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Surimi (魚肉練り製品): What It Is, Ingredients & Origin

Last updated: 2026-09-17

Surimi (魚肉練り製品) is a Japanese food classified as convenience food, fish paste, shrimp paste. Ingredients listed for it include fish fillet.

Name in Japanese魚肉練り製品
Typeconvenience food, fish paste, shrimp paste
Main ingredientsfish fillet
Background readingWikipedia (English)

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