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"This kind of instant noodles tastes bitter."
Recently, a Henan audience wrote to CCTV that the Konka brand "Konka 130" spicy beef noodles he bought tasted strange and the seasoning inside was still bitter. The audience also sent this strange instant noodle to CCTV reporters. According to the contact information on the package, the reporter immediately dialed the phone number of the manufacturer.
Reporter: Isn't the seasoning in your instant noodles produced by your own factory?
Director: It is produced by a factory in wen county, Jiaozuo.
Reporter: Which factory in Wenxian made it?
Director: I don't know about this.
Reporter: What do you think of the quality of their seasoning?
Director: Not bad.
Tea
Our seasoning is "real"
In Wenxian County, local people told reporters that instant noodle seasoning is a pillar industry in Wude Town, Wenxian County, with a history of more than ten years. Some well-known local manufacturers in Henan are also using instant noodle seasoning processed in wen county. However, the taxi driver in the county euphemistically told us that the quality of local instant noodle seasoning was "not very good", and he suggested that we go to the factory to have a look on the spot.
After many twists and turns, the reporter found the manufacturer of "Konka 130" instant noodle seasoning-Wenxian Special Food Seasoning Factory in Wude Town, Wenxian County. Wang Qungeng, director of wen county Special Food Seasoning Factory, took out a box of Pingyuan brand spicy beef noodles and told us that Pingyuan Food Factory was his long-term customer. This kind of instant noodles uses the sauce bag produced in his factory. It is also said that the beef and vegetables they produce for instant noodle seasoning are all real materials, without adding any preservatives and pigments, and the quality is excellent.
A private/secret/secret investigation
Packaging is "the opposite"
However, the factory that the reporter made an unannounced visit was quite different from what the director of the condiment factory said: the shovel for frying materials and the broom for sweeping the floor were put together, the walls of the packaging workshop were covered with mildew spots, and vegetable raw materials such as potatoes and onions were simply rinsed in dark water. Even if washed, black mud remained on the washed ginger slices. In addition, onions and garlic have rotted. Workers don't care about this.
Not only is there a problem with the raw materials, but the production process of the seasoning also makes the reporter "an eye-opener". While the workers are frying, the factory director and technicians "add ingredients". The factory director said that the first ingredient is potassium sorbate for anticorrosion, and it can't be added in twos per ton, because "too much is bitter". In addition, the technician also asked the workers to add a yellow powder to the pot, which the technician said was called "sunset yellow" for coloring.
The sauce in the pot has been boiled for nearly half an hour. The workers poured the prepared salt, monosodium glutamate and crushed dry seasoning into the pot. After stirring evenly, the technician poured another red viscous liquid into the pot. The factory director said that with this thick Chili red pigment, it looks like attractive red oil. The sauce was finally cooked, and the workers scooped it out and transported it to another workshop for cooling, and then transported it to the packaging machine in barrels to start packaging. Until the sauce in the pot is out of the pot and on the packaging line. The reporter also didn't see the main raw material of the sauce package marked on this instant noodle-beef.
Wang Qungeng explained that beef essence is added to the seasoning, and you don't know if there is beef flavor without beef. When the reporter asked why the outer packaging of the finished sauce package was marked with "beef, no preservatives or artificial colors were added", Wang Qungeng said openly that "everything is the opposite".
Wang Qungeng told reporters that in wen county, Henan Province, he was not the only one who used essence instead of beef as a seasoning for adulterated instant noodles, and other manufacturers did the same. According to the reporter's understanding, because replacing beef with beef with beef essence can greatly reduce the production cost, some instant noodle manufacturers purchase goods from these seasoning factories, because the cost of seasoning packages produced by instant noodle manufacturers is higher than that produced by these seasoning factories.
Expert:
This seasoning will cause cancer if eaten.
Shen Qun, an associate professor at the College of Food Science of China Agricultural University, said that processing inedible things as raw materials will inevitably have a great impact on the human body. Rotten fruits and vegetables contain a lot of nitrite. If eaten many times, these toxins will accumulate in the body, leading to variation and cancer.
