Speaking from the OMP: food add "healthy ingredients" worthy of pursuit吗? -healthy recipes and snacks

Year of the Ox Chinese New Year has just passed, and add milk特仑苏on much hubbub of the OMP, I received 78 media requests. Reporters ask: OMP what? It harmful? It whole? How much is it to add volume?

I said: sorry, OMP is not a precise scientific terms, are self-made business out of the word. At the Ministry of Health did not release test results, businesses do not themselves provide an accurate statement, I can not give you any answer. I did not investigate, and there is no right to speak.

At present, relevant experts have been saying give the regulatory department has also been give conclusions, do not have to go to discuss whether the product is harmful to the question. However, the case exposed by the food and health claims that question mark should not therefore ends.

In fact, a year ago, many people asked "OMP What is" the problem and ask me: you buy OMP add do not buy the milk? My answer: do not buy.

Why? They asked.

I thought that way. First of all, for the food, the consumer should have the right to know. Apart from natural food ingredients, if you add other ingredients, should inform consumers. Should not only inform its legal name, it should also be informed of its content or content range. For example, add one of a kind of pigment, then the required tags on what kind of note in the end, rather than simply write "pigment." The scope of its content are how much, from food additives can be found on the use of standard, more than the scope is illegal. Promulgated in accordance with our country last year, food nutrition labeling regulations, food, if that adds some nutrients, it must also want to inform what it is material, the content is.

If a product publicity, said one of vigorously add vitamin A, but did not say how much, how do you watch? If you add too much, may cause toxic reactions, unsafe. If you add too little and thus fail to nutritional effects, are not蒙人? Therefore, this product, simply can not buy.

listening to this, we all nodded his head. However, OMP is not a vitamin, ah, ah it is the active ingredient. They asked.

me, that it is because the active ingredients are, even more peace of mind. What is the active ingredient in the end? It's神神秘秘, even the experts refuse to tell,弄个inexplicable abbreviations to deal with the public, this is the lack of respect for the consumer's right to know. Why do we eat a dictionary of biochemistry are even can not find out, even the experts are not sure of suspicious example? Surprisingly also for the many components of such a suspicious money, it is incredible!

everybody agree, but many people still believe that now that add to food products, must be some good things. - normal people listen to "X factor" such as cloud cover fog cover vocabulary and listen more, and is already very accustomed to the speculation of the status of the犯晕vocabulary.

me that question is that it tell you at the packaging on how much you add? Add up the number of patent Say no use, packaging promises add up how much it important. Obviously, such material does not belong to day-to-day added to the nutrient composition of foods. Extra in case of such substances have side effects how to do?

again On the contrary, it is probably a good thing, but businesses inside did not add, or add the amount of very small no effect, and who will supervise it? Now that there is no security, why should you buy it?

management from the perspective of laws and regulations, if a product health claims, such as bone, then it must declare health food products. If it does not have the batch number of health food products, on the role of unauthorized health claims, it is illegal! However, this product really does not have any health food batch.

so, this mysterious material in the end what is safe, or minor problem (now the conclusions have already come out, it does not by cancer risk). Should be most concerned about our food products are exposed in the management of the tremendous vulnerability - be able to permit a self-made business name, even the experts are saying that is not clear what the "active ingredient" milk add this great noodle consumption Canton of food products, after Do not need approval, do not need to publish their real composition, Marking Products Do not need in the real components, and does not require specific content tagging ... ...

If the management problems are not resolved today with OMP, perhaps tomorrow will be out of food in the EMP, UMP and other baffling terms.

consumers have a right to know in the end they ate anything. In particular to food to add extra things. Food additives have to understand that even marked out a significant physiological activity of the biochemical composition can it be ambiguous? If so, can only be used to describe a word: terrible!

few days ago, a well-known anti-counterfeiting Wang prosecute people Coca-Cola Company, because cola drinks contain caffeine, but not in the packaging label on content, but also not suitable for children without prompting drinking beverages that contain caffeine. Coca-Cola feels aggrieved, but from a consumer perspective, there is the number of parents are aware of cola which contain caffeine, may cause a child addicted to it? How many parents know that one of the phosphate absorption of minerals, however disadvantages?

