There are many kinds of hot pot meatballs, including beef meatballs, pork meatballs, fish meatballs, chicken meatballs, Baoxin meatballs, Danshui meatballs, tribute meatballs and so on. It is best to choose according to personal preference. Shrimp balls, fish balls and tribute balls need not be fried, and beef balls can be fried or not according to your own preferences. The calories of meatballs depend on your own ingredients and the proportion of ingredients.
At present, most meatballs sold in the market are added with starch and food pigments, but as long as they are produced by regular manufacturers and approved by the national inspection office, the additives used are safe to eat. The fish glue mentioned in some product ingredients actually refers to mushy fish. After being smashed, chopped and hammered, the fish becomes sticky, so some companies also call it surimi. The main material of most varieties of seafood balls is surimi, so in the non-staple food industry, these foods called seafood balls are classified as surimi products.