Crab sticks are, perhaps, the most famous seafood. This product, imitating the meat of crabs, has an attractive and appetizing appearance, an acceptable price and a wide range. And what is the diversity of this product! Shop counters are simply covered with a huge number of brands from different manufacturers.
Unfortunately, not many manufacturers produce crab sticks from natural ingredients. Most of them use in production various flavor enhancers, flavors and thickeners. That is why we must very carefully approach the choice of crab sticks. How to choose a quality product that does not do any harm to your health?
We study the composition of the product
The most important thing that you should pay attention to is the ingredients of the rods. Immediately I must say: do not try to find crab sticks in crab sticks. They are made from white, lean fish of various species, most often used pollock, horse mackerel, hake. Prefabricated meat is called "surimi", and it should be the basis of quality crab sticks.
If the word "surimi" is in the first place, do not doubt, the product is made of natural ingredients and is suitable for use. If you find this word in second place, then the number of fish in such sticks is much less, which means it is necessary to think about the quality of this product. Do not buy the goods if there are no fish in it, and there are only substitutes. Well, from food additives can not get away. But it is important that they are in small quantities and mostly natural.
Take a closer look at the appearance and packaging of the product. Crab sticks must be painted only on one side, color from light pink to pink-red, but in no case scarlet. The product should not have extraneous shades.
How do you know if the wand is not damaged?
Wands should be neat, even and elastic. If they break and crumble in the package, it means that they were repeatedly subjected to defrosting. In no case do not buy such goods.
Remember the packaging in the hands, if the bent stick broke in half, so there is a lot of starch in the sticks. Try to deploy the wand, if it turned around, then there is enough fish minced in the product and you can safely purchase such a product.
It is necessary to buy crab sticks made using potato starch. Find out if frozen chopsticks are in front of you or not, you can by the presence of ice and snow on the package.
Crab sticks in the package should be monotonous in size and shape. It is best to purchase products of famous brands that have long and well proven themselves.