It appears that our country's food labeling and health claims, from the no legal basis to have law, have a good long way to go ah. To really improve food quality and safety, in a sense, the U.S. consumer, we should also learn study Wang, strengthen human rights awareness. Each note is a ballot paper - Although there is no law enforcement power, at least money in our own hands, those who do not behave dishonestly products, we can not cast its votes.

老鸭汤safety: the acidity of the doubt and nitrite-healthy recipes and snacks

According to "China's quality newspaper" reported this month, "can not be separated from materials processing老鸭汤stewed carrots, peppers and老姜such as raw materials, but these materials will have a post-orchestrated acid, total acid is too high not only affect product quality, acid value is too high will oil is toxic, but also endanger the health of consumers. "Chongqing is responsible for Quality Supervision Bureau of a person also said that the new standards required, stewed老鸭汤material shall not exceed the total acid content of 2%, nitrite is also the new standard there is strictly limited, each kg stewing nitrite material may not be more than 20 mg. It is said that this standard is expected to implement during the year.

food sector has been one of those things that feel confused, that is, food and beverage industry on how to control food safety problem. In addition to the total number of coliform bacteria, some details of the norms are often blank. Raw food stored at what temperature? Stew what the quality of ingredients? What quality of seasoning sauce? Cooking temperature is too high too far when frequent work? Add how much salt? How much oil? Cooking oil heated to high acid value of the viscosity change much after? Ingredients not allowed inside so gaya, nitrate, alum and alkali, so that not add flavor and color?

these, perhaps managers would not be able to answer, because there is no relevant standards and regulations. This situation, so that Chinese food has always been free in a variety of food quality standard management system, its quality depends entirely on industry self-regulation, while relying on self-discipline thing, how can consumers be assured it completely. Therefore, the Chongqing老鸭汤introduced such well-known food and beverage products, safety-related standards, it would be very pleased.

However, look at the standards, also see question two.

First, this standard is only expected standards stew, rather than the final product老鸭汤standards. Speaking of stew meal nitrite should not exceed 20mg/kg, are said acid pickling radish time and methods must be in place, because to eat pickled sauerkraut like storms and nitrite poisoning happened uncommon case. Very much hope that such standards not only limit the stew老鸭汤nitrite content material, but also put the fish used in sauerkraut, kimchi beef and other dishes like kimchi dish meal of sauerkraut, pickled vegetables such products restrict the do.

However, the possession of live radish, can manage it cooks? Go south once again to eat a镇店boutique shops老鸭汤, they found老鸭color pink, it is obvious that duck dishes are cooked before or nitrite added. Taste the so-called secret system, the original is such a "technical content." For this kind of abuse of nitrite in food and beverage operation, or possession of such standards it is no matter then?

Second, this standard, there is a puzzling place. Radish acid acidity, and fat acidity, are two concepts completely. High acidity oils are not released because acid radish sake, but because the oxidation deterioration or excessive heating sake. Sour radish with restrictions to ensure the oil acidity acidity standards, what is this logic? Moreover, the normal radish acid or lactic acid are acetic acid, are beneficial to health material, and then after cooking in the process of evaporation and dilution, it is impossible to have any adverse effects on health, why deliberately restrictions? Unless they are worried about using vinegar concentrate sour like to strengthen the practice, which has nothing to do with grease. I believe people in charge of quality supervision bureau certainly have considerable professional standards, definitely would not say such a strange word. Reporter is likely to be understood not in place, put the meaning of get twisted.

thus thought to be a food and health industry reporter, but also long-term should not willingly become a layman, must want a little professionalism, many learn that the relevant知识. At that time, if they can not understand, must want a good hard question, or invited experts to review, to avoid misleading the common people do. Since media coverage, then a direct bearing on people's food choices and health behaviors ah!

always have a mind, I hope newspapers and magazines can do with special health, dietary interviews and writing class, and these personnel are required to undergo a certain induction training before they can be, or directly recruit the relevant professional qualifications university graduates or above.

