Are ham and lunch meat nutritious?

Ruan Guangfeng, Director of the Science and Technology Department of the Food and Nutrition Information Exchange Center

A kind of nostalgic food - fried sausages from a small vendor who set up a stall in front of the school when he was a child, has recently become an "Internet celebrity"

Meat is the main raw material of ham

According to China's national standard, ham sausage is a meat enema product made of fresh or frozen livestock, poultry, and fish as the main raw material, which is marinated, stirred, chopped (or emulsified), poured into plastic casing, and sterilized at high temperature.

It can be clearly seen from the standard requirements that ham and luncheon meat are meat products, and the main raw material is still meat

National standard strictly limits nitrite

In addition to starch, when it comes to luncheon meat and ham sausage, many people will feel that "there are too many preservatives and no nutrition"

Taking into account the taste, cost and other factors, ham sausage will be appropriately added with food additives in the production

Therefore, as long as it is a qualified product of a regular manufacturer, there is no need to worry about its safety

"There is no junk food, only junk eating"

From a nutritional point of view, food itself is not divided into "junk" and "healthy", and the nutrition community still emphasizes that "there is no junk food, only junk eating"

The value of food is to meet the nutritional needs of the human body

Ham and lunch meat are easy to store and easy to eat because of their processing and packaging

In general, although ham and luncheon meat are not junk food and can be part of a reasonable diet, they should not be eaten uncontrollably

"China Food News" (September 16, 2021, 06 edition)

(Editor-in-charge: Qu Yuening)