[Food additives, are they really toxic?] 】
The phone slides down to find out!
As a mother, as long as you go home and see your daughter and son eating snacks, what gels, candy, the first reaction, is to grab the snacks with one hand, and then the child will cry.
Grandparents also had to persuade her from the side, saying: Don't make her cry, she will eat.
Mom thought to herself: These are many additives, unhealthy, and there is no nutrition when eaten.
For the sake of children's health, of course, it is very understandable, but almost every snack has flavors and other additives in it.
At this time, people want to ask,
Are these additives really unhealthy?
What does it do? What are the misunderstandings?
Question 1?
What happens without food additives?
What is life like without food additives? The result may not be as good as everyone thinks!
First of all, you can't eat the food sold in the store and made in the restaurant, because there are almost all food additives there.
For example: bread, biscuits have leavening agent; Chocolate and ice cream have emulsifiers; Ham intestines have color protectors and preservatives; Coke has coloring agents and sourness regulators; These are food additives.
In order to reject additives, we are far away from the modern food industry, and it is better to go home and cook our own meals
Question 2?
Cooking at home = staying away from additives?
If you think you can cook at home and stay away from food additives, you're even more wrong.
Preservatives in rice; anti-caking agents and preservatives in flour;
Oils are used to use decolorizing agents and antioxidants; There are anti-caking agents in the salt;
Preservatives are found in both soy sauce and vinegar; You need to use leavening agent for steamed buns...
Even if it's fruit, you can only eat locally produced fruits, because fruits shipped from abroad or out of season are made with preservatives and preservatives.
Without food additives, people can only eat white boiled vegetables, or go back to the era of eating wild fruits, but at that time, we are all the physical strength and stomach of ancient people.
It's completely different from now!
Question Three?
Food Additives = Unhealthy?
Are food additives really unhealthy?
For us, the more familiar food additives should be preservatives, basically all the snacks we have eaten and all the drinks we drink, have added preservatives. So why are people so scared? Because many of us, in fact, do not know what is a food additive.
Food additives are added to food to improve the color, aroma, taste and other qualities of food, as well as for the needs of preservative and processing technology.
At present, there are more than 2,000 kinds of food additives in China's food additive catalog, including natural food additives and artificial chemical synthetics.
The former is all-natural, such as amaranth red extracted from red amaranth.
Although the latter is industrially produced, it is the same as the former in chemical structure, such as vitamin C, vitamin E, etc., like soybean oil will add vitamin E, less rancidity, prolong shelf life.
How should we view food additives?
First, food additives can not be hidden, there is no need to hide.
Many food additives are not harmful if they are not overused, and some are also beneficial to the human body.
From a toxicological point of view, many food additives are toxic, and some are highly toxic. However, in food, it does not exceed the maximum amount of use, there is no harm to the human body, not only is there no harm, but some are still beneficial to the human body.
For example, most infant formula milk powder on the market, many ingredient lists have magnesium chloride, because magnesium is a necessary trace element of the human body, that is to say, many food additives, in addition to the function of food additives, some also have the function of improving human body function and antioxidants.
Second, the role of food additives
Food additives have greatly promoted the development of the food industry and are known as the soul of the modern food industry, which is mainly because it brings many benefits to the food industry, and its main roles are roughly as follows:
✎ Food additive effect
1 Prevent spoilage
2 Improve the sensory properties of food
3 Maintain or improve the nutritional value of food
4 Increase the variety and convenience of food
5 Favorable food processing
6 Meet other special needs
Third, the use of food additives is strictly in accordance with the regulations
【There are three regulations for food additives】
1 This variety must be allowed to be used in our country.
2 Must be used within the specified scope of use, not beyond the scope.
3 Can not exceed the maximum allowable amount of use, or some can not exceed its maximum residual amount.
Therefore, according to national regulations, strict implementation of the use of food additives, will not bring harm to health.
Moreover, it can also effectively maintain the taste of food and prevent food from spoiling.
Therefore, each of us should treat food additives objectively and fairly with a normal heart.
The edible flavor additive in the snack is really not without poison!
It is also possible to eat some snacks to relax, but not excessively!
Signed author Wu Xiaoying
Zhongshan Triangle Hospital, junior Western pharmacist, practicing Western pharmacist
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