Identify Characteristics of squid laced with hazardous materials

Jakarta - The use of non-food additives gathering popularity. Not just for food but also for olaha fresh ingredients including fresh seafood. One is fresh squid marinated suspected hazardous materials. Check out their features!

Fresh squid sold in the market is kind of a flat sero squid and squid eggs are more obese. Squid is a type of seafood is easily reinforced soft rot if too long at room temperature.

Considering the price of fresh squid rather expensive 30,000, 00 - Rp. 35000.00 the fresh fish merchants did not want to risk to loss. Shortcut that many do is add a preservative formalin, borax and dterjen. Preservative that is used quite dangerous because it is not intended for human consumed.

On August 12, 2010 DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has also been found squid formalin when sudden inspection in Sunter, North Jakarta. In the long term use of hazardous materials could bring harm to health. Ranging from impaired kidney function, liver cancer.

The following characteristics are preserved squid with hazardous materials:

1. Skin deep purple color and some parts of the skin torn from soaked and stirred again.

2. Flesh tender, juicy with a squid head nearly off.

3. Do not spend a lot of squid ink.

4. the smell is Not rancid  and barely fly infestation.

5. Generally soaked ice cubes or ice water in large quantities so watery.

While the fresh squid has the characteristics:

2. Outer squid skin tone and still tacky white nodes throughout the body squid.

2. Flesh rather firm, its head is fused, translucent squid eye.

3. If the neck is pulled squid ink sac is still intact and spend quite a lot of ink.

4. The smell is fresh like the ocean, the typical rancid fish fresh.

5. Soaked in water but not placed in a container in a wet and fresh.

The important thing to remember when buying fresh squid, buy a subscription to the fishmonger, so you already know the quality of wares. Get used to sniff the aroma of squid and seafood before processing. Clean the squid immediately after I got home and store in refrigerator or freezer as soon as fish are easily damaged at room temperature.