Milk tea is a favorite drink for many people. Recently, the Shenzhen Food and Drug Administration detected two "milk foam Thai flavored milk tea" and "Thai bubble milk tea" in a net red shop with the addition of prohibited substances - sunset yellow. When a large number of media reports said that milk tea added harmful pigments, consumption can lead to chronic poisoning. This worries people who like milk tea.
What is Sunset Yellow? Can I still drink milk tea?
<h1>What is Sunset Yellow? </h1>
Sunset yellow, also known as sunset yellow, edible yellow No. 3, is an artificial synthesis of azo pigments. In the food industry, sunset yellow is a commonly used food additive.
Any kind of food additive, its use has strict regulations, must meet national standards. Two of these points are the most basic: comply with the scope of use and dosage limits.
According to China's standards, sunset yellow can be used in carbonated drinks, fruit and vegetable juice drinks, sports drinks and other foods, but its scope of use does not include milk tea. That is to say, sunset yellow cannot be used in tea drinks. As long as sunset yellow is used in milk tea, it is used beyond the scope, and it is also illegal. The regulatory authorities detected sunset yellow in this net red milk tea, indicating that the product is the illegal use of food additives, which should be punished according to law, and the practice of the regulatory authorities is no problem.
So, is it that drinking such milk tea will be harmful to health?
<h1>Is milk tea with sunset yellow added harmful to health? </h1>
Not necessarily. To determine whether a food is harmful to health, in addition to looking at its content, it also depends on how much you eat.
As a food additive, sunset yellow is determined by strict risk assessment and safety under the premise of determining the scope and limit of use. The Joint Committee of Experts on Food Additives (JECFA) under the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization assessed Sunset Yellow in 2001 that its permissible daily intake (ADI) did not exceed 2.5 mg/kg body weight. In 2011, JECFA reassessed the safety of sunset yellow, relaxed the ADI value to "4 mg/day/kg body weight", and noted that sunset yellow pigment in the diet does not cause health problems.
In 2014, the European Food Safety Authority updated the temporary allowable daily intake for Sunset Yellow from 1 mg/kg BW to 4 mg/kg BW, in line with JECFA's revised opinion.
According to this ADI value, an adult of 60 kg can consume 240 mg of sunset yellow per day. That is to say, drinking so much sunset yellow every day is not harmful to the body. According to China's national standards, if you want to drink enough 240 mg of sunset yellow, you need to drink about 2.4 liters of this drink per day. And we most people drink about 2 liters of water a day, so you drink 2.4 liters of this drink every day, I think it is difficult for the few people to do it.
Therefore, although this milk tea is a violation of the law, you don't have to worry too much about what harm to your health will be caused by drinking it. A large number of media have said that this milk tea is harmful when it is reported, which is completely creating panic.
Of course, after analyzing so much, I don't want to wash this milk tea white. In fact, according to China's national standards, sunset yellow is not allowed to be used in milk tea. And this net red shop will add sunset yellow to milk tea, it is beyond the scope of use, it is indeed illegal, even if it will not harm the health of consumers, it should also be dealt with severely. Now on the Internet a variety of net red food stores, net red food is also more and more, with the help of the Internet, they sell hot, however, a large number of net red food producers do not understand food safety at all, the production and processing mode is actually the traditional small workshop network version, the food they produce There are many safety hazards, food additives may be only one of the very small links.
It is hoped that when the media reports the violations of internet red food, it will not over-exaggerate the "harm" and hype "poisonous food", and do not completely point the spearhead at food additives, and pay more attention to the food safety problems behind the internet red food.