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| Photo by kisocci |
Some time ago the Spanish crown
visited China with the important task to open the Chinese market to the Spanish
product. China is a country that consumes
around 2 million pigs a day so was very easy to think that the famous Spanish
ham will be have a great market to explode. So the Chinese government sent to
Spain to inspect the Spanish ham producers for health production reason.
Apparently more than healthy inspector China sent spies. A few year later China
start to produce Chinese ham that look very similar to the Spanish ham, of
course produced in half of the time and 10 times cheaper, they use Chinese pig
breed but how they produced the ham is very similar process to the Spanish and they
will be soon exporting to the rest of the world. As far I read some people say
that the flavour is not even close and other that for not expert consumer or
new market consumer will be taste all right.
Anyway the Spanish start
to fear like happen before with another products that the Chinese Ham overtake
the global market , so the Seville University already is working in project through
a chemic identification process to determinate the authenticity of the famous
Iberian ham and another Spanish traditional food products, where it came from and which product has been used.
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