Does fruit really beat cyclamate?

Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to food safety, and fruits are no exception, always worried about whether the fruits they buy have cyclamate or soaked fresh water.

Cyclamate, whose chemical name is sodium cyclohexylsulfamate, is an additive commonly used in food production. Its sweetness is 30 to 40 times that of sucrose. In fact, in the process of fruit growth or on the surface of the fruit to play cyclamate, will not have any impact on the sweetness of the fruit. Even if cyclamate is sprayed on the surface of the fruit, the cyclamate will not enter the inside of the fruit, and there is no possibility of increasing sweetness. If the vendor wants to sweeten by injection, it is necessary to inject the fruit in all directions, which will destroy the cell wall of the fruit and accelerate the rot of the fruit. Therefore, for traders, injecting cyclamate into the fruit is harmful and unproductive.

But in addition to the real cyclamate, there is also something called arsenic, which is what most people call "cyclamate". Arsenic salts are toxic and can be used with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, leaf litters, etc. Its spraying on the leaves of fruit trees is to reduce the activity of CS enzymes to achieve the purpose of "lowering acid", to improve the glyco-acid ratio. It does not really increase the sugar content of the fruit, but it can reduce the acidity in the fruit. As soon as you eat it you can feel that the fruit is not sour. Although plants have certain needs for mineral nutrition, heavy metals exceeding the standard will lead to citrus poisoning, followed by various yellowing syndromes, and finally the tree momentum is seriously reduced, and even the tree body slowly dies. Therefore, the average farmer will not take the initiative to spray this pesticide on the tree. However, some bad fruit buyers in order to put the fruit on the market earlier, they will sign a purchase contract with the farmer when the fruit is not ripe, they will ask and provide this pesticide, and require several sprays in the fruit growth process to achieve the purpose of picking and listing in advance.

Arsenic is a toxic substance that also remains on fruits and trees. When people eat this fruit there is definitely an impact. So how do we tell? First of all, we have to eat the fruits of the season, not the first to eat the market. Their aim is to get high prices in the early market. From the appearance of the fruit, there is not much difference, the fruit with this pesticide is not sour to eat, but it is not very sweet, because the fruit is not ripe enough, and the sugar is not very high. It feels faint to eat.

Just like our Gannan navel orange, the government guides the picking date, the main purpose is to prevent bad traders from doing these things, and the navel orange that reaches the picking date naturally reaches enough time to grow, so there is no need to reduce acid. Therefore, do not eat the fruits that are listed in the morning, you will not eat fruits with "cyclamate".