2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
In the ham, which is offered in our country, mashed potato starch and mashed potatoes. Thus, the volume of the delicacy increases, and the price per kilogram does not change, the Telegraph reports.
A woman from Sofia reported the daily to her, saying that she was very surprised when she read on the label of the ham she bought that it contained potato starch.
A report shows that most of the ham producers add potato starch or mashed potatoes to it in order to increase the volume of the product they offer.
Mashed potatoes and starch by themselves have no taste. They increase the volume without changing the taste, and the price per kilogram remains unchanged. The same is the case with the addition of pumpkin puree to the lyutenitsa. Pumpkin is cheaper than pepper. Potatoes are cheaper than meat - explain experts in the meat processing industry.
To blind the ingredients, manufacturers add other substances, such as collagen, which is used in the cosmetics industry - mainly in face creams to smooth wrinkles and lip augmentation.
The property of collagen is to stick together the individual ingredients and make the product more elastic. However, manufacturers do not limit themselves to those supplements, which at first glance are harmless and do not cause health problems when consumed.
The big problem for our customers is that they do not know how much meat they consume from the pieces of ham they pay for.
Although the labels indicate the presence of potato starch, mashed potatoes and collagen, nowhere is it stated what their ratio is to the pure local product.
A recent inspection in local stores found that beef salami is actually made mainly from chicken, and the beef used is only 20%.
It also turned out that the main ingredient in pork ham is chicken, and in many of the other sausages large amounts of lactose have been found, which is an allergen and can be dangerous if consumed too often.
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