With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, most people from all walks of life will order some mooncakes to give gifts to employees and customers.
No, I know that the big V that has provided quality content for a long time has mailed mooncakes. But what I didn't expect was that this gift to express my heart was on the hot search because of #Knowing mooncakes eating diarrhea#.
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Suddenly, many zhihu big V became "jet warriors", and were also ridiculed by netizens, and truly became a "laxative (thank you)" culture.
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Back to the main topic, why do you know why mooncakes cause diarrhea?
Speaking of why, it is not the first food hygiene problem that will jump out of the mind, but the most popular concept of "low sugar" and "reduced sugar".
The last big V KellyWeaver with 263457 followers gave his opinion:
(Source: Zhihu)
After causing public opinion, Zhihu also quickly made feedback:
From the apology letter issued, we can see that this is an incident caused by the improper addition of sugar alcohol content in the recipe of low-sugar mooncakes.
I have seen the Internet circulating in the Zhihu mooncake ingredient list, 3 flavors of the mooncake, are added to maltitol, and in the ingredients are very high, I think the content will not be less, in addition to see erythritol, sorbitol.
These are all sugar alcohol sweeteners.
In addition, after seeing the hot search, I also consulted the senior coffee in the industry shi jian Meng for the first time, he also believes that the problem of this mooncake is that the amount added is too much when using maltitol to replace sucrose. Since the replacement is the sucrose in the Cantonese sugar skin mooncake, the amount of formula can easily be too large when designed.
Previously, some mooncake manufacturers also had diarrhea after overdose in sugar-free low-sugar mooncakes.
It can be seen that even if the food marked "low sugar" and "no sugar" is marked, it is not allowed to eat and drink wantonly. Eating more than a certain amount, due to the indigestible nature of the sugar alcohol itself, it will easily cause diarrhea.
Teacher Shi Jianmeng also said:
"Maltitol is actually relatively safe, but because it is not easy to decompose and absorb, eating a large amount of it will lead to diarrhea."
However, for the grasp of quantity, there is no clear provision in the current national standard.
Although the original purpose of Zhihu was to use the advantages of maltitol as a food additive, as well as some health concepts, to give back to high-quality users, but ignoring the high amount of maltitol will have hidden dangers, resulting in some people intolerance.
In addition, things must be reversed, and nutrition is very particular about this concept. What good things, eaten in large quantities, are prone to counterproductive effects. Maltitol is not a bad thing, but a good thing, but also a moderate amount. ”
Nowadays, under the trend of healthy diet, the concept of sugar reduction and sugar control has been recognized by more and more consumers.
People are clearly aware that consuming too much sugar can lead to a series of metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. To this end, sugar alcohol relies on the expressiveness of low calorific value and quickly becomes the mainstream choice for merchants when developing products.
The market advertises "0 sugar 0 calorie", "low sugar low calorie" containing sugar food penetration rate is very high, can enjoy the pleasure brought by sweetness, but also will not bring too much burden to the body, this is not the ideal choice?
But the fact is that not all sugar alcohols do not have calories (erythritol can be regarded as zero calorific value), but it may not be so high compared to sucrose, and although the awareness of safety is relatively high, the publicity is also low sweetness, low calorie, nutritional type, high safety, good taste, does not cause caries, does not affect blood sugar values and other characteristics. (Promotional slogan source Baidu Encyclopedia)
However, if you simply think that the food with sugar alcohol is healthy, safe, delicious and not fat, you want to eat it uncontrollably, but it will have an impact on the body.
This time the Zhihu mooncake also sounded the alarm bell for us!
In her analysis post, she mention 275149 ed the intake of sugar alcohol using the Laws of Australia and New Zealand as a reference standard.
We can clearly see that there are not only many varieties of sugar alcohols, but also have a difference in high and low tolerance, and the addition of more maltitol is a low tolerance, which also causes a situation that is more likely to cause diarrhea.
In addition, I believe that although there are no clear regulations in domestic food, manufacturers should also consciously recommend the amount of consumption on the packaging to remind consumers.
I saw that in the Swiss Rico Licole sugar-free mints, it claimed to use sugar substitutes to provide sweetness, which was clearly marked on the side of the package: excessive consumption can easily cause mild diarrhea.
(Source: Taobao)
In the future, I believe that the market competition of sugar substitute food will still be very fierce, and the trend of sugar reduction and sugar control will become more and more significant, but on top of this popular outlet, we should play an active role in sugar substitutes, enhance technological innovation, and provide more safety solutions.
On the other hand, this Zhihu mooncake storm may also create new opportunities and challenges for the sugar substitute industry.
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