Today the composition of sausage products is full of chemical elements: carrageenan, cochineal, phosphates, nitrites, nitrates. Yes, they all make sausages more tasty and attractive, but absolutely not useful.
In addition, this kind of products, due to the huge amount of preservatives, leads a person into a state of dependence. Human taste receptors get used to this taste, and already other food seems fresh and not so appetizing.
Many people, by the way, believe that sausages and sausages are safer than smoked sausages. However, it is not. Yes, there are not so many spices in these sausages, but a huge number of other dangerous components: fillers, flavors, thickeners, dyes, taste enhancers. But meat in sausages and sausages is today, unfortunately, extremely rare.
Previously, it was an honor for the manufacturer to ensure that its products met the requirements of GOST. In the Soviet times, when making sausages and sausages, it was required to use more than 50% of natural meat. Now, after the appearance of technical conditions (TU), which cost manufacturers much cheaper, the requirements to the quality of products have significantly decreased.
Harm sausages and wieners
Today, sausages are required to have 10-30% of meat. However, in fact it turns out that this is not meat pulp, but animal fat, skin, poultry. All the rest in the sausages and sausages are protein stabilizers and protein-fat emulsions.
In emulsions there is water, vegetable oil, soy protein, sodium caseinate. As it turns out in practice, the proteins of meat and milk are completely incompatible, but manufacturers do not think about it. Also in the sausages and sausages are flour, starch, various cereals.
And how can you then call these sausages products a meat product?
As it seems at first, soy is a harmless product. So it is so, but soy is able to absorb everything - fragrances, preservatives, dyes, etc. In addition, soy is genetically modified. But manufacturers benefit from its cheapness, and the consumer eventually pays a double price.
How does the composition of sausages and wieners affect the human body?
In children, the composition of this product often causes allergic reactions and indigestion. After getting used to sausages, children constantly require them to cook, and they can lead to the emergence of all sorts of chronic diseases.
Substances found in sausages and wursts can not be completely digested physiologically. The body does not understand what to do with them and spends its energy on digestion. At the same time these forces are vital for the growth, development and activity of children. Adults also draw to sausages after they try them.
However, sausages do not have nutritional value. But many parents do not stop this, and they begin to feed their children with this product almost from 1 year of life, justifying their actions by the fact that the child really likes and he at least something to eat.
Sausages should in no case be given to children at least up to 3 years. Also, sausages and sausages should not be eaten by pregnant women and women who are in lactation. In men, however, these sausages significantly reduce the activity of spermatozoa.
How to choose sausages and sausages correctly and which ones can be less harmful?
Most people will not be able to refuse even at times to eat this sausage product. Then they should learn how to choose a safe product.
When buying sausages or sausages to a child in no case should not take a bright pink or dark products. The saturated color of the products indicates the presence of a huge number of dyes, and too dark color is a sign of preservatives. More or less real sausages contain a homogeneous stuffing of grayish-pink color. In addition, look for a special badge on the package that allows this product to children. To obtain this badge, manufacturers undergo additional research.
Each consumer can independently conduct a test at home: give sausages to a cat and a dog. A more or less natural product will be eaten by an animal, but it will not touch "solid soy".
If the manufacturer says on the package that there are no soybeans in these sausages or sausages, then read the composition of the product carefully. Most likely there it is indicated that the sausage product contains fiber or dietary fiber. Of course, these supplements are not dangerous, but why should you pay for sausages or sausages as much as if they were made from meat?
In addition, on the packaging of these sausages they write that they allegedly used a natural shell for their manufacture. However, please note that if heat treatment of sausages or wursts, the shell breaks, then it is not natural, but artificial. If, having fried the sausage in a frying pan or having cooked it in a microwave oven, it wrinkled or swelled, it means that in this sausage product the content of carrageenan is exceeded. This food supplement can lead to severe allergies.
Too salty sausages are not recommended, because they can contain a huge amount of sodium nitrite. Of protein supplements, very soft sausages are obtained. Such sausages can be checked by squeezing the product in your hand.
To find out how much dye is contained in sausages or sausages, cook this product in salt water. The experiment shows that if the water turns pink, then such sausage products are not worth it.
The starch content in the product can be determined using an uncomplicated method: drip some iodine on the edge of a piece of sausage or sausage. If the droplet turns blue, then this sausage product contains a lot of starch, but there is practically no meat.
Remember that the high cost of the product does not mean that the product is made from a natural cape. If you are poisoned by any kind of sausage, then do not be silent, and bring the matter to court. You will be entitled to compensation for moral damage, and also return the money you paid for the goods.
Write an application to the Rospotrebnadzor of your city, attaching to it the product itself and a check for it. If, as a result of the examination, it turns out that this sausage product is spoiled, then you will definitely be paid money.