Spicy strips are also called large gluten, vegetarian beef tendon, etc. It is a food made with wheat flour or other grains and beans as the main raw materials. Spicy strips are a snack.

Spicy strips contain a large number of food additives (more than a dozen or twenty kinds). There is no unified production standard, and spicy strip manufacturers on the market generally produce according to landmarks, and the implementation standards are generally DB41/T515-2007 and GB2760.

Xia Yanbin, former dean of the College of Food Science and Technology of Hunan Agricultural University, said that spicy strips are a product made by adding water, salt and sugar to flour, extruding and ripening, and then seasoning. It is a snack for processed agricultural products. Regarding additives, as long as they are added according to national standards, they will not have any impact on human health, so spicy strips cannot be said to be junk food.

In recent years, catalyzed by Internet culture, spicy strips have been regarded as a symbol of "childhood taste" and have become the number one "Internet celebrity" in snacks with an annual output value of 50 billion yuan.

On March 15, 2019, the 2019 China Central Radio and Television Station March 15 Party exposed dangerous spicy strips, with extremely unhygienic production conditions and no health protection measures. The staff admitted that besides flour, the shrimp and egg spicy strips contain various additives.