If you, like me, like imitation crab and, like me, have wondered what exactly it is you're eating (and enjoying nonetheless), Susan Westmoreland, food director at GHRI, reveals it to us:
If you've eaten a California roll, or crab salad from your deli, you've dined on surimi, the retail name for imitation crab and lobster. It starts with real minced whitefish (usually Alaskan pollock), which is seasoned with seafood extracts, mixed with starch and egg whites, and shaped into faux-crab or -lobster pieces.
(And it has half the cholesterol of real crab too.)
[ via Good Housekeeping, December 2007 ]
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