The viewers who watched the film "God of Cookery" will definitely remember the scenes of Zhou Xingchi's pissing oxen pills as ping-pong balls. The "pizza-eating bolus" played in the movie is coveted. In winter, the weather is cold, and it is a pleasant matter for relatives and friends to sit around and eat hot pot. When eating hot pot, pee beef balls are often an indispensable ingredient on the table. However, reporters recently discovered that in the major wholesale markets of the city, they discovered that some of the main raw materials for peeing beef balls on the market are pork, chicken and various additives. The beef content is zero!

Informed sources said that a lot of bulk meatballs are processed by the unscrupulous companies in small workshops. As for what materials they use, only they know best. The photojournalist Zhang Tengfei’s audience who watched the movie “God of Cookery” will definitely remember Stephen Chow’s scenes of playing ping pong balls as ping pong balls. The movie “Pissing Pills” being performed by the gods is coveted. In winter, the weather is cold, and it is a pleasant matter for relatives and friends to sit around and eat hot pot. When eating hot pot, pee beef balls are often an indispensable ingredient on the table. However, reporters recently discovered that in the major wholesale markets of the city, they discovered that some of the main raw materials for peeing beef balls on the market are pork, chicken and various additives. The beef content is zero!

Phenomenon Beef Punch 8 yuan a pound is not the cheapest yesterday noon, the reporter went to a wholesale market near Xingye Street, selling meatball stalls next to the meat stalls, one filled with meatballs plastic pots placed in a glass window The business is very prosperous, with more than a dozen varieties of beef balls, pork balls, fish balls, and shrimp balls. Although the variety of balls is different, their price is almost the same. Each sample is 15 yuan/kg, and the bigger pound of beef balls is 20 yuan/kg. The reporter noticed that all the balls are in bulk and there is no place of origin, site or production date. "Is there a bag of pee beef balls?" the reporter asked. "Yeah, you wait." The female stall owner quickly pulled out a whole pack of pee beef balls from the bottom of the freezer behind him, weighing 5 pounds, priced at 45 yuan, and 18 yuan/kg. After bargaining, the reporter finally bought the package of beef balls at a price of 8 yuan per catty.

The stallholders said that these are qualified meatballs and there is absolutely no problem with quality. “There are 50 yuan for clothes and 200 yuan for one, so there is nothing strange about the difference in the price of meatballs, but the cheap ones are certainly not so delicious.” As to why they are not so tasty, stall owners are reluctant to go into details. “The pounds of beef balls I sell are the same as those sold in supermarkets and hot pot shops. There is pulp in them.” The female stall owner said mysteriously that there is another type of ball that is solid and cheaper. "There are bad things in that kind of ball. I don't dare to sell it. It's easy to eat something." The female stall owner said that the female stall owner was reluctant to disclose the ingredients.

Investigating the content of beef in peed beef balls was actually zero. Mr. Zhang, who is purchasing meatballs, said: “Almost every one has bought it. If it takes a long time, it can be compared. After that, it will only go to that household. If it is only with the naked eye, I can't see which kind is good."

From the appearance point of view, the reporter to buy pee beef balls and supermarkets, hot pot shop is almost, but when the reporter looked at the package on the back of the list of ingredients, it was really shocked.

The main ingredients marked on the ingredient list are pork and chicken. The ingredients include various additives and seasonings. It does not contain beef ingredients! What exactly are these meatballs made of? The female stall owner claimed that beef balls are said to be made by mixing cow blood in starch, but this claim has not been confirmed. Informed sources told reporters that many bulk meatballs were processed by unscrupulous companies in small workshops. As for what materials they use, only they know best.

The reporter decided to open up a breakthrough point from the food additive wholesalers. The reporter then found a store that specializes in food additives and said that he wanted to open a hot pot shop. Since he had just set foot in this industry, he would like to invite professionals to enlighten him. A manager described in detail the production methods of various meatballs: "No matter what you want to do, I have additive ingredients here and I guarantee that it will be real."

The manager proudly said that in the winter, their business was very good, and many people did it. "After joining these kinds of things, few people can tell whether they are authentic meatballs." "The beef balls don't contain a bit of beef. Can people not doubt it?" the reporter asked. "You can put beef, and you can hold it. Many people add other meat. With these additives, you can add more starch," replied the manager.

Calculate 1 kg of regular beef balls, the minimum cost of 40 yuan "8 yuan a pound of urine beef balls inside there certainly is no meat." Once made meatball processing business for nearly 10 years, Li Jun (a pseudonym) to the reporter calculated an account. "The lean meat that makes meatballs is more than 10 yuan a pound. How can it be sold so cheap?"

