Gutter Oil Starbucks

More big chains have been drawn into the scandal over the use of old or tainted cooking oil in hong kong as it emerged on monday that cakes made with gutter oil had been sold by 7 eleven.

Gutter oil starbucks. In a report by the south china morning post 7 eleven maxim s cakes and two products served at starbucks could have been made with the gutter oil a vile and illicit cooking substance that is comprised of waste oils from sources such as restaurant fryers sewer drains offal food waste and the byproducts of leather tanneries. Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油. It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and. 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.

A community worker center in shanghai recycles used cooking oil on march 6. If you re able to stomach it a radio free asia video clip from last year explains. Maxim admits it used the oil in its pineapple buns but nothing taken from 7 11 starbucks or cafe de coral have tested positive. Gutter oil is oil that s been recycled from waste cooking oil.

As well as branches of 7 eleven and starbucks. In fact the centre for food safety reports that nothing tested in hong kong has tested positive for gutter oil yet. Starbucks maxim s cafe express and 7 eleven have today found themselves at the centre of a scandal over the use of gutter oil in their products. China has become starbucks second largest and fastest growing market there are more than 3 000 starbucks stores in china with 600 in shanghai alone and starbucks plans to increase that number.

In some cases it s produced using discarded animal parts animal fat and skins internal organs and expired or otherwise low quality. Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.