The raw material of spicy strips is mainly wheat flour.

Spicy strips are also called large gluten, vegetarian beef tendon, etc. It is a food made with wheat flour or other grains and beans as the main raw materials. Spicy strips are a kind of snack. Spicy strips contain a large number of food additives (more than a dozen or twenty kinds). There is no unified production standard. Spicy strips manufacturers on the market generally produce according to landmarks.

Xia Yanbin, former dean of the College of Food Science and Technology of Hunan Agricultural University, said that spicy strips are a product made by adding water, salt and sugar to flour, extruding and ripening, and then seasoning. It is a snack for processed agricultural products. Regarding additives, as long as they are added according to national standards, they will not have any impact on human health, so spicy strips cannot be said to be junk food.

The taste of childhood

In recent years, under the catalysis of Internet culture, spicy strips have been regarded as the symbol of "the taste of childhood". On March 15, 2019, the China Central Radio and Television Station’s March 15 Party exposed dangerous spicy strips, with extremely unhygienic production conditions and no health protection measures. The staff admitted that besides flour, the shrimp and egg spicy strips contain various additives.

On December 10, 2019, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued an announcement on "Strengthening the Quality and Safety Supervision of Seasoned Noodle Products", which will unify the classification of "spicy noodles" food and strengthen the control of raw materials and production processes. , advocating the reduction of salt, oil and sugar, and other six aspects, and put forward requirements for strengthening the quality and safety supervision of seasoned noodle products.