Can the "corner ingredients" food be bought with confidence?The Consumer Protection Commission reminds to see the shelf life clearly

Bone meat between beef, bread edge, sheep ribs, and the corners of the edge of the seaweed ... Because the price is cheap and consistent with the taste of formal food, "corner ingredients" food is more and more popular with consumers. Is the "corner material" really cost -effective?

Scrimination, cake edge

"Corner ingredients" food popular

"A large bag of bread edges and cakes, as long as 5 yuan, can be used as early and snacks for three days, as well as fragments of crisp cake, only 5 yuan, but if the genuine product is 30 yuan." Aunt Su It is a frequent visitor to a cake shop. What attracts her is the "corner ingredients" of various breads and snacks that this shop starts at 7pm. Recently, she has become more and more difficult to buy these "handling goods" because more and more people like to buy "corner materials" as her.

Food "corner materials" generally refer to the fragmented materials cut and cut off when they make food. Some of them are irregular in shape, while others are not adopted by formal reasons such as production damage during production, but their processing technology and quality are the same as formal products. However, this type of "corner material" is generally not large. In order to avoid waste and increase income, some manufacturers will sell corner materials at low prices. However, most of them choose to sell to employees near the factory or directly at low prices.

Today, the business of food "corner ingredients" has been online. "Family, this pile is the beef jerky pine we produced today ..." In the live broadcast room of a beef jerky company, the anchor's introduction word has not been finished, and the beef jerky pine on the link has been sold out. The company's anchor said that these beef jerky loosening can be encountered and unavailable. It is the meat dandruff when the whole beef is dried. Because it is not genuine, it is not sold in retail channels. Some netizens want to buy, and they can only squat the live broadcast room.

Not only that, many food companies have specialized in the business of "corner ingredients", especially pastry manufacturers. The reporter of the Beiqing Daily found that some live food rooms even moved the live broadcast into the "production site" and cut the cake "production" corner ingredients in front of netizens to sell.

Such a business is also popular with netizens. Some netizens believe that the price of half of the formal products is lower, but the taste and quality are quite equivalent, but they are not selling well. What do you want to eat such snacks to eat and avoid waste.

According to statistical data, in the first quarter of 2022, the sales of food -related products related to the edge of food on an e -commerce platform were 20.3 million yuan, a significant increase of about 17 times year -on -year. Pork preserved, tiger rolls, ham sausages, bread edges and bulk sandwich biscuits, becoming the most popular corner snack representative. And some manufacturers have increased sales and profits because of their "corner materials".

Corner food foods have inverted prices

Some products are referred to as "the goods are not right"

The reporter noticed that the price of food corner materials for some online foods is not cheaper than the same type of formal products named, and some are even higher.

On the corner material page nominated as a brand of pure meat ham, 500 grams of wrapped corner material ham is priced at 29.8 yuan, but the brand has no starch ham sausage for 380 grams of online stores for 19.8 yuan, which is equivalent to 500 grams of price. To 27 yuan. There are 16.8 yuan/200 grams of tigerpie cake cakes sold by online stores, but some netizens commented that the tiger leather cake in the cake shop was only sold for 15 yuan. And this kind of "corner material" and genuine prices are also frequently appeared in other categories.

Some consumers report that the "corner material" they purchased is "a biscuits contained in a plastic bag, no information, and I don't know when it was produced."

There are also some corner food foods. Many netizens posted that "the goods are not right", and some people also questioned it as "three -free products" and pretended to be well -known brand corner materials.

Proper price comparison when buying

Be sure to see the source of food

Regarding the problems brought about by the hot sales of corner ingredients, the Jiangsu Provincial Consumer Protection Commission said recently that from the perspective of commercialization, if the production and sales vendors have complete procedures and formal operation, the "corner materials" they sell , But it can achieve the "win -win" of both parties and sellers.

In fact, food production and processing enterprises will try to reduce the generation of "corners" in order to control costs. There are a lot of food "corner ingredients" on the market. Safety risks should not be underestimated.

The Jiangsu Provincial Consumer Protection Commission suggested that consumers should also see the shelf life when buying the "corner ingredients" of online food, to see the relevant introduction of food sources, and recognize formal operators with complete certificates, clear brands, and guaranteed after -sales. Consumers can also make appropriate prices, from pursuing "cheap" to low prices to quality -consistent prices and quality consumption ideas.

In addition, for operators, we need to strengthen the awareness of integrity and abide by the law. Do not have the "drilling empty" psychology in the production or sales. In particular, we must resolutely eliminate the second processing of fragmented materials such as different batches, no standardized quality inspection, no production license without production permit, Waiting for behavior. Merchants should also take the initiative to "cool down" this model to optimize the process and try to reduce the generation of corner materials. Only by the improvement of the processes, the quality traceability, and the sound after -sales system, can all the mechanisms be fully implemented? Obligations.

Source: China News Network

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