That's right, the main ingredient is actually a fish paste called surimi. Surimi is often made from pollock fish with fillers and flavorings like starch, sugar, egg whites, and crab flavoring.

This big bump in domestic production made it possible to fully meet domestic demand for surimi used in crab sticks and other products, president of the association Alexey Buglak said MOSCOW ...

We love crabmeat—real crabmeat—and we’ll tolerate the fake stuff on occasion (known as surimi, krab, imitation crab, crab sticks, and Sea Legs) as long as we know that’s what we’re eating. We call the ...