Spicy strips, also known as big gluten, plain beef tendon and so on. , is a kind of food made of wheat flour or other grains and beans as the main raw materials. Spicy strips are a snack.

Spicy strips contain a large number of food additives (more than a dozen, 20 kinds). There is no uniform production standard, and the manufacturers of spicy strips in the market generally produce according to landmarks, and the implementation standards are generally DB4 1/T5 15-2007 and GB2760.

Xia, former dean of the College of Food Science and Technology of Hunan Agricultural University, said that spicy strips are products made by adding water, salt and sugar to flour and then seasoning. They are snacks processed by agricultural products. As far as additives are concerned, as long as they are added according to national standards, they will not affect personal health, so it cannot be said that spicy strips are junk food.

In recent years, under the catalysis of network culture, spicy strips are regarded as a symbol of "childhood taste" and become the first "network celebrity" among leisure snacks with an annual output value of 50 billion yuan.

On March 19, 15, 20 19, 3, 15, CCTV exposed dangerous spicy strips, and the production conditions were extremely unsanitary without any health protection measures. The staff admitted that the ingredients of shrimp and egg spicy strips are various additives except flour.