Food scraps are popular, and you still need to pay more attention to your purchase

Recently, food scraps have entered the vision of young people and become their "money-saving treasures"

However, some experts remind that some food scraps may be three-no-products, and there are potential safety hazards

The market size will rise steadily

Food scraps generally refer to the fragmentary materials cut and cut down when making food, which are not used by formal products due to irregular shapes and other reasons, but their processing technology and quality are consistent

"Buying 1 kilogram of formal pork belly costs about 50 yuan, while scraps are only about 15 yuan; A pack of 40 grams of seaweed costs about 25 yuan, but it only costs about

When the reporter browsed the e-commerce platform, he found that the price of a brand of toast bread was about 25 yuan and 500 grams, while the price of 500 grams of bread was about 5.

"Beef in a yakiniku restaurant needs to be of the same quality when it comes to the table, and inevitably some minced meat will be cut, which I sometimes buy, as well as various sashimi cuts from the Japanese food store, but it is not good, it is also delicious

According to the "White Paper on New Consumption Potential in the First Quarter of 2022", in the first quarter, the sales of snack scrap-related products on Taobao Tmall were 20.

Some merchants promote under the guise of promotion

However, some merchants use the guise of food scraps to "sneak" on consumers' wallets

The reporter found that on an e-commerce platform, a pack of 500 grams of tiger skin cake side price is about 22.

Some insiders pointed out that the seemingly cost-effective price difference sometimes makes consumers ignore informal packaging, non-standard quality and the source of

It is understood that at present, although there are food scraps produced and sold by regular food production enterprises on the market, there are fewer types, and some are packaged but do not have food scraps with food certificates; Some sell a large number of wholesale, large packages of food or snacks under the guise of scraps

The industry needs to be regulated

In the pork breast scrap product review area on an e-commerce platform, some consumers said that the taste is OK, that is, after eating diarrhea; In the product comment area of a bread side, some consumers reflected that the shelf life was too short, and when the goods were received, they were about to expire, and they could not eat at all in one or two days, and "the scraps became waste.

Food industry analyst Zhu Danpeng said that at present, China does not have corresponding product standards or enterprise management system specifications for food scraps themselves, and many food scraps are in a gray area

Some insiders suggest that you can buy from offline, try not to shop from online, otherwise it will become a "blind box"; Try to buy from genuine stores; Some genuine foods have the name, production date or production batch number, shelf life and other contents on the outer packaging, which are indispensable as scraps of bulk food; Some food scraps, such as preserved meat, may be reprocessed from different batches of minced meat, and it is difficult for consumers to trace their processing process, and they need to be cautious

Some experts said that the acceptance of food scraps by the market has the practical significance of reducing the pressure of a person's life, and it is also a specific practice to reduce the waste of catering, which to a certain extent spreads the social trend