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I didn't realize this until I was watching a segment on America's Test Kitchen. They were making a dish with shrimp. Well, while the dish was cooking the host started talking about just what is in the frozen shrimp we are buying... sodium tripolyphosphate. This is used to "plump" up the shrimp and keep it longer. This chemical is also used in cleaning products... like those used to clean your toilet. This may have been posted already.
I respect Cooks Illustrated a lot, but there are plenty of additives in our food that are harmless.
I always read about the origin of the seafood I buy, and as for shrimp, we try to buy local GA shrimp.
I didn't realize this until I was watching a segment on America's Test Kitchen. They were making a dish with shrimp. Well, while the dish was cooking the host started talking about just what is in the frozen shrimp we are buying... sodium tripolyphosphate. This is used to "plump" up the shrimp and keep it longer. This chemical is also used in cleaning products... like those used to clean your toilet. This may have been posted already.
This is pretty disgusting.
It's only disgusting if they are recycling the stuff, and putting it in the shrimp AFTER it is used to clean the toilet. There are a lot of multipurpose chemicals that can be used in many different ways, which does not by itself make them disgusting.
From Wiki:
STPP is a preservative for seafood, meats, poultry, and animal feeds.[5] It is common in food production as E number E451. In foods, STPP is used to retain moisture. Many governments regulate the quantities allowed in foods, as it can substantially increase the sale weight of seafood in particular. The United States Food and Drug Administration lists STPP as "generally recognized as safe."
Other uses (hundreds of thousands of tons/year) include "ceramics, leather tanning (as masking Agent and Synthetic Tanning Agent-SYNTAN), anticaking, setting retarders, flame retardants, paper, anticorrosion pigments, textiles, rubber manufacture, fermentation, antifreeze."
What you're saying is tantamount to saying that drinking out of plastic cups is "disgusting" because medical labs also use plastic cups to transport stool samples. What's the connection?
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