Li Jun told reporters that the general production of authentic beef balls is to use 5 kg of beef plus half a catty of water, usually also add some starch, to enhance the viscosity of the balls, so that the meatballs are not easy to spread; seasoning only MSG, salt and pepper three Nothing else is added. According to the normal procedure, it takes at least 1 hour to make a batch of balls. Generally, 1 kg of beef can produce beef balls of about 1.1 kg to 1.3 kg. Now the wholesale price of beef is 36 yuan/kg and 1 kg of beef balls. The minimum cost is about 40 yuan. "Now the beef balls sold on the market are not pure meat. Even the kind I said is not. The proportion of meat that can reach 50% is already the limit," Li Jun said.

Professor Nong Shaozhuang, a professor at the Dalian University of Technology's School of Food and a member of the China Food and Nutrition Society, said that the extracts used to make balls are readily available on the market and have no nutritional value for the human body. "At present, there are no clear manufacturers of bulk meatballs. Most of them come from Shandong, and the composition of fish or shrimp is less than 10%."

There is no uniform standard for the production of secret meatball products. According to the introduction of Nongshaozhuang, the state only issued inspection standards for fish balls in 1988, but this standard has already expired. With the help of Li Jun, the reporter contacted a manufacturer of meatballs in the city. “I’ll tell you so. The meat content of many meatballs on the market may not even reach 10%, because there is no uniform standard for meatball products. , how many companies have to decide!” The person in charge said that the production of meatballs has only one minimum standard in the “national standard”—not less than 10% of meat content. Even with such a low standard, most small businesses still cannot do it.

"More meat and good meat, big brands can sell the price, small business products to whom?" The owner of the meatball company admitted to reporters that small businesses in order to survive must be in reducing the price and cost savings On the "down time." "Meatballs have low profitability and are affected by Raw Material prices. The added value of products is even less than 20%. The removal of processing costs hardly makes money. This has also led illegal companies to take risks and process inferior meatballs.

Li Jun said frankly that he never eats the meatballs he has made. "If you want to eat hotpots, buy the meat and go home and make balls."

Labeling on the ingredient list Main raw materials: pork, chicken Ingredients: animal fats, starches, food additives (I+G, complex phosphate, soy protein isolate, food essence, acetylated glyceryl monostearate, sorbitol, carrageenan) Egg whites, sugar, salt, soy sauce, and sesame oil. In other words, the ingredients of beef in these pee beef balls are zero! “I+G is also known as an additive that enhances the aroma of foods. It also enhances the water retention, gel strength and yield of meat products.” Professor Nong explained the role of additives. . "The use of soy protein isolates between 2% and 5% will help preserve water, preserve fat, prevent gravy segregation, improve quality and improve taste."

Unannounced visits to the Record: "If the beef balls do not have a beefy taste, how can someone do it?" During an unannounced interview, the reporter asked the manager of a food additive sales shop. "You can add beef essence oil essence." The manager took out a bottle of sample, "This bottle of 500 grams of beef essential oil essence is gouache, 40 yuan a bottle, can process 500 pounds of meat!" During the conversation, the reporter found food Additive "all-powerful":

Make the balls look more white and whiteners can be used;

Increase the viscosity of the ball, you can add gelatin;

To make the ball elastic, you can add a kind of additive called "special brittle";

Want to adjust the color, you can use "red red pigment";

Want to preserve water, add "fresh source" additives...

Weapons "hope to taste" four tricks can be discerned meat quality consumers how to buy a genuine meatball? Industry sources said that when consumers buy frozen meatballs, they should try to choose the products of regular manufacturers. Meatballs that are lower than the price of similar products should be bought with care. When picking meatballs, they can use “see, smell, pinch, taste” four strokes. Simple identification.

Hope: 100% of the beef balls are gray in color, while meatballs with other meats and additives are dark black. For some pork balls, whitening agents are added because of the addition of brighteners, and meatballs with bright colors may add pigments.

Smell: Poor quality meatballs have bloody smell and urine smell. Chicken flavor is very strong. In addition to adding a small amount of seasonings such as monosodium glutamate (MSG) and salt, authentic meatballs have very few other additives. After freezing, there is no taste.

Pinch: Good meatballs are elastic and will quickly return to their original shape when squeezed. Poor quality balls, though elastic, will bounce slowly after being pinched.

Taste: The meatballs you buy will be cooked in clean water. The taste is good and the quality of pure meat is good. The counterfeit beef balls, because they add too much starch and additives, are very sticky and have a deep sense of concentration. The chicken tastes good. Reporter Wang Lei