In fact, the original oyster sauce still has oysters. Like many ingredients, the initial discovery was wrong. I didn't know who was distracted when I started cooking, so I forgot to turn off the fire and stewed a pot of oysters as bone soup. As a result, the oysters melted into a paste, and the taste was quite fresh because they could not bear to throw it away. So I made the original oyster sauce.
Since it is a new discovery, more people should know about it, but it is too wasteful to burn oysters every time. Therefore, in today's ubiquitous industrial modernization, the industrial production of oyster sauce will never be done directly with oysters. Using "oyster bath water" (only a little oyster can be seen from the ingredient list), and adding some other ingredients, the taste is close to or even fresher, and it is easy to store and transport, and the cheap oyster sauce is off the assembly line in batches.
In the ingredient list of oyster sauce, besides oyster sauce, there are caramel color for coloring, sodium benzoate for prolonging shelf life, thickened wheat flour, xanthan gum and so on. Of course, you don't have to worry, these are all prepared according to national standards, and some food additives are also safe and harmless to the body.
Oyster sauce can greatly improve the freshness of food when cooking, and the fried dishes are more tender, smooth and delicious, so many people habitually put a little when cooking.
From a nutritional point of view, eating oyster sauce is also good, after all, it contains some oyster extract. Oysters are good things and are known as "gas stations for men and beauty salons for women". Modern nutrition research has found that oysters are rich in trace elements such as zinc, copper and selenium, which is of course very beneficial to human body.
But after all, it is a condiment, and the dosage will not be too much. It is better to supplement nutrition. Let's eat the relevant ingredients honestly. In addition, as a condiment, it also contains sodium, which is contrary to the concept of limiting salt and light diet that we have always advocated. Especially for people with poor blood pressure control, it is also an "invisible salt". It's better to put less, otherwise it's bad for blood pressure. Also, because oysters are seafood with high purine content, it is better to eat as little as possible for some patients with gout with high uric acid.
1, the oyster sauce bottle is turned upside down. Look at the bottom of the bottle. The high-quality oyster sauce is reddish in color and the inferior oyster sauce is black.
2, look at the ingredients list, oyster sauce is of high quality, it is best to have a national food label starting with GBT.