Many people eat takeout every day because it is convenient and can quickly satisfy dietary needs.

But have you ever wondered why some takeaways arrive so much faster than you think?

From order to meal, it might only take ten minutes, even faster than cooking our own meals?

The investigative team reveals some inside stories!

The dish package business is booming and the cost may be only 4 yuan!

?I thought it was a delicious hot dish prepared by the chef, but the reality is that when you place an order through your mobile phone, some merchants will take out long-term refrigerated dish packages!

After simple reheating with a microwave and other tools, the hot dish can be removed from the pot and placed in a plastic lunch box in a few minutes, and then delivered to the consumer by the takeaway staff.

The reporter found a dish pack dealer in Longgang District. The dish packs they represent include 25 kinds of dishes, with unit prices ranging from 4.2 yuan to 8 yuan, covering various hot-selling delicacies from Guangdong, Sichuan and Hunan.

?According to the dealer, a pack of dish packs is usually about 200 grams, which is exactly the amount of a takeout plate.

Distributors said that in the catering industry, dish packages are no longer a secret, especially in takeout shops, where they are more common.

Take, for example, an ordinary diner.

If the restaurant prepares its own ingredients, it can order up to 200 takeout orders a day, but if you use a dish pack, you only need to prepare rice.

Then, the restaurant's sales can double to ten times, and it can sell at least more than 2,000 takeaways a day.

Distributors of meal kits say most dishes using meal kits come from fast-food restaurants and takeaway outlets.

"To be honest, if you hire a chef, which costs 7,000 to 10,000 yuan per month, you are better off buying this ready-made." The shelf life of ordinary ingredients in the refrigerator is only two to three days, and the shelf life of dish packages is

It can be between half a year and a year, for example, the shelf life of dish packs is up to 18 months.

In other words, the takeaway you consumed may have been stored for a long time.

The dealer shows that the production dates of both dish packages are in 2020.

When asked if it was out of date, the dealer said this date was normal.

"The takeaway is made from instant bread? We ordered the takeaway and thought it was freshly fried. What's the difference in buying instant rice in the supermarket. Some consumers are angry that the takeaway is made from instant bread and even think it is cheating consumers

Behavior. According to Health Times, convenience food packaging is commonly referred to as dish packs and cooking packaging in the food industry. It belongs to ready-to-eat hot dishes (i.e. hot meals) in processed products of prepared dishes, that is, processed frozen, refrigerated or.

Room-temperature food can be eaten by quickly heating it in a hot water bath or microwave. There are many frozen food packages on e-commerce platforms. Sales data on e-commerce websites show that the prices of various food packages range from 5 yuan to 10 yuan.

etc., involving dozens of dishes, and the single product with the highest sales volume involves more than 180,000 servings. Some people also say that it cooks rice faster than fried rice, and I will continue to use them in the future." This comment appeared on the e-commerce platform.

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Almost many people in the catering industry commented: "I have been using this cooking bag since the store opened." According to industry insiders, many stores use cooking bags to save time and use quick meals when there are many customers taking out.

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In fact, in addition to being stale, takeaway food is also high in oil and salt and has an unhygienic environment that can affect your health.

But eating takeout for a long time and heavy taste can induce cardiovascular diseases.

In order to pursue taste, takeaways usually add a large amount of salt, MSG, chicken essence and various seasonings, which makes it easy for people to develop a "heavy taste" dietary preference.

The most popular takeout dishes on the Internet are Malatang, mutton skewers, hot and sour potato shreds, etc. They are also very fragrant!

?Foods with strong taste are prone to excessive intake of sodium, which is a risk factor for high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease!

Even foods with strong taste are "companions" of gastric cancer.