news source: http://health.sohu.com/20090209/n262132649.shtml

Barbecue in the pepper essence: you Are you afraid of? -healthy recipes and snacks

Recently, there have been quite a few friends to ask: pepper essence What is this? I heard a lot of barbecue food and barbecue sauce are put pepper essence, have some food but also because卤制add pepper and spicy astonishing precision. Synthesis of this kind of thing are you? Toxic and harmful吗?

the original, using pepper sperm to produce food ingredients, is not a fraud thing, but at home and abroad has been the prevailing approach. Spicy duck neck, whether or kebab, or add rice paste or red ...... a lot of oil or chili products have traces of sperm. With it, you want to be able to do many spicy. Thus, at present a lot of hot spicy foods have been unprecedented degree.

a Korean barbecue sauce so the developer wrote: "in essence chili peppers as raw material, widely used in a variety of condiments and foods, its main components are capsaicin, protein, amino acids and sugars, form of dark brown viscous liquid-like. Capsaicin content was about 1.3%, protein and amino acid content of 40%, 23-25% total sugar, colors, attractive, pure taste. "

access to professional article found that the so-called" pepper essence "of the scientific name is called" oleoresin capsicum "pepper are extracted from , concentration obtained from a product that has a strong spicy flavor. It contains besides the spicy chili ingredients, but also contain chilli alcohol, protein, pectin, polysaccharides, such as over a hundred species of Capsanthin complex chemicals. Pepper essence is a general commercial ambiguous name, any category containing capsaicin extract products are called pepper essence, can have very different content. Since 1997 a company in Guizhou first put pepper into refined products market, annual sales have doubled and redoubled. This is because sperm concentration chili homemade goods was very low at present, give the people of India has created a very big benefits.

then, the so-called category of capsaicin, what things?

chemical analysis found that the pungent ingredient in hot peppers is capsaicin substances, including at least eight kinds of the above compounds, one of capsaicin and dihydro - accounted for about 95% of capsaicin. Physiological activity of the strongest are capsaicin, it can be used in medicine on anti-inflammatory analgesic, research has found that they have some immunosuppressive effects, and reduce the role of certain inflammatory factors, are currently used for arthritis and nerve tissue disease treatment of them. At the national defense can be used on the production of injection of self-defense equipment, because direct contact type of capsaicin lead to respiratory tract and eyes, mucous membrane damage, and even directly killed by respiratory epithelial cells. The study also found that capsaicin-type role with the in vitro antioxidant, may delay the copper ion-induced oxidation of blood LDL.

in food production because of the direct use of pepper has all the inconveniences, and the spicy pepper degree must also have restrictions on the appearance of fine pepper producers make a lot of joy about. In view of the consumers of spicy hobby of "not the most spicy, only more hot" pursuit of precision by using pepper spicy Ways to bring a lot of products to sell.

In other words, the chili is not an illegal additive precision, but a natural food extract ingredients. However, even if it is a natural material, there is probably at the same processing used in the process of being contaminated. For example, when the extraction and mixed-use potential of residual organic solvents, which is fine chili Products marked with hazardous substances in the causes of residue standards.

At the same time, even if the ingredients are natural hot pepper, like excessive use may be harmful to health. It is precisely because of chili pepper in spicy sperm are concentrated material products, it is possible to create natural pepper by high prices and should not spicy degrees, so it mucosal damage could be even greater. Stimulate people to pursue caution.

the skin, eyes, mouth, respiratory and digestive tract there is injury, there is inflammation or ulceration of the state there is, do not try to contain chilli refined food . Hand contact with it after a period of time not to go to touch and rub the eyes, so as not to cause unnecessary suffering.

References:

1黄启强, high degree of spicy pepper oleoresin (pepper essence) the extraction study. Food Industry Technology . 2005,26 (6) :58-65

2 Robbins W; Clinical applications of capsaicinoids. Clin J Pain. 2000 Jun; 16 (2 Suppl): S86-9 .

3 Christopher RA. Capsaicinoids cause inflammation and epithelial cell death through activation of vanilloid receptors. Toxicological sciences. 2003, 73 (1) :170-181

(strange, most recently a half months, and then paste the word to change the font face is always a lot of trouble, in any case where the letter or figure on the problem. Is it for the system are caused by Sohu blog?)

