Friends told me, since you are engaged in food-related industries, why don't you popularize the knowledge of food additives on the headlines? Speaking of shame, one is that I think I only know the fur, there are many professional gods on the headlines, and there are enough popular science, there is no need for me to nag here. Second, at present, the state's supervision of food is unprecedented, and it can be written on the packaging, which is allowed to be added. Of course, some things eat too much, and there is indeed obvious harm to the body. Needless to say here, everyone basically understands. Everything has a process of quantitative change to qualitative change, and it cannot be said that it will be absolutely what will happen after eating. As an ordinary consumer, but also as a food-related practitioner, I will simply tell you how to choose food and try to ensure that the ingredients eaten are relatively healthy.
1. Preservatives
Preservatives are inevitable in the modern food industry. Without this stuff, a lot of things can't be preserved, especially prefabricated meats. Common preservatives are sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, sodium dehydroacetate, streptococcin lactate and so on.
With benzene, basically everyone can choose to avoid it without brains, and some big-name carbonated drinks in China have it. However, sodium benzoate is prohibited in the country of origin of these big brand carbonated drinks, Japan, the European Union and other developed regions. Some time ago, consumers in some countries in Eastern Europe were protesting that the ingredients of a cola in East and Western Europe were different. Just some time ago, we were scolding Menglong products at home for not being the same as foreign formulas. Meat pre-products and sausage products basically have sodium benzoate.
Potassium sorbate is a little better than sodium benzoate, but not much better. There was a time when potassium sorbate was thought to be safe, non-toxic and side-effect-free. But studies in recent years have shown that it is related to the formation of certain muscle tumors. And if the excessive intake is excessive, the burden on the liver and kidneys is very heavy. Excessive intake depends on how much food containing such preservatives is usually consumed, and whether the manufacturer has violated the law by overdosing. Sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate are commonly found in a variety of beverages, alcohol, and sausage products. It can be said that most beverage products will add potassium sorbate. There are also some drinks that add both sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate, especially apple cider vinegar drinks. When I was still in the company before, I joked with my colleagues that if I went down with such a bottle of drink and drank it for a while, I could be as "immortal" as the Egyptian pharaoh.
Sodium dehydroacetate is commonly found in confectionery products. Similarly, over the past 20 years, people have thought it was very safe. However, this year's national standard food additive safety use standard deletes the use of dehydroacetic acid and its sodium salt in butter and concentrated butter, starch products, bread, pastries, baked goods fillings and surface hanging pulp, prefabricated meat products, cooked meat products, fruit and vegetable juice (pulp), and adjusts its maximum use in pickled vegetables.
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The reason is simple. There is new evidence that sodium dehydroacetate is not so safe. There is growing evidence that long-term consumption of products containing sodium dehydroacetate can lead to varying degrees of liver, kidney and central nervous system damage. European (League) and American countries have almost no longer used this additive. And with the change of consumption structure, more and more people are eating pre-made food. Because with the progress of urbanization, more and more people are pouring into the city. The city's work is seriously involved, especially single people who come home from work and don't want to cook at all. Some people just use these pre-made foods to send dinner. With this change in the structure of consumption, the state naturally has to consider whether this preservative will be consumed in excess. Because consumers do not understand, and law-abiding manufacturers in order to make food have a longer shelf life, they will naturally use preservatives as much as possible without violating the national standard, so as to obtain a longer sales time. Illegal manufacturers or small workshops need not be talked about.
Streptococcin lactate
There is currently no security problem with this thing, but it is not clear whether there will be new discoveries in more than a decade. At present, there are not many manufacturers producing this thing, and thieves are expensive. I've only seen it in high-end drinks or yogurt so far.
