MZ Generation Popular Baseball Stadium Cup Meat, can I eat it?

Aug 21, 2025

MZ Generation Popular Baseball Stadium Cup Meat, can I eat it?
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In 2025, the Korean professional baseball is attracting the audience at the fastest pace in a decade. With the influx of the intuition culture of the MZ generation, the cheering atmosphere has become younger, and the food trend is also rapidly expanding to unique menus such as cup meat, cup chicken, cream shrimp, churros ice cream, and ice cream melon bread, away from the past chicken and pizza centers.

Among them, the menu that attracts particular attention is cup raw beef. It is a menu with raw meat, thin ice broth, cucumbers, and pears in one cup, and is very popular in that it can be enjoyed cool and conveniently in hot weather.

Traditional Korean food, yukhoe, has been transformed into a convenient food enjoyed in popular spaces such as baseball stadiums, and various recipes are coming out, such as adding yukhoe to existing bibim ramen or carbonara or mixing yukhoe with buldak sauce. This can be seen as an example in which yukhoe in the image of traditional Korean food is reinterpreted to suit the tastes and tastes of the younger generation.




However, since raw beef is a raw meat eaten without heat cooking, special attention is needed because it may be contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms during manufacturing, distribution, and storage.

In particular, pathogenic bacteria that can cause food poisoning, such as salmonella and enterohemorrhagic E. coli, can rapidly proliferate if exposed to high temperature environments in summer or outdoors for a long time. In fact, according to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety's 2020-2024 monthly Salmonella food poisoning outbreak status, the number of cases from July to September accounts for about 52% of the total number of cases.

Director Kim Jae-han of Daedong Hospital said, `It is natural to experience new foods amid rapidly changing food culture trends, but we need to be aware of the health effects of these foods"Especially raw meat, such as raw beef, which is not heated, poses a risk of food poisoning, so safe eating methods and hygiene management are essential." Careful choices and appropriate attention are required to maintain a pleasant food culture while taking care of health.'




When purchasing raw beef, purchase it from a reliable seller through HACCP (Food Safety Management Certification Standards) certification and hygiene rating system.

After purchase, check the freshness through color, smell, etc., along with the packaging status, product packaging date, and expiration date, and consume it as soon as possible, and discard the remaining raw beef. If it is difficult to receive it immediately, it is advisable to refrain from purchasing online.

If symptoms of food poisoning such as sudden and severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, high fever, or chills appear after consumption, visit a nearby medical institution immediately for treatment. Infants, pregnant women, elderly people, chronically ill people, and immunocompromised people have a high risk of severe food poisoning, so they should refrain from eating raw meat.






MZ Generation Popular Baseball Stadium Cup Meat, can I eat it?
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.