasted, it can increase the safety risk.
interviewed in news reports that grilled intestines, which contain large amounts of food additives, are carcinogens rated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and can increase liver and kidney burdens and cause cancer. This is completely upside down, so that food additives back pot.
WHO does rate processed meat as carcinogenic, but its rationale is not food additives, but the processed meat itself. Bionic meat, which uses soy protein, does not have meat and does not have this cancer-causing concern. Moreover, food additives used in bionic meat intestines can be reassuring as long as they are used reasonably.
, the absence of meat in the "meat intestine" is not necessarily unsafe, let synths all the problems are attributed to food additives.
Soy protein powder and starch, bionic meat can be safely eaten
In fact, in food technology, this meat-free but eat similar to the meat of the grilled intestine is indeed there, it is called "bionic food."
bionic food is the use of food technology, with ordinary food simulation of natural food nutrition, flavor or shape, so there is also "artificial food" called. Bionic foods expand food resources and meet the different needs of consumers. If you eat "roasted intestines" without meat, maybe it's bionic food.
fact, the most widely used bionic foods in the food industry today are bionic marine food and bionic meat products. Common bionic meat products are meat-like products that are proportionally mixed with soy protein powder and starch, supplemented with the right amount of accessories, and then squeezed.
bionic food sounds unacceptable, but it's not completely nutritious or necessarily unsafe. Bionic meat products are mostly squeezed with a mixture of soy protein and starch, so that the bionic meat products taste similar to meat, soy's high protein provides a protein comparable to meat, you can understand is a "vegetarian meat." This bionic meat is less fat, and in a modern society with an increasing number of obesity and chronic diseases, this bionic meat may also be beneficial to health.
Street food there are security risks
if the business is using meatless bionic sausage, but pretend to be pure meat grilled sausage for profit, this kind of behavior is fake, fraud. As regulators, we should also strengthen supervision and crack down.
, that doesn't mean the meat can't be eaten, or that it must be harmful. As long as it is a formal production of products, reasonable use of additives, in fact, can be safe to eat, and will not have any harm.
need to be reminded that street barbecue sausage, etc. , often unsothy operation, the use of food raw materials are difficult to ensure safety, or eat less good. But it's a problem with all the street food, and it's not just grilled sausages.
, whether grilled intestines have meat or not has nothing to do with safety, let it is not due to food additives. Bionic meat intestines without meat is not nothing, because of the low fat content, for some of the more meat, obesity, the need to control the weight of the special population, eating such grilled intestines may be better.
Guangfeng (Director
Science and Technology Department, Food and Nutrition Information Exchange Center)