7 Foods That Have Occurred in Indonesia

Meatball Borax

For those of you who loved snacks meatballs, should be more careful. The majority of meatballs on the market were using borax preservatives.

The district health office data Jombang East Java said, of the 39 samples found 6 raid meatballs results using borax preservatives.

Razia meatballs traders who allegedly use of hazardous substances to the human body is done by a number of officers Jombang health office, at some point. Officers went straight to the merchant and check the meatballs. Not only that, the officers also took samples of meatballs to do laboratory tests related to the rampant circulation of meatball containing borax.

Pharmaceutical Section Head Food and Beverage (Kasi Farmakmin) Health Jombang, Anna Dyan, said the raid was aimed to anticipate the rampant circulation of food or beverages, especially meatballs containing borax.

Anna claimed at least from 39 samples of meatballs that have been the result of raids conducted laboratory tests, six of which contain positively harmful preservative borax. According to Anna, in addition to harming consumers meatballs contain borax is very harmful to human body when consumed.

Tofu and Tempeh Formalin


When picking out, choose which its normal elasticity. Know that too chewy possibility of using formalin. Do not choose a sour smell or slimy. Meanwhile, when choosing a Tempe, select which smells fresh and solid soybean.

Saving know should be boiled for a minute for fermentation stops so it does not taste sour. Store in sealed container in the refrigerator. While the tempeh should be wrapped tightly when stored in the refrigerator. Tempe is not durable. Should not be stored for more than two days.

Glonggongan Meat

Glonggongan Meat contains too much water because the cows were given to drink as much as possible before being slaughtered. Meat glonggongan feels heavier than it is because of excessive water content.

Chicken Tiren

Chicken tiren many traditional markets traded at a price per head USD. 500, -,
interesting is not it? The characteristics of chicken tiren full skin rashes and here and there is a bluish color. Seller fried chicken gives dyes for these signs disappeared, but still could be marked after the flesh torn flesh color looks reddish.

Or if you have not eaten, neither are on the way from the market in a pool of plastic
water mixed with blood.

How to mark if the chicken in the curry and sold for Rp. 2.500/potong in warteg along behind gedung2 office in Jln. Sudirman? From the price, because the price of fresh chicken USD, 15.000/ekor, so it is not possible to sell USD. 2.500/1/4 tail. Servants are fond of buying chicken because it is cheap and the reason for the seller because it was already noon, when the capital was only Rp. 200, -/ekor on chicken farms are bought for, he said, a meal of catfish in the pond, but steered in the market.

What is a "chicken tiren"?, Was "chickens that died yesterday."

Rotten Sauce

It turns out ingredients to make tomato sauce and chili sauce from tomatoes and peppers were rotten! immediately wrote in look.

A number of traders of vegetables and herbs claim to chili, tomatoes, onions, and papaya are almost rot be sold to a few small industries as a material mix makes sauce bottles are sold in traditional markets.

"We deliberately did not discard the herbs and bulbs that had rotted, because behavior is still to be processed again into tomato sauce or chili sauce to mix noodles chicken and other dishes," said Rohimah, one of the vegetable traders in the Grass Market, Jakarta.

Traders from Sragen, Central Java said, the producers buy the chili sauce, tomatoes and rotten onions worth Rp400-Rp700 per kilogram, while papaya, potatoes and other tubers Rp500-Rp600 per kilogram.

"Even at a low price can be purchased to add to earnings. Yes, rather than discarded useless, "he said.

Women who had seven years as a trader of vegetables and other kitchen ingredients, said his spare time when I'm lonely buyer used to sort through tens of kilograms of chili peppers, tomatoes, and potatoes that had rotted to be collected and sold back to the sauce maker.

WHAT IS THE PRICE AND INCOME related rotten rotten?

"The average day I get extra income from selling chili, potatoes, and other cooking ingredients that had rotted around Rp5.000. Even if the rainy season could get 10,000 - Rp15 000, "he said.

The same thing is said Sunarso (54), Grass Market traders in fruit, papaya, persimmon, or other fruit that is soft and almost rotten to be purchased by the bottle to thicken the sauce maker sauce they made manually.

"Before, I did not know that rotten fruit is also still there in need, so if there is a rotten fruit still I gathered, to add revenue," he said.

According to the father of one child, two or three days to take fruit sauce makers that have been set aside under the table wares.

Food Gilding

This time it is still a matter of food coloring - the use of which they never ributkan in Indonesia since 1977. But, his shout seemed more serious this time. Because, it turns out the manufacture and use of gilding material for coloring foods such as chinese girlfriend to look better, which among others has been acknowledged to cause cancer to humans, it is now increasingly unsupervised...

Fake Eggs

Food prices are more expensive, of late to impact the price of other goods. The traders have racked his brains to survive. They should be smart in selling their wares. Unfortunately, there are some unscrupulous traders who cheat. They fake merchandise to achieve a larger profit. Fake eggs are not made from the original duck egg but from chicken eggs. When traders sell normally would call it a duck eggs from the egg, but it was not. Conducted mode manifold. They buy chicken eggs by choosing large eggs first. Next they bought at a hardware store paint walls and buildings. Ingredients are mixed to change the color of chicken eggs duck eggs are generally brown to green. Before colored, chicken eggs should first be washed clean and free of dirt can be attached for perfect paint. Next they prepared the dough and pengasin dye. They mix the material and the reinforcement wall paint color with coarse salt. Finally, even this eggs soaked 3 to 5 days. After soaking the eggs are washed clean for the next given starch. Flour is useful to give the impression that the color of artificial eggs was similar to the original color.