Attention — danger! Here's what you need to know to all lovers of crab sticks...

The extraordinary popularity before the new year takes on a special product — crab sticks. Despite the fact that we since the childhood told about their extraordinary harm, we allow ourselves to occasionally enjoy the unusual taste of this semi-finished product.

Unfortunately, many manufacturers sin that is added to the composition of crab sticks a variety of flavor enhancers, stabilizers, thickeners and flavoring agents. The worst thing is that some of them manage to replace the main component of crab sticks — surimi (minced fish).





It is important to come properly to the choice of crab sticks. It is worth to give this process some time to stay on a quality product that will not bring harm to health.

How to choose crab sticks

1. Composition
   This is the main thing that you need to pay attention at a choice of crab sticks. If the list of components in the first place is surimi, the product is quite good quality. If surimi is in second place, and therefore, the number of fish in the sticks is minimal. Sometimes the composition of crab sticks do not fish, and there are starch, soy protein and a variety of substitutes. In this case it is necessary to abandon the purchase of such products.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Appearance
   Of great importance is the appearance of crab sticks: the product should be painted on one side only. The color of the sticks should range from light pink to rose-red. Bright red color of the semi-finished product testifies to an excessive amount of dye in the product. Also crab sticks should be smooth and elastic. Do not buy a product which breaks and crumbles.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Packaging
   That crab sticks visited a few times in the freezer, can be found on the packaging. Often it is a small amount of ice or snow. Crab sticks, put up in hermetically sealed packaging should be the same size and shape. If you select the paste better to give preference to products of famous manufacturers, because fish trifled with.
   
   
   
4. Look at what's inside
   Surimi is a very elastic mass, which is amenable to deformation. Try to bend a crab stick. If it is only slightly cracked at the bending place, so the product quality. If the break — in prefabricated too much starch. Also you should try to deploy a crab stick. If you can pull that kind of manipulation, so in a lot of surimi product. If the unfolding of the wand turns into a sticky mass, it is also a sign that a product is a lot of starch. You should give preference to those crab sticks, in which a small amount of potato starch.
   
   
   
   
   

What are crab sticks you buy? Don't forget to share your opinion with us in the comments!

The author

Victoria Poplavskaya Believes that art knows no rest! Enjoys drawing, used to look at life with a painter's eye. Cleaning the house and cooking finds work, a pleasure after all to any business can be creative! Loves unorthodox methods of solving problems. Favorite book Victoria — "Three comrades" E. M. Remarque.