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The rapid development of the Internet has brought about a faster pace of urban life, we are running and busy every day in order to make a living, everyone is not willing to be mediocre, scrambling to want their own life to be colorful, but we all forget that "colorful" is toxic!
Every mother likes to give the best to her children, let the children enjoy a different life from others, and even if they eat foreign imports, even if they don't know any of the complicated foreign languages, they still feel that it is good.
But I don't know a popular truth: in general, the longer the ingredient list, the more deeply processed the food, the farther away from health. Processed foods may not be irresistible for adults, but for children, those sweet and salty colorful snacks are so tempting. Children over the age of three do not give snacks at all, which seems to be unrealistic and deprives many children of their happiness.
The color of food is an important factor in the sensory quality of food. People often use a food additive in the preparation of food - food coloring. There are two main categories of food coloring used: natural food coloring and synthetic food coloring.
And natural pigments here everyone knows, such as our daily eating of carrots, seaweed, kale, greens, amaranth, purple potatoes, sweet potatoes, grapes, bananas and other vegetables and fruits with bright colors, these natural ingredients can be used to be squeezed out of a variety of colors, mixed in our daily pasta, rice, etc. combined into a colorful food.
These are of course the healthiest and most natural delicacies, but we need to know that in mass production, natural pigments are rarely used in large quantities in processed foods due to their shelf life and price problems, while synthetic food coloring is the most common in mass production.
Synthetic pigment limit standard
●Amaranth red
According to China's "Hygiene Standards for the Use of Food Additives" (GB2760-1996), it can be used for high-sugar juice (flavor) or juice (flavor) beverages, carbonated drinks, prepared wine, candy, pastries on color, green plum, hawthorn products, pickled side dishes, the maximum use of 0.05g/kg; for red and green silk, dyeing cherries (for decoration), the maximum dosage of 0.10g/kg
●Carmine
According to the "Sanitary Standards for the Use of Food Additives" (GB2760-1996), it can be used for high-sugar juice (flavor) or juice (flavor) beverages and carbonated beverages, prepared wine, candy and pastries on color, plum, hawthorn products, pickled side dishes, the maximum use amount is 0.05g/kg; for red and green silk and dyed cherries (for decorative use), the maximum dosage is 0.10g/kg, and the maximum dosage of soy milk drinks and ice cream is 0.025g/kg (residue 0.01g/kg) Shrimp (flavor) slices 0.05g/kg, candy coating 0.10g/kg.
● Temptation red
According to the provisions of China's "Sanitary Standards for the Use of Food Additives" (GB2760-1996), it can be used for candy coating, with a maximum use of 0.085g/kg, and the maximum use of ice cream and fried chicken seasoning is 0.07g/kg
● Sunset yellow
According to China's "Sanitary Standards for the Use of Food Additives" (GB2760-1996), it can be used for high-sugar juice (flavor) or fruit juice (flavor) beverages, carbonated drinks, prepared wine, candy, pastries, canned watermelon sauce, green plum, lactic acid bacteria beverage, plant protein drink, shrimp (flavor) tablets The maximum use amount is 0.10g/kg, the maximum use amount for candy coating and red and green silk is 0.20g/kg; the maximum use for ice cream is 0.09g/kg.
● Lemon yellow
According to China's "Sanitary Standards for the Use of Food Additives" (GB2760-1996), it can be used for high-sugar juice (flavor) or fruit juice (flavor) beverages, carbonated drinks, prepared wine, candy, pastries, canned watermelon sauce, green plum, shrimp (flavor) slices, and pickled side dishes The maximum use amount is 0.10g/kg; the maximum use amount for candy coating and red and green silk is 0.20g/kg; the maximum amount used for ice cream is 0.02g/kg; plant beverages, The maximum use of lactic acid bacteria beverages is 0.05g/kg.
●Bright blue
According to China's "Sanitary Standards for the Use of Food Additives" (GB2760-1996), it can be used for high-sugar juice (flavor) or fruit juice (flavor) beverages, carbonated drinks, prepared wine, candy, pastries, colored, canned cherries (for decoration, not suitable for consumption) 0.10g/kg, for plum and shrimp (flavor) tablets The maximum use is 0.025g/kg; the maximum use of ice cream is 0.022g/kg; the maximum use for red and green silk is 0.10g/kg.
