Xibei’s backbone is stiff.
Today, the National Health Commission released a draft national standard for pre-made dishes and solicited public comments.
There are four points to the standard, and we will analyze them one by one.
1. The focus of the first point of the standard is that pre-made dishes do not add preservatives. They need to be heated or cooked before consumption.
2. The types of pre-made dishes do not include these
The first category, pre-made dishes do not include staple foods, such as steamed buns, hamburgers, and frozen dumplings. If pre-made dishes are considered dishes, then are vegetable buns and vegetable porridge considered pre-made dishes?
The second category, cleaned vegetables, such as diced carrots in bags and washed vegetables. Then Xibei’s broccoli does not belong to pre-made dishes.
The third category, ready-to-eat foods, such as sausages, pickled pepper chicken feet, and salads, because pre-made dishes must be heated or cooked before consumption, so this type is also not pre-made dishes.
The fourth category, dishes made in central kitchens do not belong to pre-made dishes. This is the focus of this pre-made dish standard. I don’t know who formulated these standards. Did the big names in the catering industry play a key role?
I think the standards for dairy products are set by industry leaders like Yili and Mengniu.
Looking at it this way, the sausages and cured meats we eat during the Chinese New Year are not within these four standards, so are sausages and cured meats also considered pre-made dishes?
3. Shelf life, not exceeding 12 months. It seems that Xibei’s two-year-old broccoli needs to be changed.
4. Do not use preservatives and minimize the use of food additives. If a national standard only says to minimize the use of additives, then in the process of implementation, there is no standard, it all depends on feeling.
Now everyone’s biggest complaint about pre-made dishes is actually the central kitchen dishes of major chain catering giants.
If it’s like the central kitchen of some schools, making a large pot of food, making it in the morning and eating it at noon, I think it’s acceptable, after all, the time is short.
But the central kitchens of these catering giants don’t make it in the morning and eat it at noon, the shelf life is set to a year. In other words, according to this standard, those made by central kitchens with a shelf life of less than a year are not called pre-made dishes.
Even if such dishes meet the standards of not being pre-made dishes, are these the dishes the common people want?
Pre-made dishes, pre-made dishes, I think a major standard should be added to pre-made dishes: vegetables cannot be pre-made, and the central kitchen cannot pre-make vegetables for more than 6 hours.
Meat can be pre-made because the speed of meat spoilage is very slow, while the spoilage of vegetables is very fast, and once it starts to spoil, it will produce a large amount of nitrite.
Because a dish, such as stir-fried green peppers with meat, contains meat and vegetables, even if it is stir-fried and frozen, the vegetables will also deteriorate. If you want to keep the vegetables from deteriorating, you may need to use some technology.
We usually don’t even eat leftovers, so how can we eat vegetables with a shelf life of one year.
It’s almost the Chinese New Year, and we have to go to various banquets again. Looking at the table full of dishes without the smell of the wok, it’s really hard to pick up the chopsticks. Not only is there no wok smell, but some hot dishes are even cold.
The common people go to restaurants and pay a high price for the service of chefs making dishes on the spot, but who would have thought that many restaurants now don’t cook themselves, but use microwave ovens and induction cookers for heating.
I’m thinking, now that the national standard hasn’t been released, everyone is complaining that many restaurants are pre-made dishes, and everyone has their own opinions. But if the national standard for pre-made dishes comes out, Luo Yonghao dares to say that Xibei is a pre-made dish, then it may constitute defamation.
With this standard, Xibei can rightfully say that it is not a pre-made dish in the future.
In the future, when everyone is complaining about pre-made dishes, they should be careful. In the future, when posting, you should say, these central kitchen dishes and pre-processed dishes are really unpalatable. Or these dishes are not freshly made and sold.
I think that even if these central kitchen dishes do not meet the pre-made dish standards, they should also inform consumers that these are central kitchen dishes. These are not freshly made and sold dishes.
Let consumers have the right to know, instead of pretending to be freshly made and sold dishes under the guise of not being pre-made dishes.
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