Is the brand of Pepper Master Spicy Sticks reliable?

Spicy noodles are also called big gluten, vegetarian beef tendon, etc. It is a food made of wheat flour or other grains and beans as the main raw material. Chorizo is a snack food. Spicy noodles contain a large number of food additives (more than ten or twenty kinds). There is no uniform production standards, the market is generally in accordance with the implementation of the production of spicy bar manufacturers, the implementation of the standard is generally DB41/T515-2007 and GB2760.

Hunan Agricultural University, the former dean of the College of Food Science and Technology, Xia Yanbin, said the spicy bar is a flour with water, salt, sugar extrusion cooked out, and then seasoned into the product is agricultural products processed snacks. About additives, as long as the national standard to add will not have an impact on personal health, so we can not say that spicy noodles is junk food.

In recent years, under the catalyst of network culture, spicy noodles are regarded as the symbol of "childhood flavor", and have become the number one "net red" in leisure snacks with an annual output value of 50 billion yuan.

On March 15, 2019, the 2019 CCTV 3-15 evening party exposed the dangerous spicy strips, the production conditions are extremely unhygienic, without any sanitary protection measures. The staff admitted that the shrimp and egg spicy noodles ingredients in addition to flour is a variety of additives.

December 10, 2019, the State Administration for Market Supervision and Administration issued a notice "on strengthening the quality and safety supervision of seasoned noodle products", from the unified "spicy noodles" food classification, strengthen the raw materials and production process control, advocate salt reduction, reduce oil and sugar and other six aspects. The six aspects of strengthening the quality and safety supervision of flavored pasta products are requirements.

Spicy noodles, originating in Hunan Pingjiang, the industry called gluten, Pingjiang people called spicy, because spicy noodles is spicy flavor at the beginning, spicy to authentic. Spicy strips are flour-based raw materials, through extrusion cooked, flavored and made of non-fried, spicy flavor of leisure snacks.

Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, has a very long history of dried sauce, dried spicy sauce, spicy bean curd production, is an important part of the Pingjiang industry.

In 1998, a huge flood disaster occurred in Hunan Province, resulting in serious losses of agricultural products, the main raw material of the dried sauce industry in Pingjiang County, soybeans, a substantial decline in production capacity, a direct devastating blow to the dried sauce industry. In order to feed their families, Pingjiang County farmers in urgent need of a new way out, in this case, Pingjiang County, three towns rich in the spirit of innovation Pingjiang Qiu Pingjiang, Li Mangneng, Zhong Qingyuan in the exploration of flour instead of soybean meal, improve the production process, the use of a single-screw extrusion machining, adding chili, pepper, cumin, sugar, salt, vegetable oil and other condiments, innovation and invention of spicy spicy flavored spicy noodles, the industry is called gluten, the people of Pingjiang called spicy.

Industry status

In 2017, according to Zhengzhou City, Pingjiang Chamber of Commerce, Henan seasoned noodle products enterprises from more than 4,000 in 2000 to more than 1,000 at the end of 2009, and in 2017, the province has only 236 left, but the annual output value rose from more than 8 billion yuan in 2009 to 22.5 billion yuan in 2017.

From 2015 to 2017, 195 batches of products from 131 chorizo producers in 15 provinces*** across the country were blacklisted by the food and drug administration. Only 49 of these problematic companies have registered trademarks. And among the unqualified products, the three sweeteners, acesulfame, sodium saccharin and sweetener, appeared 64 times, accounting for 32.82%. According to national regulations on food additives, saccharin sodium cannot be used to flavor pasta products.

On Aug. 21, 2017, the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Health and Family Planning Supervision and Law Enforcement said the newly revised local standard for food safety, Seasoned Noodle Products, which standardizes the production of chorizo, will be formally implemented from Sept. 1 onward.

National standard introduced

On December 10, 2019, the State Administration for Market Supervision and Administration issued a bulletin "on strengthening the quality and safety supervision of seasoned noodle products", from the unification of the classification of "spicy noodles" type of food, to strengthen the control of raw materials and production process, to advocate salt reduction. From the unification of "spicy noodles" food classification, strengthen the raw materials and auxiliary materials and production process control, advocate the reduction of salt, oil and sugar, and other six aspects of the strengthening of the quality and safety supervision of seasoned pasta products put forward requirements.

The release of the announcement made it clear that, in the future, spicy noodles unified in accordance with the "convenience foods, flavored noodle products" production license category management, the production of enterprises in accordance with the "National Standard for Food Safety Standards for the Use of Food Additives" (GB 2760) of the relevant provisions of the use of food additives, shall not exceed the scope, exceed the limit of the use of food additives, but also requires the use of food additives. The use of food additives, but also requires the production of spicy noodles to improve the product formula, reduce salt and oil and sugar.

According to the GB 2760-2014 Standard for the Use of Food Additives, spicy noodles manufacturers will not be allowed to use sorbic acid and its potassium salt (sorbic acid) and dehydroacetic acid and its sodium salt (dehydroacetic acid), and the amount of sweeteners used will also be strictly limited. This also means that not only spicy noodles may be "tasteless", the North and South standards are not uniform to bring the dilemma of supervision of different places is also expected to be cracked.

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