Recently, a small video was secretly filmed on the Internet: a "grower" talked about the secret of how to make citrus sweet. It is mentioned that to fight "cyclamate", and many fruits need to be beaten, including watermelon, orange, grapefruit, orange, etc., human cancer blames it...
Fruit hits cyclamate to sweeten, will this be true?
Too long to look:
Cyclamate is a legal food additive, but should not be used in fresh fruits.
It is basically impossible to "play cyclamate" to the fruit in the planting process.
What growers call "cyclamate" may actually be just foliar fertilizer sprayed on plants.
It is possible for hawkers to sweeten fruits such as bayberry and mulberry with saccharin, and it is recommended to buy less at roadside vendors.
What exactly is cyclamate
The scientific name of cyclamate is "cyclohexylsulfamic acid", which is a synthetic sweetener. It is allowed to be used in China, the European Union, Hong Kong and other countries and regions, but it is not allowed in the United States, Japan and other countries.
The body cannot absorb cyclamate, and even if it is absorbed, it cannot be metabolized, and eventually it will be excreted intact, so the safety is very high. As a sweetener, it is widely used in beverages, canned food, pastries and other foods, but fresh fruits are not allowed to be used.
Is it feasible to beat cyclamate in fruit?
Fruit "spraying" usually has two understandings, one is spraying, the other is injection.
Rumors of sweetening fruit injections have been circulating online for several years, but this is not actually feasible. On the one hand, the needle eye left by the injection will become a channel for bacteria and mold to invade, and the fruit is easy to rot; on the other hand, the needle cannot ensure the even distribution of cyclamate in the fruit, and it will affect the taste if it is not good. Especially for solid fruits like watermelon, it is really not easy to inject the potion (in 2012, the rumor crusher conducted experiments on the rumor of "watermelon injection", and the results also showed that the effect of injecting watermelon was actually quite bad).
Even if you give a hard injection to the watermelon, the injection is difficult to spread evenly in the melon.
Image from: Watermelon injection experiment: Needles are not so easy
What about spraying? It also seems unlikely. Cyclamate is water-soluble and almost insoluble in organic solvents, which makes it difficult to penetrate the waxy layer of the fruit's epidermis. More importantly, even if the spray on the surface can absorb, how to ensure that the fruit of a tree is absorbed evenly? In particular, fruits with thick skins, such as grapefruit and oranges, are absorbed from the epidermis and transferred to the pulp, which is not as simple as you think. If you don't believe it, you can try chewing on the peel to see if it is also sweet, and you are guaranteed to be disappointed.
"Sweeteners" are not cyclamates
In fact, what growers call "cyclamate" is most likely not one of the food additives.
In the folk, XX element, XX essence is a popular name, refers to efficient, powerful, fast-acting things. The "cyclamate" that will be used in agriculture to sweeten the fruit is actually a sweetener, which belongs to the plant growth regulator and is also a surface sprayed foliar fertilizer. It is the first technology developed by developed countries in Europe and the United States, and has been used in agriculture for decades.
The "sweetener" used in agriculture does not refer to sweeteners.
There are many commercial products in this category, but the ingredients vary. Common ones include polysaccharides or glycans, trace elements such as boron, molybdenum, zinc, manganese, rare earth elements (also commonly used in foliar fertilizers of tea), sodium thiosulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfite, sodium sulfite, etc. These things themselves are not sweet, they are basically by promoting plant metabolism and the synthesis and accumulation of nutrients, to achieve the purpose of increasing fruit yield, shortening the ripening cycle and improving appearance quality.
Fruit getting sweeter?
It's the result of breeding!
Many fruits do taste sweeter now than they used to, but that doesn't mean they've been sweetened. People love sweetness so much that fruit breeding continues to evolve in a bigger, sweeter direction. Through the selection and breeding of generations of agricultural scientists, the fruits have become sweeter and sweeter, and even corn and potatoes have cultivated sweet varieties. If the fruit does not have a sour taste, it is said that there is a problem with people, and the agricultural science and technology personnel will really cry.
Agricultural technicians continue to cultivate larger, sweeter fruit varieties, which is the main reason why fruits become sweeter.
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Saccharin soaked fruit
It does exist
The possibility of using sweeteners (such as saccharin and cyclamate) in the planting process is almost non-existent, but it is still possible in the middle circulation and sales link, such as the famous "saccharin jujube".
Unfortunately, saccharin bubble dates are not used for eggs, this is just a trick for traders. Saccharin is difficult to penetrate the dense peel of dates, so it can only make the outer layer sweet (dates turn red not because of saccharin, but because of warm water).
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Similarly, some vendors will spray saccharin water on fruits such as bayberry and mulberry to sweeten it, which is also a blindfold. If you taste it on the spot, it may be sweeter, take it home and wash it with water, and the saccharin will be gone. Therefore, it is recommended that everyone buy less at the roadside circulation vendors, although eating a little saccharin is not a big problem, but the feeling of being deceived is not good.
Finally, what I want to tell you is that don't think that the "breaking news video" that was secretly filmed is the truth. Even if they are really growers, and their heads are black, they may not know why they are.
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