BC supermarkets stock only Phillips Food for picked crab meat. Thrifty Foods sell them in plastic cylinders:
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To me, Phillips's crab always tastes wacky, like chemicals. Does anyone taste this or know why?
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In England, I stumbled on White and White & Brown Orkney Crab at M&S Foodhall. It tasted truly crabby, delicious and fresh, unlike Phillips. Why?
Best Answer
A quick comparison of the listed ingredients shows only crab meat for the M&S products (clearly visible in the photos in your question), whereas the Phillip’s website of the pictured product says:
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate is also called Disodium pyrophosphate and the Wikipedia article states:
In short, you taste something because there is something other than just crab meat. If SAPP tastes unpleasant to you, avoid products with it and choose ones without a preservative or with a different one (if a taste test is ok for you). In a pinch, masking the off taste may be possible, but not necessarily what you are looking for - you’d also be masking the crab flavor.