How do people treat food additives correctly?

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Be careful of mutated foods and food additives on the table -

Healthy people eat differently from you

It can be said that as long as people today cannot live without food, they cannot live without food additives. Time is money, and the value of food processing lies in saving consumers’ time, but the nutritional value of food is often lost as a result. In fact, food safety issues caused by additives are no longer a matter of one day or two. From Sudan red to sunset yellow, parared, bleach, preservatives... the safety hazards caused by food additives have always worried us.

Food additives, angels or devils

Food additives are chemical synthesis added to food to improve food quality, color, aroma and taste, as well as to meet the needs of preservation and processing technology. substances or natural substances. Food additives are divided into 22 categories, including more than 1,600 varieties, most of which are extracted from plants and some are artificially synthesized.

It is understood that the food additives currently approved for use in our country include:

⑴ Nutritional fortifiers added to enhance the nutritional value of food;

⑵ To maintain the nutritional value of food Added for freshness, such as preservatives, antioxidants, preservatives, etc.;

⑶Pigments, spices, bleaching powder, flavor enhancers, sweeteners, loosening agents, antioxidants added to improve quality Caking agents and quality improvers, etc.;

⑷ Defoaming agents, release agents, emulsifiers, stabilizers, etc. added to facilitate processing.

The existence of food additives is necessary for food manufacturers. If a food is not fragrant, not sweet, and does not look good, who will buy it? Food additives just make up for the shortcomings of processed food.

Of course, although additives play an irreplaceable role in processed foods, excessive or illegal use undoubtedly casts a shadow on food safety.

The taste of many of the foods we like is actually the taste created by many food additives. Information on food processing is not disclosed. Many people naively believe that "things produced by first-class manufacturers are fine" and "things sold in large supermarkets can't be wrong." Our tongues are being damaged by food additives without even realizing it. It's really sad.

Is it necessarily good if it is purely natural?

Due to the fear of "additives", the pursuit of so-called pure natural food has become an important or even the only criterion for many people when purchasing food. "No preservatives" and "no additives" have become widely used food promotion terms.

However, "purely natural" foods also have many potential hazards that we are not expecting: For example, foods that do not contain antioxidants may undergo oxidation reactions, producing oxidative substances that are harmful to human health, and are not easily detected. , may cause great potential harm to the body; some foods without preservatives may spoil during storage because they cannot effectively inhibit the growth and reproduction of microorganisms. Therefore, we cannot take the so-called pure natural food lightly.

Abuse of food additives can put your life at risk

There was once a joke: A customer asked the sausage shop owner if he could give him a discount since he had been buying sausages here for 7 consecutive years. price. "Seven years!" The butcher shop owner turned around and said in surprise: "How come you are still alive now?"

What does this joke tell us? It reminds us in a humorous way to be careful about the dangers of misuse of food additives. The issue of food additives is actually very concerning because they may affect children's learning ability and may even be carcinogens.

Ideal food additives should be beneficial and harmless substances, but some food additives, especially chemically synthesized food additives, often have a certain degree of toxicity. If food additives are used substandard, they can become a killer of human health. Of course, food additives only show toxic effects when they reach a certain concentration or dose level.

Fragrant braised duck, crystal clear vermicelli, fresh wild mushrooms, the colorful foods on the market are always stimulating our appetite with their color, aroma and taste. You may not have thought that these delicious and delicious foods may be the result of food additives.

In order to make the braised food look bright in color, hydrogen peroxide, sodium nitrite, industrial caustic soda, carmine, etc. are added; in order to make the melon seeds look better, a large amount of alum, industrial salt, paraffin, and melanin are added. There is also swill oil; in order to make wild mushrooms look more tender and delicious, the mushrooms are soaked in preservatives and bleach for processing... During the synthesis process of artificial pigments, some may be mixed with impurities such as arsenic, mercury and other substances. It is carcinogenic and is more harmful to the health of people, especially children who are in the growth and development stage; preservatives and bleaches contain sulfur components, which react with water to produce sulfur dioxide, which is a carcinogen.

Researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK investigated the consumption of food additives as early as 2000 and found that food additives have adverse effects on children's behavior, leading to irritability, poor attention, hyperactivity and allergies. There were multiple reactions, and the study became known as the "Isle of White Study."

According to food safety statistics in recent years, more than 200,000 people in my country suffer from food poisoning every year, which means that these problematic foods can poison an average of 500 people every day! Some of them have an acute onset, with obvious and severe symptoms, and failure to rescue in time can lead to death; some have a slow onset, with toxins repeatedly damaging body tissues and causing chronic lesions or cancer. About half of people who get cancer are caused by food contamination, and the root cause of some of these contaminations is food additives. Due to the misuse of food additives, heavy metal pollution in food will form a chronic accumulation in the human body, causing cancer, rickets and other previously unheard of diseases. It is no wonder that there are more and more strange diseases nowadays.

Keep your eyes open for these five food additives

Consumers should pay attention to the five types of food additives:

⑴Bleach

Use dead sow pork to make meat floss. In order to change the color of the meat products, a large amount of hydrogen peroxide is added to change the color of the dead pork; oxidative bleach is used to cover up the spoiled appearance of meat and seafood; carcinogenic industrial supplies containing formaldehyde are "whitened" "Block" is added to rice noodles, yuba and other foods.

⑵Coloring agents

Abuse of processed sweeteners such as lemon yellow; excessive use of sunset yellow in canned fruits to make them look bright and non-fading; add a kind of additive called added Feeding chickens with Lisuhong pigment feed will make them produce reddish eggs.

⑶Preservatives

This is often used in some yuba and rice noodle products.

(4) Flavors and spices

A considerable number of companies privately produce, distribute, and use food spices that are not approved by the state, or use low-quality or illegal raw materials to make huge profits. Cold drinks, candies, baked goods, puffed foods, dairy products, meat products, etc. may contain excessive amounts of flavors.

(5) Sweeteners

Excessive use of saccharin sodium is very common, especially in some inferior beverages, candied fruits and preserved fruits.

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