Before, I thoughtlessly bought semi-finished meat products in stores at a big discount. I really like all kinds of dumplings, sausages and sausages. It is simply impossible to pass by your favorite food. And when there is still a red price tag on it, then the hands themselves reach for the counter. Shop manipulation works great. As soon as the buyer sees huge discounts, he thoughtlessly buys the product.
Before, I didn't even look at the composition of semi-finished products. I didn't really want to deal with all sorts of unfamiliar additives. But once I decided to show interest in this issue and talk to a friend from the meat processing plant.
Better not to know!
My friend has been working at a meat processing plant for several years and knows what semi-finished products are made of. I asked her to tell in detail about the ingredients that are included in my favorite products. The acquaintance just grinned and said that sausage lovers shouldn't know how they cook it. But, sadly, there is a grain of truth in this joke.
Don't buy sausage?
I asked a friend if it was possible to buy locally produced sausage. She said that all meat products are prepared only from high-quality raw materials (if it's an honest manufacturer). Even the plant employees themselves often take semi-finished products to their homes. A friend also loves to pamper herself with dumplings and aromatic sausages. But at the same time, she said that their enterprise was squeamish for mechanically deboned meat.
Her colleagues do not want to purchase products with such a component and bypass it, and there are reasons for this.
What is mechanically deboned meat?
I have repeatedly seen this component in the composition of semi-finished products. But its name did not arouse any suspicion. I thought that this was the most ordinary meat, which was mechanically rolled in some way. Only everything turned out to be not so simple ...
A friend said that this is a kind of waste that remained after processing the meat itself. All kinds of bones, veins, horns and hooves are added to semi-finished products))). Meat is also part of such a product. Only now they put it there in a very small amount.
It is worth looking closely at the composition to determine the percentage of waste content. If mechanically deboned meat was put in the first place in it, then it will be the main component of the product.
All other ingredients are just additives. Such semi-finished products are always much cheaper than conventional ones. A customer who does not look at the label can easily be deceived by the quality of the purchased products.