●Indigo
According to the provisions of China's "Sanitary Standards for the Use of Food Additives" (GB2760-1996): it can be used for pickled side dishes, the maximum use amount is 0.01mg/kg; it is used for high-sugar juice (flavor) or fruit juice (flavor) beverages, carbonated drinks, prepared wine, candy, confectionery, confectionery, colored on cakes, and canned cherries (for decoration, not suitable for consumption) The maximum use amount is 0.10g/kg, the maximum use amount for plum and its shrimp (flavor) tablets is 0.025g/kg; the maximum use for red and green silk is 0.20g/ kg
The above are the most common pigments, but also to see the use of pigments in food processing standards, people here will say that as long as it is within this standard, then we are not safe? But you're wrong, how many companies are actually using this standard? Merchants are often maximizing benefits, in order to make the food look more delicious and gratifying, the dosage of food coloring is also added according to the requirements of each merchant, as for how much, as a consumer can not know.
The former Soviet Union conducted long-term animal tests on the food color Amaranth red in 1968-1970, and found that the carcinogenic rate was as high as 22%. Researchers in the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries have also found that after doing relevant research, not only amaranth red, many other synthetic pigments also have harmful effects on the human body, which may lead to fertility decline, terativity, etc. Some pigments may be converted into carcinogens in the human body. Researchers say that synthetic pigments are made from coal tar, commonly known as coal tar or aniline pigments, which are harmful to the human body. Hazards include general toxicity, laxativeness, suddenness (genetic mutations) and carcinogenic effects.
In addition to being toxic in themselves or their metabolites, many food synthetic colors may be mixed with arsenic and lead during production. Cream yellow, which used to be used to color margarine in the past, has long been shown to cause liver cancer in humans and animals, while other types of synthetic pigments such as orange yellow can cause subcutaneous sarcoma, liver cancer, bowel cancer and malignant lymphoma.
Scientists have long discovered that long-term intake of artificial additives often used in the production of candy and soft drinks can lead to behavioral disorders such as ADHD. The UK Food Standards Authority (FSA) allocated £750,000 to researchers at the University of Southampton to conduct further research on the results, which showed that 6 artificial pigments, including the well-known lemon yellow and sunset yellow, affect children's intelligence and, in severe cases, can cause children's IQ values to drop by 5.5 points. Researchers are also conducting further research on the hazards of another additive, sodium benzoate.
Not appalling, but a real hazard all around us, and the more colorful processed foods, the more careful we have to be
Pigments exist in the corners of our lives, and every day when we wake up, we are fighting with pigments, using cosmetics, clothes to wear, food to eat, and drinks to drink, without exception, more or less using chemical synthetic pigments.
In the case of not being able to refuse the pigment, how to minimize the damage, first of all, when choosing processed foods, you must look at the ingredient list, especially for children's food, if you do not know the expression of English pigments, you can refer to the following:
· Red No.40 (Allura Red), commonly used in real, gelatin, candy, baked goods, etc.
· Yellow No.5 (Tartrazine), commonly used in soda, mustard, gum, baked goods, gelatin, etc.
· Yellow No.6(Sunset Yellow), 常用于cereal,beverages, hot chocolate mix, baked goods等。
· Red No.3 (Erythrosine B), 常用于candy, popsicles, cake decoration and other baked goods等。
· Blue No.1(Brilliant Blue), 常用于ice cream, canned peas, candy , drinks , dessert powder等。
· Blue No.2 (Indigotine, Indigo Carmine), commonly used in beverages, candy, etc
· Green No. 3 (Fast Green FCF), less common, for vegetables, fish, desserts, cotton candy, etc.
· Orange B, 限用于hot dog and sausage casings。
Don't blindly advocate foreign things, be sure to look carefully before buying to see if it is really healthy, chemical pigments are everywhere, and there are no borders.
However, with the development of science and technology, the discovery of natural pigments, will bring great changes to our future lives, it is reported that the research and development team led by Professor Zhan Jixun of Utah State University in the United States used E. coli to synthesize natural blue pigment dyes, which have been tested in laboratories and can be used in textile, food, chemical and other industries.
In the performance of the textile industry, the pigment adhesion is strong, not easy to fade, even if washed with water does not fade, the study found that it also has antioxidant, antibacterial health effects, just imagine, the clothes we wear in the future are such health characteristics of the cloth, is not the skin are better.
Used in the food industry, the antibacterial effect of the pigment can be used to replace preservatives, which is to truly achieve pure natural additive-free.
At present, the achievement has been patented, and after experiments have found that it can be mass-produced, in the future, the results will help more textile, pharmaceutical, food, chemical and other industries to move towards the road of economic and environmentally friendly green development.