I can assure you that meat in the Netherlands is also filled up with water. Pretty much all meat sold in the super markets will when cooked first release the water, causing the meat to boil for a bit before it is evaporated. They don’t have to mention it on the packaging if it’s below 5%, which means in reality it’s closer to 10%. Since the Netherlands exports a lot of meat, it’ll be all over at least Europe.
Meat, in general, has a lot of water. It having water is not evidence of this technique. If your meat somehow doesn’t have water then you need to be extra concerned.
Sure, but the water tends to come out during freezing, and to make up for that, they inject water before hand. Like I said, anything below 5% doesn’t have to be reported, which gets stretched to 10% so they can make up for the loss a second time.
Mandatory “in the US”.
While this one is technically legal in the EU, it would require labeling the salty water as an ingredient if it changes the weight significantly.
Aren’t they doing it with shrimps and Salomon in the eu?
It’s labeled in the US. You’ll see language like “may contain up to N% x, y, z solution” etc.
However that would require us to read
I read this comment but don’t have time to read labels on everything I eat
I can assure you that meat in the Netherlands is also filled up with water. Pretty much all meat sold in the super markets will when cooked first release the water, causing the meat to boil for a bit before it is evaporated. They don’t have to mention it on the packaging if it’s below 5%, which means in reality it’s closer to 10%. Since the Netherlands exports a lot of meat, it’ll be all over at least Europe.
Meat, in general, has a lot of water. It having water is not evidence of this technique. If your meat somehow doesn’t have water then you need to be extra concerned.
Sure, but the water tends to come out during freezing, and to make up for that, they inject water before hand. Like I said, anything below 5% doesn’t have to be reported, which gets stretched to 10% so they can make up for the loss a second time.
Is it legal? It used to be illegal.
Adding salty water to food is perfectly legal, as both salt and water are allowed ingredients for processed food. Lying about it is not.