Do you like to eat the "roast duck" sold for 25 yuan each on the street? Or do you dare to eat it?
In the hot summer, the braised food stalls in the streets and alleys are extremely busy. In addition to various braised food cold dishes, the most popular items at the braised food stalls are cheap roast duck. A roast duck only costs 25 yuan, and some are even as cheap as a dozen yuan each. Faced with such a cheap roast duck, friends who like to eat are both excited and scared. Will eating too much of this kind of roast duck be harmful to the body?
In daily life, if you go to the market to buy raw duck, the cheaper one is only forty or fifty yuan. The expensive local duck is even one or two hundred yuan. The roast duck prepared on the street only costs more than ten yuan. The price of raw duck is less than half, will these ducks become a big deal?
When everyone talks about this kind of cheap roast duck, they will immediately think of the word "fast-growing". Meat such as fast-growing duck, fast-growing chicken, and fast-growing pig has been a relatively active topic in recent years. The reason why "fast-growing" is so popular is that these animals grow so fast. Friends who have raised chickens and ducks in rural areas know that it usually takes at least 3-6 months to raise chickens and ducks until they are ready for slaughter. The growth of local chickens It takes up to a year to eat, but these fast-growing chickens and ducks only take about 40 days to be ready for slaughter. Can you imagine how terrible the food they eat is? Netizens think that this is definitely inseparable from growth hormone and antibiotic drug . Chickens and ducks eating these feeds are not only less likely to get sick, but also grow wildly, so they can be put out of the market in just a few dozen days.
This situation did exist in large-scale domestic breeding farms in the early days, but starting in 2020, my country has promulgated the "Regulations on the Management of Feed and Feed Additives", which clearly mentions that antibiotics are prohibited from being added to all breeding feeds. All feed must pass various checkpoints before leaving the factory and meet national standards before it can be put on the market. In order to improve the survival rate of seedlings, many farmers usually inject animal vaccines when they first hatch, so that they can grow healthily even if they use feed without antibiotics.
As for the speculation that the feed may contain growth hormone to make chickens and ducks grow faster, in fact, you can rest assured that businessmen will always settle accounts better than buyers. The cost of growth hormone is higher, so it is not cost-effective.
Fast-growing chickens and ducks do not grow up taking hormones, so why do they grow so fast?
The answer is that the varieties are different. The supply of broiler chickens in my country is mainly " white feather chicken ", which is a variety introduced from foreign countries. The advantage of white-feathered chickens is their fast growth rate. White-feathered chickens grow 3-4 times faster than local chickens on the same feed. As long as the chicken feeds are nutritious and the temperature is suitable, they may grow to 2-3 pounds in more than 40 days.
The same is true for ducks. In order to cope with the Chinese people's demand for meat, our country has continuously introduced and improved multiple meat duck varieties, such as: Cherry Valley duck , Tianfu meat duck, Haige meat duck, Nantes duck, etc. , as long as the growth environment of ducks is artificially controlled and the feed is improved, their growth rate will be much higher than that of ducks raised by farmers.
In other words, there is no problem with these fast-growing chickens and ducks as long as the feeding requirements are implemented in accordance with national standards. However, there are many unknown procedures that a roast duck goes through from the slaughterhouse to the finished product. Does anyone know if something went wrong in the middle?
Someone once estimated the cost of an ordinary roast duck on the street. Most of the raw materials are "little white striped duck". The weight of this kind of duck is 1.9 to 2.0 kilograms, and the eviscerated weight after slaughter is about 1.25 kilograms.
Counting from the beginning of breeding, the price of a duckling is about 3.2 yuan. After raising ducklings for 30 days, the cost of feed is about 7 yuan, the cost of epidemic prevention such as vaccines, antibodies, and disinfectants is about 0.2 yuan, and labor is 1 yuan. The approximate cost of a small striped duck is only 11.4 yuan.
Under normal circumstances, a raw duck will be sold separately, and the prices of different parts are different. However, the roast duck on the street only uses the main body of the duck, and other valuable duck intestines, duck gizzards, and duck feet are all broken down.And they basically use frozen duck. With some labor and baking costs, the cost of a finished roast duck is only 13-15 yuan. Under normal circumstances, a merchant selling one for 25 yuan is considered a huge profit.
Since almost all street roast ducks use frozen small white-striped ducks . The meat of these ducks is not fresh. Some unscrupulous traders often add some "unique secret recipes" in order to roast the ducks to make the ducks more colorful, fragrant and attractive. Publicly speaking, certain colorings are added, and a variety of flavors may be added to make the roast duck taste richer.
Therefore, in general, it is better to eat less roast duck, which is too cheap on the street and is far lower than the normal market price. Although there is no problem with the raw materials, the production standards of small workshops vary, making it difficult to control the yield of finished products and implement them in accordance with food safety regulations. Therefore, to be safe, try to eat as little as possible.
Reference:
[1] https://www.toutiao.com/article/6952655278152090143/?log_from=19e579cc840c2_1657931782580
[2] https://www.toutiao.com/article/71190800 13320028710/?log_from=13ecf6ab10851_1657931813059
