Friend, you should have drunk a drink called Fanta, but did you know that Fanta for the Japanese market and Fanta for Chinese mainland have different recipes?
Let's first look at the Chinese mainland version of Fanta orange soda ingredient list:
The ingredients are water, fructose syrup, food additives, food flavors, artificial colors such as tartrazine and sunset yellow are used, and the preservative is sodium benzoate.
Let's take a look at the ingredient list of the Japanese version of Fanta Orange Soda:
Fructose glucose liquid sugar, orange juice, orange extract/carbonic acid, flavouring, acidulant, vitamin C, carotene colour, sweeteners (acesulfame potassium, sucralose).
Translated into Chinese:
The biggest difference between the two is that the Chinese version adds synthetic colors - sunset yellow and tartrazine, while the Japanese version adds natural pigments carotene pigments.
In the fifties and sixties of the last century, the artificial pigments used by human beings were mostly extracted from coal tar, so the artificial pigments also had a name called tar pigments. There are more than 100 varieties of synthetic pigments that are used most in countries around the world.
With the continuous development and progress of medicine, the harm of artificial colors to the human body has begun to appear. From 1968 to 1970, the former Soviet Union conducted long-term animal experiments on the pigment amaranth red, and found that the carcinogenic rate was as high as 22%. Researchers in the United States, Britain and other countries have also found that many other synthetic pigments may also cause diarrhea, decreased fertility, teratogenesis, etc., and some pigments may be converted into carcinogens in the human body.
In September 2009, the UK Food Safety Authority paid $750,000 to ask the University of Southampton to conduct further research, and the results showed that eating too many artificial colors can affect children's IQ, these six colors are called the Southampton Six Colors, including sunset yellow, lemon yellow and allura red. Therefore, the EU requires the inclusion of these six pigments, and it is necessary to state on the label that "this product may have adverse effects on children's attention and behavior." ”
In Europe, countries such as Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and France have long banned the use of azo pigments (carmine and tartrazine), and countries such as Norway have even banned the use of any chemically synthesized pigments altogether. The Danish government, on the other hand, simply bans the use of synthetic colors in basic foods.
As people become more aware of the dangers of synthetic colors, natural colors are becoming more and more important. Natural pigments are widely found in fruits, vegetables, and algae, and artificial colors are completely different in that natural pigments are not only non-toxic, but also have certain nutritional and pharmacological effects. At present, the replacement of artificial colors with natural colors has become an irreversible development trend in the food and cosmetics industries.
At present, 13 natural pigments are licensed in Europe, while 26 natural pigments are approved in the United States, and Japan is the country that uses the most natural pigments, with 97 (as of 1995), accounting for 90% of the market share. Japan is also one of the world's leading companies in the development and application of natural pigments, and as early as 1975, the use of natural pigments surpassed that of synthetic pigments.
There are more than 40 kinds of natural pigments allowed to be used in China, but the production cost of these natural pigments is too high to occupy the mainstream of the market in the short term without new regulatory restrictions.
It is necessary to note that tartrazine and sunset yellow are both artificial colors that are allowed to be legally added in China and Japan, so Fanta's favoritism is even more suspicious.
According to a Hong Kong media investigation, the French version of Fanta uses carotenoid pigments, the British version also uses natural pigments extracted from carrots and pumpkin, and the Taiwan and Hong Kong versions are the same as the mainland version, and the pigments used are sunset yellow and tartrazine.
As a well-known brand of Coca-Cola, Asia is also a major market for Fanta. The first spokesperson in Fanta's history was Stephen Chow, who was selected in 2007.
Therefore, it is too simplistic to understand Fanta's practice of watching people serve dishes as regional discrimination, after all, the American version of Fanta also adds artificial colors - sunset yellow and allure red.
Let's understand it as a profit-seeking instinct for merchants, if consumers in a place do not have such a strong sense of food safety, and they comply with local regulations, why should we do more.
✦Today's evaluation recommendation✦
Entering the wax moon, eating wax flavor is a Chinese custom, but according to the Hong Kong Consumer Council's comparative evaluation of 30 types of wax sausages on the market, the results found that 6 models illegally added pigment red 2G and rhodamine B, which shows that finding a healthy and reliable wax flavor is not so easy.
Today, we recommend the zero-added coloring sauce sausage produced by Guangzhou Eagle Money.
Eagle money trademark was registered in Hong Kong in 1911, in 1956 became one of the 156 key projects of cooperation between China and the former Soviet Union, in 1985 to obtain export qualifications, its products in the overseas Chinese market has a good reputation, and in 1989, 1991 won the national quality product gold medal for two consecutive times, in 2017 won the "China time-honored brand benchmarking enterprise".
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