Oden, called oden in Japan, can be simply understood as fish soup stew, except it is not spicy and oily, it is similar to Malatang.

After it spread to China, it became widely popular among the public, especially office workers who often choose to eat oden when they don't have time to cook themselves.

In addition, the students also eat a lot.

The previous publicity for oden was that it is made with fish soup and is very nutritious.

However, recently, a fire broke out in the backyard of the oden. A Japanese food reporter named Kazuo Gunji broke the news in the online magazine "Business Journal" that the oden in Japanese convenience stores is very dangerous. "You see those fish balls that are cooked for 8 hours and are not rotten.

Because unscrupulous merchants add a lot of additives. "So is this really the case? 1. Are there any food additives in Oden? The first thing we need to determine is, in addition to eating aquatic products directly fished from the river, or eating them directly.

Freshly cut raw meat, and none of the food we eat does not contain food additives.

Countries around the world have different definitions of food additives. According to my country's Food Hygiene Law (1995), food additives are added to food to improve the color, aroma, taste and other qualities of food, as well as to meet the needs of preservation and processing technology. Synthetic or natural substances.

In other words, Chinese food additives include all the condiments we use in cooking, boiling, steaming, frying, and deep-frying.

In this case, how can there be no food additives in oden?

2. What are the effects of food additives? Since apart from eating fresh food directly, there is no cooked food that does not contain additives.

In other words, whether food additives are used in oden is not what we need to worry about. What we need to worry about is whether the food additives used in it exceed the standard.

As Sun Baoguo, an authoritative expert on food additives in my country and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said: There are at least 30 kinds of food additives in good infant formula. If it is a foreign product, there are even more food additives.

Chinese people are generally very afraid of food additives, but after the child is born, we feed him infant formula with thirty or forty kinds of food additives. Isn’t this contradictory? In fact, the public’s misunderstanding of food additives is

There is no distinction between illegal additives and food additives.

As long as the added food additives do not exceed the standard, then we don’t need to worry too much.

And in our country, fish balls and other ingredients used in oden are also tested before leaving the factory. Basically, there is no problem that the food additives added in them exceed the standard.

3. In what aspect does the hygienic problem of oden lie? In fact, the biggest problem with oden is not its food additives, but its temperature.

Since oden often has to be cooked for a day, in order to avoid the waste of oden, most merchants will not adjust the temperature of oden too high.

Some food technology media once reported that the temperature of oden cooking will never exceed 70°C.

Temperatures around 70°C have absolutely no effect on killing bacteria. The long-term temperature of the oden cooking pot at 70°C will lead to the growth of bacteria.

In October this year, the Quality Control Section of the Xi'an Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted random inspections of "Oden" stalls at the entrances of primary and secondary schools in the city. Among 19 samples, 3 samples had high bacterial counts and 5 samples had high coliform bacteria.

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From this point of view, the real problem with oden is not the food additives in it, but its temperature.

It is impossible for every oden sold on the roadside to contain excessive food additives, but the growth of bacteria caused by long-term maintenance at 70°C is definitely a problem for the entire oden industry.

In addition, long-term and repeated cooking of Oden ingredients will also lead to the loss of nutrients in the ingredients.

So, even though it does taste good, we don’t recommend eating too much of it.