How much coagulant in food do you know?
Smart Grandpa Confused Grandma
Looking forward to the stars, hoping for the moon, and finally looking forward to the little grandson coming to visit the door!
Grandma Confused bought a large piece of fresh tofu today, ready to take out the housekeeping skills to make a table of tofu feast with full color and flavor, and the little grandson probed his little head and restlessly surrounded Grandma Confused to help "lay hands".
"Baby, this tofu is pure natural and pollution-free, handmade without additives, waiting for Grandma to show you a hand!" Confused Grandma said happily.
"Eh—old woman, that's not right!" Smart Grandpa's voice came through the door.
Smart Grandpa reminds
Tofu is soy milk in the combination of heat and coagulant, coagulated, commonly used coagulant in the past the main components of salt halogen (magnesium chloride or calcium chloride), gypsum (calcium sulfate) and so on. Modern industrial production of tofu uses gluconic acid-δ-lactone to solidify tofu, and the production is the lactone tofu that we are familiar with.
"Therefore, this brine is a kind of coagulant, and there are additives in the tofu!" Smart Grandpa said with a smile.
"Okay, I'm confused, you're smart..." Confused Grandma said without anger, and suddenly, Grandma had a flash of inspiration——
Coagulant is a substance added to stabilize the structure of food, solidify the form of processed food, reduce or eliminate its fluidity and do not deform the tissue structure, and increase solids. It can be divided into two types: inorganic coagulant and organic coagulant. It is mainly used for soy products production and fruit and vegetable deep processing, as well as the manufacture of gel food. In the summer, everyone loves to eat cool jelly pudding, which is loved by everyone because of its crystalline appearance, bright color, soft and smooth taste, sweet and moist, and all of them use coagulants.
Listening to it, the confused grandmother was stunned. "Oh, our little grandson usually loves to eat these things, you just said that coagulant is also a food additive, there will be no problem in eating it!"
"Don't panic, don't panic, and listen to my detailed explanation!" Smart Grandpa said triumphantly.
The food coagulants allowed to be used in China are calcium sulfate, calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, propylene glycol, disodium edta, stannous citrate disodium, gluconic acid -δ-lactone and so on. The specific dosage needs to be implemented in accordance with the provisions of GB 2760-2014.
"Therefore, the little grandson eats these things and has no impact on health, but it still has to be controlled, and occasionally eat to relieve hunger." Little grandson, come and go out with Grandpa, don't disturb your grandma to make food. ”
"Good! Grandma I went out to play".....
"I can show you up!" The confused grandmother laughed and scolded, and watched the grandfather and son come out of the kitchen.