Spicy strips, also known as big gluten, plain beef tendon and so on. , is a kind of food made of wheat flour or other grains and beans as the main raw materials. Spicy strips are a snack. Spicy strips contain a large number of food additives (more than a dozen, 20 kinds). There is no uniform production standard, and the manufacturers of spicy strips in the market generally produce according to landmarks, and the implementation standards are generally DB4 1/T5 15-2007 and GB2760. Xia, former dean of the College of Food Science and Technology of Hunan Agricultural University, said that spicy strips are products made by adding water, salt and sugar to flour and then seasoning. They are snacks processed by agricultural products. As far as additives are concerned, as long as they are added according to national standards, they will not affect personal health, so it cannot be said that spicy strips are junk food.
Origin of spicy strips: Spicy strips originated in Pingjiang, Hunan Province, and are called gluten in the industry. Pingjiang people are called spicy, because spicy strips are spicy from the beginning, and spicy is authentic. Spicy strips are non-fried and spicy snacks made of flour after extrusion and seasoning. Pingjiang county, Hunan province has a very long history of making dry sauce, hot sauce and spicy bean bran, which is an important part of Pingjiang industry. During the period of 1998, a serious flood disaster occurred in Hunan, causing serious losses of agricultural products. The production capacity of soybean, the main raw material of dry sauce industry in Pingjiang county, has dropped sharply, which has directly caused a devastating blow to the dry sauce industry. In order to support their families, farmers in Pingjiang county urgently need a new way out. Under such circumstances, Qiu Pingjiang, Li Mengneng and Zhong Qingyuan, innovative Pingjiang people in Pingjiang County, used flour instead of soybean flour in their exploration, improved their production technology, used single-screw extrusion machinery, and added spices such as pepper, pepper, cumin, sugar, salt and vegetable oil to innovate and invent spicy strips. Known in the industry as gluten and flat.