Smoked squid

Smoked food products enjoyed special popularity and demand at all times primarily due to their distinctive taste and nutritional characteristics. The smoking process is one of the types of heat treatment that has a preservative effect on the food. The main trump card of smoking is the use of smoke, under the influence of which food is dehydrated.

After smoking, not only the taste and consumer characteristics of food products change. The chemical composition of products that are saturated with phenols, resins, formic, as well as acetic acids and aldehydes is significantly changed. Not only meat and fish are smoked, but also various types of seafood.

Smoked squid is the most popular in our latitudes. It is worth noting that on sale most often there are not carcasses of smoked squid, but shellfish fillet, which looks like smoked sheets. It is noteworthy that for the manufacture of smoked squid they use not the most common species of mollusk Loligo vulgaris or ordinary squid, but the more impressive Todarodes pacificus Pacific squid.

It is believed that meat from the common squid is better used to make various culinary products. And the lower palatability of Pacific squid meat is just perfect for smoking. Smoked squid is considered an important ingredient in Japan's national culinary tradition, as well as other Asian states. Nowadays, domestic consumers are also happy to purchase smoked squid and use the product as an independent fish snack or ingredient in the process of making salads, soups, as well as original snacks and sauces.

Benefits of smoked squid

It is worth noting that smoked squid favorably differs not only in its taste and aroma characteristics, but also in its chemical composition. The benefits of smoked squid lie in the chemical composition of the product, which contains a certain amount of compounds useful for the human body. The squid is smoked both cold and hot by smoking.

During the heat treatment process, the initial composition of the mollusk certainly changes, but the smoked squid is enriched with a sufficiently large amount of protein of natural origin, which in turn contains amino acids indispensable for the human body. The main benefit of smoked squid is due to the high content of natural and easy-to-use whitewash in the product.

The calorie content of smoked squid can vary depending on the species belonging to the mollusk and the method of manufacture. However, the average caloric content of smoked squid is 242 Kcal, which are contained in 100 grams of mollusk. It is worth noting that doctors do not advise consuming smoked food, including squid in large quantities. It is believed that during the smoking process, carcinogenic substances dangerous to humans are formed in the product.