Second, sweeteners
Man is a sugar-loving animal, and this does not distinguish between human races. Before the epidemic, I basically had to go on a beautiful business trip every year. One night I picked out a loaf of bread at a convenience store next to the hotel lobby for a late-night snack. As a result, I took a bite and gave me a bite. Dead sweet dead sweet. No wonder there are so many meat mountains on American roads. The chocolate from the Middle East brought back by colleagues at the Shanghai Food Exhibition is also unnecessary. According to my personal experience, Chinese in the matter of eating desserts, compared to European and American Middle Eastern countries, it is very restrained. Personally, when I buy something, if it contains sweeteners, I usually only buy white sugar or erythritol (thief expensive). Others, such as those containing acesulfame potassium, sucralose, aspartame, neosweet, and fructose syrup, I basically do not buy. Of particular mention is fructose syrup. Most of these things in China are made by grinding corn on the cob into powder. Cassava is also made abroad. There are many milk tea shops in the streets and alleys of China, and if the milk tea in the hand is not higher than 20 yuan / cup, it is basically drinking fructose syrup. This thing especially affects people's metabolism and has a great impact on the kidneys. If it is a gout patient, in the absence of drug control, basically a cup of this milk tea will go down, and gout will have to attack. Why this is possible, because fructose syrup will compete with uric acid for excretion channels, and it is better than uric acid to be excreted first. The human body produces uric acid all the time every day, 80% of which is endogenous, that is, the body itself will continue to produce this uric acid. The remaining 20% comes from food. Therefore, it is basically difficult to lower uric acid by relying solely on diet control. While the kidneys are excreting fructose syrup, uric acid is lined up in the back. As the queue time increases, the uric acid in the body of gout patients becomes higher and higher, which triggers gout attacks. Gout patients are not unable to drink milk tea, but they have to drink real milk tea. The real high-end milk tea must be made of pure milk or fresh milk, rather than a sugar water drink mixed with various flavored syrups. It's not that I'm going to discredit the milk tea industry, because I'm a gout sufferer myself. I had gout at the age of 30, and the above is based on my own experiments. I now control it every day by a piece of non-bust. Therefore, it is better for boys to drink less cheap milk tea. The first cup of milk tea in autumn, try to buy a little better. Give your girlfriend even more to buy good ones.
3. Grilling and frying
Fried chicken beer is old, skewers are the truth, and then a bottle of cold beer, that is a refreshing summer. In fact, this issue really does not want to talk about, and it is also a cliché. Because if you don't eat, you won't eat, and you can't stop what you want to eat. The scorched aroma that drifted after Maillard's reaction was overwhelming to most people. All kinds of food bloggers and food forums have also put all kinds of tricks through. Doctors in various departments have also popularized the harm of this thing in various channels. My personal attitude is that I can eat without eating. At the same time, I was not allowed to eat by my family, which of course was unanimously opposed by my family, led by my wife. Sometimes I can't help them, so I go to eat with them. Remove the blackened and charred areas when eating. Fried things such as fried chicken, peel off the outer layer of skin, the meat inside is still very fragrant. My family said that my life was boring and uninteresting. I said it was indeed a lack of fun. After all, the animals in the pigsty are not picky eaters. Nature was blinded...
4. Instant noodles
Just look at the chairman of Nissin for this question. Not to say that he eats every day, it is also a regular eating. As a food worker, every time I hear that instant noodles are junk food, I can only silently hehe in my heart. To be honest, the oil used for instant noodles is more than one grade better than the oil quality of food cooked by many families themselves. The ingredient list of instant noodles is indeed densely packed with various additives and flavorings. But this is just a variety, and the amount is not much that can be completely controlled by yourself. My personal habit is to soak the cake in boiling water and pour it out after 15 seconds. At this time, you will find a layer of oil floating on the water. Then according to my own habits, I usually put 1/3 pack of powder, 1/3 of the oil bag, and put all the vegetable packets together. The healthiest meal is to repeat the above steps at home, add tomatoes, eggs, two handfuls of greens, and cook for 10 minutes on low heat, full of color, aroma and nutrition.
5. Puffed food
This one is best not to touch. Anyway, Fat House likes it the most and carbonated drinks. A fountain of fullness and happiness. Even if you eat too much, people will waste it quickly. This stuff is also addictive. It's not that they're drugs, it's that the kind of crunching that invisibly stimulates people's sensory nerves and makes you miss this feeling all the time. Then you will always be happy and cool, completely unable to stop. Passing by the convenience store, I unconsciously went to the puffing area and then went to get a bottle of carbonated drink. It was another fulfilling day. Stunting, affecting the nervous system, and reducing the absorption capacity of the small intestine are all clear hazards of puffed foods. I've tried it myself, a 350 ml bottle of carbonated drink + a bag of potato chips + a bag of Mexican chicken nuggets at noon, and I won't be hungry until 10 a.m. the next day. If you have children at home, try not to let children touch this thing. When children don't eat, they are always tossing people.
