Crab stick - whether they are harmful?

Many residents of our country have long been fond of appeared initially in Japan, and later spread west and quickly "sprouted" we have a product called "crab sticks". Yes, the pluses of this product immediately noticed: it's quick preparation of a variety of dishes (mostly salads), and low price, and convenience store (bought 5-10 packs - and six months in the freezer lie, as if he had just purchased).

Most consumers, of course, do not believe in the crab origin of the product and fully realize that in fact do not buy crab meat, and meat flavored fish. But few people actually look at the reverse side of the label with the word "composition" that can tell a lot about the nutritional value of sticks.

The composition of the same sticks in all their diversity of manufacturers about the same: The main components - ground fish surimi, in the drinking water is also purified, starch, vegetable oil and deodorized, egg and vegetable protein, salt, sugar and various food additives (natural or identical to them) under the three-digit index. All of them are also listed on the label: thickeners, flavorings, colorings, flavor enhancers.

And now you can consider some of these ingredients in detail. The above meat surimi crab sticks manufacturers define as white meat fish. Although if you dig deeper, you can see that this term also indicates the waste fishing - small, damaged and other fishes.

Regarding the presence of harmful chemical additives in the crab sticks, then on this subject can firmly state: these are the Ingredients of this product (although their number still depends on the integrity of the manufacturer). So, having bought at retail packaging sticks in its composition, I found harmful drugs: a stabilizer E450, dyes, and a severe allergy E120, E160 and E171, which, in Russia, unlike Western countries, are allowed (for example, of the 72 harmful additives that are prohibited in the EU countries, law allowed only three: E121, E123, E240.) 

Of course, in a small number of substantial harm to the health data supplements are unlikely to inflict, but that's a constant use of this argument can be questioned. Especially when you consider that all of our consumer market is already saturated with products, comprised of chemical additives.

But what is most irritating in a situation with the "psevdoproduktom" to the market, it is inconsistent with its labeling established state standard, on which the product should be called "analog crab sticks. However, the sale does not meet a single product, named in accordance with GOST. Given that the Federal standard, regulatory information for the consumer on the packaging, put into effect July 17, 1997, we can say that from now the vast majority of psevdokrabovyh are beyond the law.