When the reporter asked whether the country has clear regulations on seasoning packages, experts said that there is no clear regulation on seasoning packages at present, and these unqualified seasonings should be caught in the car of qualified instant noodles. This problem should attract the attention of relevant departments, and naturally this kind of three-no products cannot enter the market. For instant noodle factory, the instant noodles produced are qualified. If the seasoning package is unqualified, it will inevitably lead to a crisis of confidence in the instant noodles themselves.
According to the weekly quality report of CCTV,
Core tips
As we all know, instant noodles will be served with seasoning packets. Some instant noodle manufacturers do not produce seasonings themselves, but buy seasonings from other seasoning factories. We can imagine that the seasoning of instant noodles is nothing more than salt, monosodium glutamate and bean paste, but some seasoning factories have done enough articles in this small seasoning package.
A Henan audience wrote that the Pingyuan Konka brand Konka 130 spicy beef noodles he bought tasted strange, and the seasoning inside was still bitter. He also gave us this delicious instant noodle.
■ telephone play
This spicy beef noodle named Konka 130 is labeled as Konka Food Factory in huixian city Plain, Henan Province. According to the contact information on the package, the reporter immediately dialed the phone number of the manufacturer.
Reporter: Excuse me, are you huixian city Pingyuan Konka Food Factory?
Director: Yes. Reporter: What's the name of your noodles? Manufacturer: Konka 130 (instant noodles).
Reporter: Some viewers reported that the seasoning in your noodles seems to have a bitter taste.
Director: It tastes bitter, so I don't know.
Reporter: Isn't your seasoning produced by your own factory?
Director: Yes. Reporter: Where is it made? Director: Jiaozuo wen county. Reporter: wen county, which factory in wen county made it? Director: I don't know about this. Reporter: What do you think of their seasoning? Director: Not bad.
■ At the scene
Seasoning workshop
Located in the farmhouse courtyard
According to the director, this kind of instant noodle seasoning with strange smell reflected by consumers has never been found before, so what is the quality of this seasoning? We decided to conduct an investigation in Wenxian County.
In Wenxian County, the local people told us that instant noodle seasoning is the pillar industry of Wude Town in Wenxian County, which has a history of more than ten years. The instant noodles produced by some well-known local manufacturers in Henan are also flavored with instant noodles processed in wen county. However, the taxi driver in the county euphemistically told us that the quality of local instant noodle seasoning was "not very good", and he suggested that we go to the factory to have a look on the spot.
After many twists and turns, the reporter found the seasoning factory of Konka 130 instant noodles-Wenxian Special Food Seasoning Factory in Wude Town, Wenxian County. The factory director took out a box of Pingyuan Konka spicy beef noodles and told us that Pingyuan Konka Food Factory was his long-term customer. This kind of instant noodles uses the sauce bag produced in his factory.
The workshop of the factory is located in this farm yard, and the workers are busy preparing for the day's production. Workers told reporters that their instant noodle seasoning is not only made of real beef and vegetables, but also contains no preservatives and pigments, and is of high quality.
■ Witness
The raw materials have gone moldy.
Fried for camouflage
However, in the processing workshop, the shovel for frying and the broom for sweeping the floor are put together, and the walls of the packaging workshop are covered with mildew spots. A worker is washing vegetables. Potatoes, onions and other vegetables are simply rinsed with dark water. There is black mud on the washed ginger slices. The reporter found that many of the fresh vegetable raw materials mentioned by these workers have rotted and deteriorated. Workers don't care about this.
Then, the workers crushed dry spices such as pepper, pepper, aniseed and ginger. The peppers in the warehouse are black and moldy, and a thick layer of green mold has grown on the ginger slices.
Workers told us that no matter whether it is rotten vegetables or moldy dry seasonings, you can't see them at all as long as you fry them in oil. Subsequently, the factory director and technicians rolled out a bucket of oil from the corner and raised a fire to heat it.
The frying began, and the dry seasoning was poured into the oil pan. The workers poured garlic, mashed potatoes and onions into it in turn. The onion paste that fell on the stove beside the pot was scraped off by the technician and thrown into the pot. After a while, another worker scraped all the onion paste scattered on the stove into the pot.
The shovel used by workers for cooking is the shovel put together by the broom that just swept the floor.
■ Experts say that raw materials are toxic and carcinogenic.
