When I opened the lid, a smell of meat floated out. I tasted it. It was delicious. Although I like meat very much, I can't bear to eat it all. I eat a small piece every day and think it is the most delicious food in the world. Now that living conditions are good, I still often buy a can of lunch meat for breakfast and stir-fry rice, which is particularly fragrant.
Many people like to eat lunch meat, especially children at school. When there is no money at the end of the month, it is lunch meat and instant noodles, which can be eaten for half a month.
Lunch meat is delicious and convenient to eat, so the demand is increasing gradually and more and more manufacturers are coming. The quality is uneven. When I was a child, it was very meaty. Now eat a starch-flavored one, which is particularly crisp.
We buy lunch meat just to eat meat. Is it made of pork? Many people don't understand, so let me tell you the secret of lunch meat. Lunch meat is a kind of canned compressed minced meat, and its history can be traced back to 1937. The American company Hormel produced the world's first can of luncheon meat.
Lunch meat is easy to preserve and convenient to eat. It is usually eaten at picnics and is also a necessary military supplies for the army.
For American soldiers in World War II, lunch meat is an unlucky can that can never be eaten. It's hard to taste "meat" if you eat it three times a day. But the earliest lunch meat was really made of meat, made of pork with starch and spices.
Now that the conditions are good, the technology of making lunch meat has also improved. Besides pork, there are beef, chicken and duck. Chicken and duck are the cheapest, and beef is the most expensive. In fact, as long as it is made of meat, it is delicious and nutritious. However, in addition to meat, lunch meat also has starch and other raw materials, and the proportion is too high, so lunch meat tastes like starch.
Therefore, if you want to buy delicious lunch meat, you must know how to choose. I will share it with you below.
At present, there is no special national standard for canned lunch meat in China, and the standards of each manufacturer are different, so the quality can only be judged by the information on the packaging.
1 and grade
Like ham sausage, lunch meat is graded, with super grade being the best, excellent grade being the second, and ordinary grade being the third.
High grade, more meat and less starch, high protein ratio, good elasticity and good taste; Low grade, less meat and more starch, low protein ratio, poor elasticity and poor taste. However, high-end lunch meat is more expensive.
Step 2: seasoning
No matter what you buy, you have to look at the ingredients list. Buy lunch meat, regardless of brand and price, look at the ingredients first. The higher the ranking, the higher the content. For example, canned pork, the first ingredient list should be pork, followed by starch, salt, additives and so on. The less additives, the better.
3. Pigment
If you find food coloring, don't buy it. Lunch meat processed with fresh meat does not need to be added with food coloring.
If the pigment is used, it means that the color of raw materials is abnormal, then it may be that stale and deteriorated meat is used, which is not good for our health. Don't buy it.
Lunch meat is similar to ham. The main raw materials are pork, beef and chicken, and the price is beef > pork > chicken. When you buy it, you should choose the kind with more meat and less starch, that is, the super and excellent grades. It's best not to buy ordinary grades. It's not delicious or nutritious. It's a complete waste of money.
That soft-wrapped square ham is not lunch meat! Lunch meat is canned, which is also a big difference.