Posted on 01/18/2022 9:40:00 AM PST by mylife
Don't expect to find any lobster in your lobster balls. The hotpot favourite does not necessarily contain any ingredients from lobsters, Hong Kong's consumer watchdog has found, while 75 per cent of meatballs sampled had high levels of sodium and most contained other types of meat.
DNA tests by the Consumer Council found none of the 10 samples of lobster balls it collected contained any traces of the crustacean.
Professor Nora Tam Fung-yee, chairwoman of the council's research and testing committee, on Monday (Jan 17) said it was hard to tell what exactly "lobster balls" contained.
"We found some other ingredients … that might be other seafood or even meat-type ingredients … but our tests focused on [finding] lobster-related DNA, so we only know that lobster balls do not contain crustacean DNA," she said.
The council added one product from frozen seafood importer iEat had incorrectly listed "lobster" in its ingredients.
The importer issued an apology to any affected consumers and law enforcement agencies, explaining the error was the result of internal operations.
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“had high levels of sodium”
Well, yeah, it’s Chinese food. Tell us something we don’t know.
“What’s in a lobster ball?”
Cat?
Dog?
Rat?
all three?
My wife is allergic to lobster and shellfish, so stuff like this and the fish crab Rangoon are actually preferable.
The council tested several types of non- and pre-packaged meatballs for substances such as heavy metals, preservatives, fats and sodium.
It found that fishballs had the highest sodium content at 814mg, while lobster, beef and cuttlefish products ranged from 654mg to 794mg.
The Centre for Food Safety defines over 600mg of sodium per 100 grams as high-sodium foods.
According to Tam, a bowl of rice noodles served with five fishballs had a sodium intake of 819mg from just the latter alone, about 41 per cent of the 2,000mg daily limit recommended by the World Health Organisation.
Why even turn real lobsters into balls? Well, spheres have some advantages over lobster-shaped objects. They have rotational symmetry, you can throw or juggle them easier, and they don’t have cold dead eyes staring at you as you eat them.
Looks good to me ;)
“Other types of meat” in a Chinese dish? Uyghurs need to account for all relatives
Queue the “Cats in the Griddle” by Weird Al Yankovic.
No. Uyghur.
It ain’t just the Chinese that are messing with us..
More often than not, people who think they are eating calamari are really enjoy Pig anus, chopped and sauteed to perfection..
A bunch of lobsters at a formal dance?
soylent green?
“but our tests focused on [finding] lobster-related DNA, so we only know that lobster balls do not contain crustacean DNA
Might have been the lobsters near Chernobyl. Probably erased their DNA so it couldn’t be read.
wy69
Tastes like chicken?
Them be hard boiled eggs with green stuff floating beside them. Solved.
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