What are fish sticks made of?
Fish sticks take whitefish, flour, water, bread and vegetable oil directly. Trace them back and you pass 12 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
How fish sticks are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Whitefish goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Wheat through flour
- Soybeans through vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through vegetable oil
- Clay through vegetable oil
- Air through flour, vitamin c tablet
- Rock salt through bread, table salt
- Seawater through bread, table salt
- Crude oil through vegetable oil, hexane
- Corn through flour, vitamin c tablet, corn starch
- Natural gas through flour, vitamin c tablet, hydrogen
- Sugarcane through bread, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through bread, baker's yeast, molasses
- Limestone through flour, vitamin c tablet, sugar, quicklime
Made along the way: 9 things
Chemicals and fuels 3
Glass, stone and ceramics 1
Body and health 1
Food 4
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.