Nutritional enhancers are designed to supplement the nutritional deficiencies of foods and improve the nutrient composition and nutrient ratio in food to meet people's nutritional needs. In recent years, the national standards for food nutrition enhancers have been continuously supplemented and improved to further protect public nutrition and promote citizens' health.
In food processing, not every product needs to be strengthened and needs to be targeted when used. In recent years, food safety problems caused by the abuse of food additives are not uncommon, and production enterprises need to strengthen management and produce within the scope of national standards to ensure that the food additives used are safe and compliant.
01 Nutrition enhancer regulations
Recently, the National Health Commission and the State Administration of Market Regulation jointly issued Announcement No. 7 of 2020, issuing 42 new national food safety standards, including 10 food nutrition enhancer quality specification standards such as "Food Safety National Standard Food Nutrition Enhancer Inositol (Cyclohexhexanol)" (GB 1903.42-2020).
"Food Safety National Standard Food Nutrition Enhancer Inositol (Cyclohexaxaol)" (GB 1903.42-2020) and other 10 food nutrition enhancer quality specification standards, respectively, the scope of food additives, sensory requirements, physical and chemical indicators, and the corresponding test methods have been specified and introduced in detail. Among them, inositol is suitable for food nutrient fortification agent inositol generated by hydrolysis of plant calcium magnesium (phytin).
According to the relevant physical and chemical indicators, the inositol content was 97.0~101.0 w/%, chloride ≤0.005 w/%, lead (Pb) ≤4 mg/kg, sulfate ≤ 0.006 w/%, drying and reducing ≤0. 5 w /%, melting point of 224 ~ 227 °C, burning residue ≤ 0.1 w / %, the specified drying temperature is 105 ° C, drying time is 4h, etc.
In the test method, the inositol content, calcium, high performance liquid chromatography, chloride, sulfate, burning residue and other items of the test are specified in detail. In the identification test, the reagents and materials, instruments and equipment, identification methods involving acidity and alkalinity, optical rotation, solubility, potassium acetate identification test, hexaacetylinositol residue melting point or liquid chromatography identification were introduced.
The main purpose of the use standards of nutritional enhancers is to strengthen nutrition, balance diets, and diversify diets, make up for the nutritional losses caused by food storage, and cover a large range of people. As a mandatory national basic standard, regulate and scientifically guide food fortification behavior to avoid the resulting nutritional imbalance or excessive nutritional elements.
02 The effect of inositol can not be underestimated
Inositol is a water-soluble vitamin, is one of the vitamin B family, inositol and choline is the same as the fat-loving vitamin, also known as cyclohexanol, can promote cell metabolism, growth and development, increase appetite, promote healthy hair growth, prevent hair loss, prevent eczema and sedative effects, help redistribution in the body and so on.
Inositol is widely found in food, as well as in animals and plants, and is similar in structure to glucose, which is a growth factor for animals and microorganisms. Pure inositol is a stable white crystal, soluble in water and sweet, resistant to acid, alkali and heat. In animal cells, it occurs mainly in the form of phospholipids, sometimes becoming inositol phospholipids. In grains, it is often combined with phosphoric acid to form hexaphosphate, that is, phytic acid, and phytic acid can be combined with calcium, iron, and zinc to form insoluble compounds, interfering with the body's absorption of these compounds, but inositol in soybeans is in a free state.
Inositol and the baby's growth and development and metabolism have a close relationship, but also many milk powder have added nutrients, the inositol added to the milk powder can make the baby's development process more healthy, help improve the baby's physical fitness, but also effectively increase the baby's appetite, to avoid malnutrition in the baby, and a certain role in helping sleep. Once the infant lacks inositol, it will also lead to eczema, hair whitening and other phenomena, so it is necessary to add inositol to infant milk powder.
At present, most milk powders on the market contain inositol, such as: Bubs, Keruikang, Bellamy, Dora Lamb, Jiabei Aite Yuebai, Royal Mei su Jia'er, Mead Johnson Lan Zhen, Hopson Beta Star, JunleBao Tianshi, Mead Johnson Platinum Full Leap, Junle Baole Platinum, Flying Crane Star Flying Sail, Aita Mexicoxo, Wyeth Qifu, etc. In addition to inositol, nutrients such as nucleotides, choline, taurine, L-carnitine, DHA, ARA, lactoferrin, and prebiotics are added.
Our country stipulates that infant milk powder must add protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals five major nutrients. Inositol in infant formula is optional to add, according to the national standard, infant formula in the addition of inositol should be between 1.0-9.5mg / 100kJ, as long as the amount of addition within the scope of the national standard, are safe.
03 Related food safety cases
Food additives are often used in modern food processing, but the amount of its addition to the country has clear regulations, the so-called too much, even the best things should be set in a good amount, there have been too many domestic food safety problems caused by excessive use of food additives.
It is reported that from May 11 to 13, 2016, the State Food and Drug Administration conducted a food safety production specification system inspection of Wyeth Nutrition (China) Co., Ltd., and no unqualified infant formula milk powder was found in the sampling process, but it had defects in the control of production license conditions, the implementation of food safety management system, and the inspection capacity, involving insufficient inositol testing capacity, which did not meet the relevant requirements of inspection capacity in article 10.1 of GB 23790-2010.
According to the state food and drug administration, in November 2017, the inspection of the food safety standard system of Xinjiang Ximu Dairy Co., Ltd. showed that there were 12 major food safety production management defects in the series of infant milk powders such as Xiyue, Yinaibao and Mingxing in Western Animal Husbandry, especially the yue infant milk powder was added with nutritional enhancers DHA and ARA that exceeded the shelf life, and Ximu Dairy was forced to stop production and transform.
According to the official website of the Zhejiang Entry-Exit Quarantine Bureau, on February 6, 2018, the inspection and quarantine personnel of the Lishui Bureau destroyed a batch of Doleku beverages imported from Spain for the first time, and the reason was that the batch of beverages was found to have added riboflavin, inositol and caffeine in violation of the inspection, according to relevant regulations, such food additives are not allowed to be added to carbonated beverages, and the Lishui Bureau effectively prevented the batch of unqualified goods from flowing into the consumer market.
At present, food safety issues have become a hot issue of concern, and any nutrient needs to be added and used reasonably to play its greatest role. And the quality of a food needs to be judged from all aspects, to ensure the quality of product production, to ensure nutritional balance, etc., which is the most important thing for consumers.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">
Xiang Piaopiao "old"!
</h1>
Weiwei shares, it is difficult to "open"!
Under the high level of holdings of controlling shareholders, is Qianhe Flavor Industry still worth looking forward to?
Zuming soy products annual revenue of 900 million, for full production still want to expand production