Sixth, temporary food
My personal opinion is that as long as the food doesn't expire, it's okay to be bold and eat it. After all, supermarkets dare to sell, which proves that they can bear this risk. I've bought it occasionally because there aren't many advent foods that I like.
7. Biscuits, candy, chocolate
Biscuits, candies and chocolates, as snacks for all ages, occupy a large part of the FMCG field. But if you look closely at their ingredient list, you will find that there is a lot of catnip.
Biscuits: The main ingredient is flour. Sandwiches use a variety of flavors and pigments. For example, strawberry flavor, naturally it is impossible for you to really use strawberries to make, but strawberry flavor. As long as various colors, mainly sunset yellow, bright blue, amaranth red, lemon yellow and so on. The current national standards and industry opinions of these things are not too much. My personal opinion is that if you can touch it, don't touch it. At the discretion of the readers, I will not make more comments. After all, people's manufacturers are not illegal. My personal opinions are also only responsible for me and my family, not externally. In the case of oil, it is basically vegetable oil, palm oil and the like. If the process is passed and the hydrogenation reaction is well controlled, the trans fatty acid will be well controlled, and the problem is not big. Instead, please make up your own brain. Because plant-derived trans fatty acids cannot be excreted as soon as they are eaten into physical strength, they are not the same as animal-derived trans fatty acids. Trans fatty acids of animal origin, such as from cream (cattle), lard, etc., are very good for the human body. By the way, a certain fish brand vegetable oil advertisement more than a decade ago is overwhelming, disguised to make consumers think that vegetable oil is better than animal oil (remember that many people in the village ate lard at that time), which is a perfect embodiment of the power of capital. Of course, people don't say it explicitly, because they know it themselves. At that time, the Chinese market was not yet mature, listening to the wind was rain, and the outside was incense. The situation has slowly changed in recent years. People in the village, if possible, will go to fry lard to stir-fry vegetables. It is undeniable that lard is a scarce product and is not suitable for national promotion. At least the current technical conditions do not allow it. And the butter eaten by Western countries, note that it is not margarine, is much better than eating vegetable oil. Vegetable oil is not bad, depending on what kind of oil, how to make factors to judge. For example, cold-pressed olive oil and rapeseed oil are no problem. If there is a hydrogenation process, then keep an eye on it. How to tell if vegetable oil is hydrogenated? Basically all the vegetable oils used in the biscuits are.
Sodium metabisulfite: This is available in a considerable number of cookies. It is a kind of bleaching agent and preservative. I remember that in 2011, in the process of watching the processing of canned mushrooms at a factory in Zhangzhou, there were illegal manufacturers who used the product illegally. The blackened mushrooms become old and beautiful after soaking sodium metabisulfite. I had just graduated and couldn't do anything about it. Moreover, at that time, the mind was immature, thinking that this was a foreign trade list, and it was given to foreigners anyway, not Chinese to eat. The factory had been closed for several years. Therefore, if the biscuit contains sodium metabisulfite, I always take a detour. Again, the addition of this is in line with national laws and regulations and is not illegal. The detour is purely my personal act.
Candy: Mainly look at the ingredients of the sweetener, if it is white sugar, sucrose and the like, I can accept. If it's something else, I'll take a detour.
Chocolate: When you see cocoa butter, palm oil, vegetable oil, etc., all detours
VIII. Finally
Regarding food, these are my personal opinions. Our country's control over food safety is still very strict. Therefore, the majority of consumers can shop with peace of mind. As for food additives and preservatives, without them, our lives will indeed lack a lot of fun, and we will lack a lot of food. As for how to choose, it is entirely up to everyone. If you like this article, just give it a thumbs up and go again.
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