The raw materials have also become ordinary surimi, as well as starch, salt, amino acids, edible flavors, pigments and so on. Has been processed into crab sticks. The unwitting frozen surimi was quickly thawed and then frozen again. With the sound of duang, it had the same fiber feeling as crab meat, and then it was made into a stick shape of crab meat. After that, in order to simulate the color of crab skin, you must dye it with food pigment, and then add the edible essence with crab meat flavor, and you're done. Therefore, crab powder, lobster balls, fish tofu, fish balls, fish cakes and fish cakes are also used as cover-ups ... In addition to minced fish, some merchants will also add raw materials such as starch and soybean powder to reduce costs. How much meat there is depends on the manufacturer's conscience.
There are all kinds of fish balls, fish intestines, shrimp balls, shrimp slides and so on. And those crab sticks with a few dollars don't even have minced fish, or they are very few, almost all starch, seasoned with essence. The real crab stick is based on minced fish, with scallops, oysters and other seafood. After a series of processing, it is processed into high protein, low fat and nutritious food.
The taste and taste are very close to crab meat, so it is called crab stick. However, this kind of crab stick is expensive. It costs 40 yuan a catty to 50 yuan, and many shops are unwilling to use it. Most of the crab sticks on the market now have nothing to do with crab meat, and are basically processed with starch as the main raw material. Especially those crab sticks that cost eight or nine yuan a catty, if you think about it carefully, you will know that there won't be much meat. However, many people don't know that they have been "cheated" by the name of this crab stick.