What are Seafood Extender / Crab Sticks made out of ?!
Also I found the following online and wanted your thoughts...
"Recently, while shopping for ingredients to make a spaghetti marinara, i purchased some "seafood extender", in the large part due to the incredibly cheap price of the product.
Seafood extender, incase you are unfamiliar with the substance, is a processed product made from seafood off cuts, which is generally white-ish in colour and has one side painted orange to emulate crab meat.
Upon making the spaghetti marinara (mostly from genuine seafood ingredients), i was left with quite a bit of surplus seafood extender. Given the price, i had no hesitation in throwing the surplus into the bin.
The following evening, after coming home quite late, i opened the cupboard door where the bin is located, and noticed a dim light inside. Further investigation revealed that the light was in fact the remaining seafood extender GLOWING! "
Answers: I really like it but I'm hearing some nasty theories about what it could be, any ideas ?
Also I found the following online and wanted your thoughts...
"Recently, while shopping for ingredients to make a spaghetti marinara, i purchased some "seafood extender", in the large part due to the incredibly cheap price of the product.
Seafood extender, incase you are unfamiliar with the substance, is a processed product made from seafood off cuts, which is generally white-ish in colour and has one side painted orange to emulate crab meat.
Upon making the spaghetti marinara (mostly from genuine seafood ingredients), i was left with quite a bit of surplus seafood extender. Given the price, i had no hesitation in throwing the surplus into the bin.
The following evening, after coming home quite late, i opened the cupboard door where the bin is located, and noticed a dim light inside. Further investigation revealed that the light was in fact the remaining seafood extender GLOWING! "
Glowing? COOL! It's almost worth the price to buy it, then toss the whole thing just to see that.
I think I'll visit snopes to see if ithis tale has made it over there yet.
Nope, nothing on snopes.
Hey, I found something!
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~ear/sea-glow.h...
The consumers' seafood products "glowing" in the dark were not due to radiation or to fluorescence, which requires an ultraviolet light to trigger the reaction. These seafood products exhibited luminescence due to the presence of certain bacteria that are capable of emitting light. Luminescence by bacteria is due to a chemical reaction catalyzed by luciferase, a protein similar to that found in fireflies. The reaction involves oxidation of a reduced flavin mononucleotide and a long chain aliphatic aldehyde by molecular oxygen to produce oxidized flavin plus fatty acid and light (5, 12). The amount of light emitted by cultured luminescent bacteria depends on the composition of the media used for culturing, incubation temperature, age of the culture, bacterial cell density, and species. Most of these species require salt except for the two nonmarine luminescent bacteria
Wow, never heard of that before. Maybe it was irradiated? Maybe the whitefish or cod [main ingredients of most brands] has a natural iridescence to it, like a lot of fish do. Interesting, but probably safe and harmless. If this is something you read online, I wouldn't give much credence to it, there's a lot of nuts on here.
I thought it was langostino.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langostino
http://www.chicagofoodies.com/2006/03/la...
It is made primariliy of shark meat, sometimes it has scallops and sometimes it has real crab in it and a floursescent dye, if it glows, "dont eat it"......that is a trace compound meant to tell you when the food goes bad.
Terisu has it. The glow is caused by bacteria certain bacteria. Erie ain't it?