Can I eat gold foil?

There is an edible gold foil in the gold foil, which can be added to wine, cakes, cakes, coffee, tea, hot pot, cooking, condiments, cosmetics and bathing agents to improve the quality of goods, highlight luxury and increase the festive atmosphere. Gold itself is non-toxic and stable, and will not be digested by gastric acid. The gold eaten will be excreted with the digestive tract, and will not remain in the body and will not cause poisoning.

Moreover, in terms of quantity, edible gold foil is made of pure gold and processed into thin slices, which are extremely thin, only one tenth of a millimeter. Even if you eat a little, the amount is generally small, and the little gold foil added to the food will not endanger your health.

The origin of edible gold foil;

China is the first place to eat gold in history. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, the rich in China had records of eating gold foil and powder. In modern times, eating gold foil is also very popular in Japan and Southeast Asia. 1983, the Codex Committee of Food Additives of the World Health Organization officially listed 9999 natural pure gold in the category of food additives and named it Tabeano. 3 10. In China, precious Chinese patent medicines such as Niuhuang Angong Pill, Niuhuang Qingxin Pill, Wuji Baifeng Pill and Dahuoluo Dan are all used as medicines with gold foil.

As an "imported" food, gold is not an ordinary brick, gold bar or gold ring. Gold used as food raw materials must be processed gold foil. According to legend, Ge Hong, an alchemist in the Jin Dynasty, created the gold foil process, which made pure gold undergo more than ten processes of fine processing, turning gold of different sizes into uniform gold foil as thin as cicada's wings, becoming a unique traditional process of the Chinese nation and being praised as "a must in China" in the world. This process can make a gold ring into a gold foil the size of a basketball court.