Sōushuǐ yóu is a general term for oil that has been recycled it can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before.
Chinese use gutter oil.
The chinese food black market uses gutter oil as cooking oil which is unhealthy and can be fatal.
China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil.
It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and.
China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil.
What you are referring to is called gutter oil scandal which broke a few years back in which it was found that some street vendors were using oil illegally recycled from slaughterhouses and other industries etc.
Gutter oil can contain bleaches and chemicals to alter its.
According to the analysis the price of 1 ton of gutter oil was the 1700 1800 yuan while the price of 1 ton of rapeseed oil was 7000 8000 yuan.
Needless to say consuming foods that are fried with this dirty oil can be harmful to human health.
Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese food so some street vendors and hole in.
The oil contains contaminants pathogens and other potentially lethal chemicals.
To begin with they don t.
Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.
Not just inferior cooking oil relabelled as well regarded brands but made from waste oil and rotting animal parts.
China has a known problem with counterfeit cooking oil made illegally by gangs.
The difference between per kilogram of oil mixed with rapeseed oil and non adulterated rapeseed oil was 6 yuan.
Authorities are overwhelmed by the situation but only 1 10 of the cooking oil is gutter oil.
Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese food so some street vendors and hole in.
Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油.