Genuine imitation crab meat. Woohoo!
At least Genuine imitation crab meat is real seafood.
I actually like imitation crab, “K Crab”. Substitute for tuna in salad, it’s actually not bad. Shrimp from seaweed and beans though, I don’t think so.
Genuine imitation crab meat. Woohoo!
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Is actually made from wild-caught Hake. However, there is a good bit of processing before it becomes fake crab.
Back in the day there was a huge completion to find a use for hake since the fisheries departments were enacting draconian regulations on commercial bottom draggers because so much of their catch was hake - for which there was no market and was dumped over the side.
So after many many tries someone found the correct formula to turn the hake flesh from a mushy pulp into something firm which could then be processed into something else and made edible, which the Japanese named surimi. The red color is just red food dye. It is better for you than farmed salmon or farmed shrimp