Experts have long debunked the rumors! These "junk foods" have been wronged for many years, but in fact, they can be eaten boldly with confidence

Now that people's living conditions are better, they are paying more and more attention to health, and a lot of popular food has become junk food in people's mouths. ”

However, some of the junk food you think is not so scary, and some are even foods that have been certified by academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, but they have been wronged for many years.

These foods that have been wronged for many years, the official has already stood up to refute the rumors, so you don't have to eat them secretly in the future, see if there is a favorite in you?

01 Instant noodles

From the kitchens of many people's homes to the trains at long-distance stations, when the time is too rushed to cook, a bowl of hot instant noodles can always fill the stomach in the shortest time, with noodles and soup, and the taste is quacky.

Instant noodles are not only the life-sustaining artifact of countless workers, but also the food NO.1 in the hearts of almost every child, but I don't know when rumors about instant noodles began to spread.

Whenever a child wants to eat instant noodles, parents have to shout, "How can you eat this junk food?" ”

Regarding the rumors about instant noodles, there is a saying that there are a lot of preservatives in instant noodles, and eating them can cause cancer.

But you can just buy a pack of instant noodles and look at the ingredient list, basically no preservatives are added, because instant noodles have been fried and dehydrated or dried during the production process, and the water content is extremely low, and there is almost no need for preservatives. Isn't it redundant for manufacturers to spend money to add preservatives!

However, the starch in instant noodles does produce acrylamide, a suspected carcinogen, when heated at a high temperature of 120°C, but the content is very low.

Based on the calculation of an adult weighing 60 kilograms, it takes about 20 packs of 100 grams of instant noodles to achieve the minimum carcinogenic amount, let's say that you eat instant noodles three times a day, can you eat 20 bags?

There is also a theory that the slippery film in the instant noodle bucket is toxic, but in fact it is a food-grade polyethylene coating that meets national standards, and it is often used as food packaging in the food industry around the world.

In addition, the lowest melting point of this film is 112°C, and the moment the boiling water is poured out, it is less than 100°C, so the chemicals in the polyethylene coating do not enter the instant noodles and noodle soups.

And the academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering have said that instant noodles have carbohydrates and oils, and the protein may be a little less, but you can add some eggs and meat to supplement, and when cooking noodles, you can add a little cucumber or tomatoes, and vitamins are also available.

Therefore, eating instant noodles can also make up for the six major nutrients, there is no junk food for instant noodles, only garbage eating, as long as you can achieve nutritional matching, you don't have to hide from your parents anymore when eating instant noodles!

monosodium glutamate

In your kitchen, do you put MSG in stir-frying now?

I think that every household had to shake the MSG bottle twice to stir-fry the food, and the effect of freshness was very good, but in the eighties of the twentieth century, MSG was suddenly labeled as toxic and carcinogenic, which scared the people of the whole country as if they were hiding from the plague, but is MSG really so scary?

The main ingredient of monosodium glutamate is glutamic acid, Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda found glutamic acid in kelp in 1908, the taste is very delicious, so in 1909 the Japanese began to produce and eat monosodium glutamate.

In 1920, MSG was officially introduced to China, but the price was very expensive, it was a high-grade seasoning of Zheng'er Bajing, and the result was that the Chinese were too smart, and in 1921, Wu Yunchu, the father of Chinese MSG, successfully fermented MSG from wheat and extracted MSG, and subsequently applied for patents in the United States, Britain, France and other countries.

In 1983, Lotus monosodium glutamate was established, and the output was successfully achieved to the world's first, and the price of monosodium glutamate was completely lowered.

But somehow, the rumors of MSG being toxic, delicate cancer, and MSG hair loss suddenly spread all over the country, and the people quickly threw away MSG after hearing it, and state-owned enterprises were fatally hit.

Even if state-owned enterprises and scientific research workers try their best to refute the rumors and publish scientific research results to show that it is okay to eat 50-200 grams of monosodium glutamate a day, but for some reason the scientific conclusion is that the rumors cannot be defeated, and foreign chicken essence quickly occupies the Chinese market.

In the final analysis, consumers at that time would not look at the ingredient list, if they would look at the ingredient list, they would find that about 40% of the chicken essence ingredients of foreign companies are monosodium glutamate, and the statement that chicken essence can be eaten but monosodium glutamate cannot be eaten is really wrongful.

There is also a saying that after monosodium glutamate is heated, it will turn into toxic sodium pyroglutamate, which is harmful to the human body, and must not be put in stir-frying.

However, the research released by China Food Network shows that monosodium glutamate is mainly extracted from natural grains, rather than chemically synthesized, and even if it is heated to more than 120 °C, it is harmless to the human body to become sodium pyroglutamate.

It's just that at this time, MSG becomes colorless and tasteless, and it is recommended that you put MSG at the end of the stir-fry, so as to ensure the flavor of MSG.

Starch sausage

In the past, if you want to say which Internet celebrity food on the street is popular, there must be many people who have to vote for starch sausages, and the fried starch sausages are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and they are fragrant and confused in one bite.

But since the incident of bone mud starch sausage was exposed, the entire starch sausage industry has suffered a heavy blow from vendors to manufacturers. In the video that went viral, a forklift master shovels piles of chicken bones on the ground into a machine and mashed them.

It is said that these filthy and filthy bone mud are the raw materials of starch sausages that everyone buys on the street, and many people are directly disgusted with their appetite after seeing it, and they no longer want to eat starch sausages, but is this really the case?

In the course of the investigation, the staff of China Food News and Financial Media found that many of the source manufacturers of such videos are not making starch sausages, and some of these chicken bone purees have been used as pharmaceutical raw materials, and some have been made into water-soluble fertilizers.

In addition, many starch sausage manufacturers have also issued official statements clarifying that chicken bone puree is not used in the production process, and individual manufacturers have problems that have caused the entire industry to be impacted, which can be said to be too lethal.

Therefore, not all starch sausage manufacturers have problems, which has a lot to do with the qualifications of the enterprise, and the starch sausage produced by regular manufacturers can still be eaten boldly with confidence.

What do you think about this?

Information sources:

Douyin @ China Food News Financial Media "Behind the anxiety of "bone mud starch sausage", what information should we clarify? 》2024-03-19

Douyin @食安中国 "Smash the rumors! Heard that eating instant noodles can cause cancer? 》2020-11-06

Douyin @CCTV "Is instant noodles really junk food? 》2024-01-17

Douyin @CCTV anchor said that the three farmers "the most unjust seasoning! What exactly has MSG experienced? Speak clearly in 3 minutes! 》2025-03-29