In life, we often encounter such problems, and mothers communicate, often heard that children at home to cook meals basically do not like to eat, most of them are willing to eat small foods in the supermarket or food outside fast food restaurants, even home-boiled eggs do not eat, but especially like egg yolk pie; and some primary and secondary school teachers to communicate about nutritious meal problems, but also often hear such a reflection, saying that students to the end of class time and lunchtime, quickly run outside the school gate, buy a variety of fast food, Is not willing to eat the food in the school canteen, some of the teachers who manage the canteen are very incomprehensible, saying that we also do our best to engage in the diet of the canteen, and even are matched nutritious meals, why not favored by students! The main reason for analyzing this phenomenon is food additives.
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Food additives are chemically synthesized or natural substances added to food to improve food quality and the needs of color, aroma, taste, and preservative and processing processes. The home kitchen has a variety of seasonings, including oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, cooking wine, sugar and other basic seasonings. There may also be chemical seasonings (sodium glutamate, that is, monosodium glutamate), and things like additives are baking soda, baking powder and the like. Simply put, anything that is not available in the kitchen, something that cannot be imagined, is a food additive.
The reason why children are reluctant to eat meals in the family and school canteens is mainly that food additives are not used here, small foods in supermarkets, all kinds of pastries, various pie (strawberry pie, egg yolk pie, chocolate pie), all contain hydrogenated oil, all kinds of flavors and spices, including all kinds of ham, all kinds of drinks, all kinds of milk drinks, as well as a variety of fish balls, meatballs, etc., which kind of food processing is inseparable from food additives, some foods even use dozens of ingredients, such as egg yolk pie ingredients: flour, white sugar, shortening, Hydrogenated vegetable oil, maltose syrup, oligo maltose syrup, cocoa powder, whole milk powder, glucose syrup, condensed milk, skimmed milk powder, chocolate (cocoa butter substitute), lactose, emulsifier, stabilizer, xanthan gum, leavening agent, coffee powder, food flavor, etc., at least more than ten kinds of food additives should be used.
For example, the number of additives for a 50-gram ice cream can reach up to 40 kinds! Look at the ingredient list: drinking water, yellow peach pulp, phospholipids, polyglyceryl ricinol, lactic acid, sodium lactate, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, xanthan gum, glyceryl monostearate, guar gum, carrageenan, citric acid, sodium citrate, edible yogurt flavor, edible blueberry flavor, cyclamate, amaranth red, bright blue ... Some varieties of additives are not so many, these foods are not necessarily unpalatable, but if eaten every day, the intake of additives in the body exceeds the ability of children to metabolize and exclude every day , it will accumulate in the body, causing harm. There are also spicy hot and rice noodles, etc., all of which use corresponding additives.
The above heavy flavor foods, after the children eat, and then eat the meals in the house will appear to have no taste. In this case, our parents and masters in the school canteen need to try to change the flower samples for the children when cooking, reasonably match the nutritious meals, pay attention to the color, aroma, taste and shape of the food, and carry out positive education and guidance for the children, so that they gradually know how to ingest nutritious and safe food and grow healthily.