Now young parents generally have a strong sense of food safety, and most of them teach their children to eat less fritters, which will make the brain stupid.
In addition to fritters, what other foods affect the development of children's brains?
The common feature of this type of food is that it all adds alum and is easy to exceed the standard.
1. Alum
The substance that affects your child's brain is the aluminum element in fritters.
The aluminum in food mainly comes from potassium aluminum sulfate used in the food production process, potassium aluminum sulfate, also known as alum, is a compound salt containing potassium sulfate and aluminum sulfate containing crystalline water.
Commonly used as a coagulant in food production, it can make food more tendonous, such as used in vermicelli, vermicelli, noodles; combined with baking soda, it can produce a swelling effect, such as used in fritters and cakes.
After the aluminum is absorbed by the human body, only 10%-15% can be excreted, most of which will accumulate in the brain, kidneys and other tissues and organs, will not occur acute poisoning, will play a chronic injury effect.
Aluminum accumulation in brain tissue will inhibit a variety of enzyme activity, resulting in a decline in thinking ability, memory loss, will seriously affect children's intellectual development and bone growth.
In recent years, the state has strictly controlled the scope of use of alum as a food additive, and began to prohibit the use of wheat flour and its products (except fried flour products, batter, flour, and fried flour) in 2014.
However, it is still allowed to use fritters, vermicelli, jellyfish, etc. to continue to use alum. This is also taking into account the traditions of Chinese food culture.
Therefore, experts recommend paying attention to the amount of consumption.
Second, the international and domestic aluminum limit standards
China's current national food safety standard for food additives GB 2760-2014 stipulates that 6 types of food can also be used alum.
Including soy products, such as tofu, bean skin; batter, flour, fried powder, such as fried chicken surface flour; fried noodle products, such as fritters; shrimp flakes, such as various shrimp slices; baked foods, such as mooncakes, cakes; pickled aquatic products, only jellyfish.
The allowable limit of aluminum in the first five categories of products is 100mg/kg, and the allowable limit of aluminum in jellyfish is 500mg/kg.
GB 2760-2014 Standard for the use of food additives
The allowable limit of aluminum in the EU counterpart products is 10mg/kg, which is 10 times stricter than that of China, which is the strictest standard in the world, and has repeatedly returned or destroyed noodles and other products from China.
The European Food Safety Authority has assessed the weekly tolerable intake (TWI) of aluminium at 1 mg/kg×bw (body weight) after a health risk assessment.
Then according to EU standards, children weighing 25 kilograms should not eat shrimp slices, fritters and cakes per week for a total of more than 250 grams, which is easy for many children who like shrimp slices and desserts to overdo it.
Third, we must pay attention to high-alumina foods
Aluminum is obviously harmful to human health, so we should pay attention to the following 5 kinds of high-alumina foods when matching ingredients with children
5th place: Fried chicken wrapped in flour
Now the popular variety of fried chicken shop franchise chain, one or two people can run the franchise store, for a limited audience, often become a blind spot for regulatory sampling.
4th Place: Vermicelli
Vermicelli sampling unqualified publicity
After inquiry, since 2014, the number of noodles has been about 800, and the proportion of unqualified is about 6%, which is much higher than the overall unqualified rate of food in The country.
The unqualified results are mainly based on the aluminum content exceeding the standard, and some exceed the standard by 10 times.
3rd place Cake
Slightly better than the fried chicken shop, there is a more spacious operating environment and more operators, but the sampling results are not reassuring.
The aluminum content exceeds the standard by more than 5 times, which shows that many cake shops are chaotic in the use of additives.
The cake was seriously oversubscripted
2nd place Fritters
It is characterized by small workshop production and a small audience range. Fortunately, it has become the focus of public attention, so there is a certain number of sampling inspections.
Since 2014, a total of 1936 fritters have been sampled, and 376 are unqualified, with a non-conformity ratio of 19.4%, and the number of unqualified is quite high.
The reason for the non-conformity is also mainly that the aluminum content exceeds the standard, and some even exceed 10 times.
1st place Jellyfish
Cold jellyfish
At present, because of the pickled jellyfish have to use alum, and the national census found that the aluminum content of jellyfish is generally higher, the average value is 473.1mg/kg, so the limit standard of aluminum in jellyfish is also significantly higher than that of other foods.
Therefore, jellyfish are also not suitable for children to eat more.