Do you think that looking at the food ingredient list is like reading a book of heaven, and every time you read it, it is wrong or wrong.
For adult food, there is not much problem with mistakes, but for infant and toddler products, if mixed with bad substances, it may cause harm to children.
So when buying baby food, we usually choose zero to add, which seems safer. But if you can clearly distinguish the recipe written in the ingredients of the product, it will be much more handy.
Today, let's talk about the knowledge of baby food ingredient lists.
Everyone's living standards have generally been improved, so in terms of eating and wearing, parents also try to provide the best for their children.
But which food can be eaten and which food cannot be eaten?
Is zero added food the best?
Are there also many pitfalls in the foods we eat regularly?
With these questions, we analyze the food we often eat, in fact, the food additive we encounter the most is the seasoning.
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Nowadays, more and more parents already know the harm of salt and sugar to babies, so children under the age of 2 generally do not add additional salt and sugar.
Is it possible for children to add salt after the age of 2?
Yes, but not too much.
Some parents may say: I will use children's soy sauce instead!
However, although many children's soy sauces play a gimmick with zero additives, the sodium content will be greater.
Salt is safer than soy sauce, as long as you don't get too much of it.
Children around the age of 3 have a sodium intake of 700 mg, which is 1.8 g of table salt; children aged 4-6 years have a intake of 900 mg, which is equivalent to 2 g of table salt.
There is also a seasoning that we will ignore, that is, cooking wine and rice wine. In order to get rid of the fishy smell in the food, we often put some cooking wine, rice wine or beer.
These wines are only completely volatilized after boiling for 3 hours, while our usual cooking will remain 20%-75%. These volatile wines will be absorbed by the child's body, which will affect the child's intellectual development.
If you want to go fishy, it is recommended that mothers try lemons, which taste very good.
In addition, the spices that need to be brought to our attention are chicken essence and monosodium glutamate.
Some people say that eating too much MSG will cause cancer, so they will use chicken essence instead of seasoning. In fact, the basic ingredients of MONOS glutamate and chicken essence are sodium glutamate, but chicken essence is additionally added to chicken meat or chicken bone powder to increase umami. However, at temperatures above 120 degrees, sodium glutamate will become sodium pyroglutamate and will lose its umami taste.
The safe daily intake of glutamate for an adult is 30 mg per kilogram of body weight, which means that a 60 kg adult cannot exceed 1.8 grams per day, which is about one-third of the amount of beer bottle caps.
Adult intake will have an impact on the body, the child's intake is naturally lower, but these are purely some food additives, children's food as far as possible do not put. If you want to freshen up, you can put some chicken soup and mushrooms to reduce the use of these spices.
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In life, we can't leave food additives, so when we are inevitably exposed to some food additives, we must learn to distinguish which ones must be said no.
The one that should catch our attention the most is fructose syrup.
We all know that sugar is very unfriendly to the human body, and many mothers will also carry out anti-sugar therapy in order to beautify, all of which are avoiding excessive intake of sugar.
However, fructose syrup is a kind of fructose with cold and sweet properties, high solubility, and preservative properties. Therefore, fructose syrup has an unshakable position in food additives.
However, fructose syrup is liquid fructose, which will be more easily absorbed by the human body, while fructose is more easily absorbed by the human liver, and after a large amount of intake, it will increase the fat content of the liver, thereby forming fat G.
If you are not careful, you will consume too much, which is why many children now also have fatty liver disease, or sugar N disease.
In addition, fructose is also prone to gout.
When the human liver metabolizes fructose, it produces purine groups, and purine produces uric acid, which is the culprit of gout.
Since fructose syrup has a huge harm, what kind of food is it found in?
Milk tea, fruit juice, tomato sauce, instant cereal can be seen in the figure of fructose syrup. And among the Cokes we often drink, fructose syrup is definitely the protagonist.
Moms can look at the ingredient list on the food bags at home and see if there is fructose syrup hidden in it!
After talking about fructose syrup, there is also trans fatty acids.
Why our lives are rich in trans fats, because it has the effect of high temperature resistance, not easy to deteriorate, and at the same time can prolong the shelf life of food. Excessive consumption of trans fatty acids may cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Trans fatty acids can increase the crispy taste of food, so they are widely used in the raw materials of biscuits and pastries. For example, vegetable creams, margarine, shortening, salad dressings and cocoa butters are found.
When the child has a birthday, we will all prepare a birthday cake, this time be sure to ask the cake shop to use animal cream!
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After talking about inferior food additives, let's analyze the high-quality food additives.
Speaking of which, there must be some people who are very strange, are there any good food additives?
That is, of course, in fact, food additives are stigmatized, mainly those black-hearted merchants to make a ghost, today we will come to the high-quality food additives to justify the name.
For example, oleic acid /linoleic acid/linolenic acid added to milk powder are essential fatty acids recommended by the Chinese Nutrition Society. Unlike the trans fatty acids we see, these fatty acids act as emulsifiers and can make milk powder easily dissolved.
Guar gum/locust bean gum is rich in dietary fiber, which can relieve constipation and reduce spitting up. So don't be intimidated by the names of these additives, they are definitely good food additives.
In addition to these, there are some guys with long names, such as: ascorbyl palmitate, which is an antioxidant that can break down VC when dissolved in water, like phospholipids or a component of tissue cells, especially the human brain.
When we talk about food additives, let's not talk about tiger discoloration. Just remember the food additives we often see that are not good for the body, stay away from them, basically everyone is safe. Because within the scope of the state's permission, food additives are safe.
However, some foods are sold in the name of zero addition, but they are selling dog meat with sheep's heads. Parents still need to pay attention, take a look at the ingredient list, and know each other to survive the battle!