Processing these inedible things into food and raw materials will inevitably have a great impact on the human body. For example, moldy ginger and moldy (douban) sauce contain a lot of aflatoxin and mycotoxin, and rotten fruits and vegetables contain a lot of nitrite, which has great influence on human body. This effect may not be obvious, unlike when we drink methanol, it can lead to obvious physical reactions once. However, if you eat too much, these toxins will accumulate in the body and cause cancer.
In the expired bean paste
Add artificial pigment
Extension 1
While frying, on the other hand, the factory director took out various seasonings from the ingredient room in turn and began to ingredient.
Director: (This is) potassium sorbate.
Reporter: What is this for?
Director: It's a preservative.
Reporter: How much preservative should be added to one ton?
Director: Now a ton plus 220 is much more bitter?
Then, the worker took out several barrels of bean paste and poured it into the pot. But as soon as the lid was opened, a strange smell came to our face, and the technicians quickly explained it to us.
Technician: Douban has not expired yet, and the people in the bucket still need to (recycle).
The reporter noticed that the label on the barrel was impressively printed with the production date of 65438+200310.8 and the shelf life of 12 months. Obviously, these bean paste have expired for more than a month.
Because the expired bean paste could not reach the desired color when added to the pot, the technician put forward a bucket of red solution and poured it into the pot, and the color in the pot immediately brightened.
Reporter: What is this added? Food is red. Colored?
Technician: Yes.
The garlic paste and Jiang Mo in the pot have already been fried, and the workers next to them began to weigh some yellow powder.
Reporter: What is this called? Technician: The sun sets yellow. Reporter: What is it for? Technician: colored.
Reporter: (One pot) How much sunset yellow should I add to 500 Jin?
Technician: Add half a catty.
The reporter saw that on the outer packaging of the finished seasoning sauce package, it was clearly marked: preservatives and artificial colors will never be added.
Reporter: But the instant noodle seasoning says there are no artificial colors or preservatives?
Director: Everything. It says the opposite.
Reporter: Isn't that cheating?
Director: Of course, that's cheating.
Insider 2
Pour the red liquid into the pot.
Essence posing as beef
The sauce in the pot has been boiled for nearly half an hour. The workers poured the prepared salt, monosodium glutamate and crushed dry seasoning into the pot. After stirring evenly, the technician poured another red viscous liquid into the pot.
He said that adding this sticky paprika red pigment looks like attractive red oil. The sauce was finally cooked, and the workers scooped it out and transported it to another workshop for cooling, and then transported it to the packaging machine in barrels to start packaging. Until the sauce in the pot is out of the pot and on the packaging line. The reporter also didn't see the main raw material of the sauce package marked on this instant noodle-beef.
Reporter: It is generally said that there is beef.
Technician: You don't know if it smells like beef.
Reporter: all the essence? Technician: Yes.
Reporter: Can't others eat it?
Technician: It tastes like beef.
The director of wen county Special Food Seasoning Factory told the reporter that in wen county, Henan Province, he was not the only one who used essence instead of beef to make adulterated instant noodles seasoning, and other manufacturers also had it. Under his guidance, the reporter came to wen county Xinghua Food Seasoning Co., Ltd. ... The production in the workshop was drawing to a close, and the workers were cleaning the steamer and scraping off the residual paste in the steamer.
Reporter: Do you want more sauce after washing the pot?
Worker: Yes. Reporter: Yes, how to use it?
Worker: break it with a machine and mix it in.
Reporter: Is there beef in it?
Worker: Not here.
Coming out of Xinghua factory, the reporter came to Wenxian Zhenhua seasoning food factory not far away. Although it is late, the factory is still working overtime.
On the production line, the workers took out a bucket of brown liquid, poured it out and weighed it, and added it to the pot.
Technician: That's the essence of beef. It's delicious.
Reporter: How many Jin of beef is enough for one ton after adding this spice?
Technician: One ton plus ten Jin.
He said that replacing beef with beef essence can greatly reduce the production cost, so a famous instant noodle factory in Henan also bought from him.
Above: Powder dry seasoning is poured into the oil pan.
Above: Potassium sorbate used for corrosion protection has also been put into the seasoning bag.
Above: The expired bean paste can't reach the desired color when added to the pot. The technician puts forward a bucket of red solution and pours it into the pot, and the color in the pot immediately brightens.
Isn't it shocking? Don't eat any more.