How to identify rat meat?

2013 At the beginning of May, the Ministry of Public Security announced that a food safety crime case was cracked, which showed that unscrupulous merchants mixed untested meat such as foxes, minks and rats into mutton and sold them to farmers' markets in Shanghai and other places. These businessmen were accused of selling the mouse meat, fox meat and mink meat they bought as mutton. This criminal gang added gelatin, carmine and nitrate to "mutton" and then sold it to Shanghai and neighboring Jiangsu Province.

In less than a year, food scandals such as horse meat meatballs from IKEA in Sweden and dead floating pigs from China appeared one after another. The truth recently exposed is also shocking.

American Foreign Policy found Laura, an artist who lives in North Carolina. Laura silver. Last year, she prepared a five-course banquet with the theme of rat meat, and she became a rat meat appraiser. With her help, we are here to provide you with five kinds of mouse meat to let you know that you are eating mouse meat.

First of all, it smells like rat meat. The skin of mice secretes a kind of oil, which gives them a special smell of rodents. Some people think it tastes like tacos, while others think it tastes like urine. No matter what it looks like, the taste is unique. Although the smell of rats is indeed reduced after peeling and cooking, it is impossible to completely remove these smells by cooking anyway.

Second, it tastes like rat meat. The fat secreted by rats makes the meat taste different. Jean said the smell was strong and pungent-much like raccoon meat or rabbit meat. When mixed with other meats, the taste of rat meat is very different from that of rat meat, so special attention must be paid to distinguish it.

Third, it tastes very delicious after being brushed with spirits and syrup. Joan has eaten rat meat cooked in different ways, which is her favorite. The second is to eat French bread and toast with smoked rat jerky. Therefore, if you happen to be enjoying a barbecue, or think that the beef jerky you are eating is a bit "rodent-like", you may need to check the ingredients.

Fourth, it looks like mutton. Raw mouse meat is pink or red and looks like mutton. Unfortunately, for people in China, rat meat looks just like any other meat. Because of the shape of the cut, Jean thinks that the cooked mouse meat looks more like rabbit meat.

5. You live in Asia. According to Jean, it is very common for Asians to eat rat meat because of rice cultivation. In areas where mice eat rice instead of garbage, this rodent is considered safe to eat. Of course, it is not clear whether the rat meat sold as mutton in China market is healthy, and whether these rats are fed with rice or live in sewers to eat garbage. The New York Times reported that the arrest notice did not explain how the businessmen got the mice and other animals. Mice are also carriers of diseases, so when Jean cooks by himself, the mouse meat he ordered comes from a company that provides grain for rodents in the zoo.