Canned sprats

On New Year's Eve, the menu of most residents of the Soviet Union consisted of well-known and much-loved dishes. The hostesses began to fry, soar, bake cakes and scold salads the day before the holiday. Until now, little has changed among traditional table dishes on Christmas and New Year holidays. All the same, the hostesses prepare Olivier, herring on a fur coat, meat chops, mashed potatoes and, of course, sandwiches with canned sprats.

Once canned sprats were considered a hard-to-reach delicacy. Canned sprats always cost a lot and this once again proved that in Soviet times you could buy real canned sprats, and not a cheap fake that is sold at the price of the original. The surprising but economically sound logic of fish harvesters and producers. As soon as the fish ceases to be a delicacy, under its famous name, the brand name begins to produce anything.

Under the brand name "Canned sprats" nowadays, you are likely to receive Caspian sprat, herring, herring or other small fish, which will be smoked and preserved in oil so that an ordinary consumer will not even feel the forgery. So, let's take a close look at the contents of a can that says canned sprats.

We think many have noted that sprats from different manufacturers differ in color. In fact, color depends only on the method of smoking fish that a particular canned food manufacturer uses. According to sanitary standards, the color of high-quality canned sprats can vary from light yellow to brown.

This is what exactly affects the quality of canned sprats is the smell of the product. If you open a can and find that sprat fish smell like smoke, then this is a signal that technological rules have been violated during the production process.

The correct canned sprats are made using premium olive oil. As you can imagine, this is an expensive product, so the current canned food uses cheap vegetable oil. Quite often you can find this - the manufacturer intends to reduce the amount of fish fixed by GOST in a can. This is usually noticed after the canned food has been opened.

However, you can still determine how many sprats in the bank when buying. You need to shake the can and if its contents "squelch" loudly, then more oil has been added to the canned food. The oil and calorie content of canned sprats should be said separately. Usually the calorie content of one jar (240 gr) with sprats of 871 Kcal is about 363 Kcal per 100 grams of product.

Sprats themselves are not considered particularly high-calorie fish, but the method of preserving them in vegetable oil increases the calorie content of sprats by several times. True, real canned sprats are considered a really useful and dietary product for the human body, because they contain the daily intake of vitamin E, as well as calcium and chromium. Olive oil adds sprats not only easily digestible natural fats, but also useful biological compounds.