Pie head soak in trouble-healthy recipes and snacks

away from home the day before yesterday, when the supper on a "gold flounder head" dishes. In fact, this dish is quite common, most restaurants have a "bubble head pie" dish, the head of this flounder. The problem is that each ate this dish, I feel thirsty mouth, tongue discomfort. The worse, beginning in the stomach hard on plane, tried to return home, things are out of fish smell. It is obvious that most likely are not fresh due to the head.

this flounder pie head soak very welcome by the customers, but most restaurants have a common problem: Too heavy seasoning. Many salt, soy sauce, add sugar, monosodium glutamate and a variety of sauce, the taste of mouth甜咸extremely strong. No wonder this dish quickly opened the sales, because of its strong seasoning really impressive.

I have repeatedly said that if the dish is sweet and salty taste of rich, then it will be much higher salinity in non-sweet food, because there is reduce the salty sweet role. Bubble head cake is such a dish. It has many soup, but also put these customers with cake salty broth to a staggering蘸食all eaten, so after eating this dish, the total amount of salt intake is a staggering quantity!

No wonder every time after eating, feel that the tongue and mouth were salted too hard - some more salt, they are afraid of faster into the bacon. U.S. stomach, they will probably get injured, because of gastric wall mucus layer protective layer that are vulnerable to many salt to soak wash.

At the same time, to do this head, the general need to salt, but also possible to carry out deep-fried or fried. Used frying oil had not high quality, but also through repeated heating, and are not conducive to health. Some restaurants in order to add strong flavor, use margarine to fish or fish head first. This oil, eat Yi?

For this reason, I never touch those who had been released a lot of oil cake, but do not want to go蘸食the so-called taste sauce. After this lesson, and even the head itself慎食to see if fresh enough.

But why do some restaurants are so strong seasoning it? Not put the head light some吗? Needless to say, in fact, can be guessed, dishes flavorings过浓, most are raw materials in order to cover up the smell or not fresh. Refreshing fresh seasonings go well as raw materials, it is a great waste. As the production of steamed fish must live fish are, and the production of dry fish, stewed fish, but are probably dead fish九成. Also, for example, has been a bit smelly with the meat to make flavored concentrated回锅肉almost do not eat out; and if we use it to make stew or general cooking dishes, definitely it is difficult to cover up the smell of.

If the head is fresh, that could have been done not so salty, but not significantly reduced the extent of its taste. People love the strong flavor dishes, the pursuit of taste stimulation, the middle wants some restaurants because they are more user-friendly low-grade material to reduce the cost of the ... ...

It suffices to say that the head of raw materials flounder if not fresh, there is obvious smell, restaurants will be developed into such a rich dish amazing. Comments from the Internet easy to flounder fish meat, then broken in, you can listen to it usually not fresh fish. Since fresh fish is not broken, and only take a long time meat will become worse. Such raw materials, bacteria or exceeded the total number of breeding a number of pathogens, it is not a strange thing.

Friend heard this matter on my question: What kind of flounder fish? Why have only seen the middle of the head have not seen it? In fact, it is a relatively flat shape of the deep-sea fish, the fish succulent and tender meat. The problem is that middle part was used for processing into fish processing plants, fish and other products for export overseas, most Chinese people been able to see is the factory production waste - the head, also there is fish. These things from the factory to the restaurants, has not necessarily very fresh. Head with gills, large quantity of bacteria, is the fish most likely site of corruption, if the transport or retention of improperly, are more likely not fresh meat, or breeding of pathogens.

I have been wondering abuse it, can eat Chinese on the head with fish scraps, and even the raw materials are not new, only foreign the person can get a good deep-sea fish? Now the financial crisis in the West, is not screaming at stimulating domestic demand growth, but also give their own people that fair treatment, let us eat that the original export only high quality food, work?

Popcorn carefully the new dangerous! -healthy recipes and snacks

a day job to the School at 6:30, the students still look to do the experiment, it was decided from the canteen something delicious things to thank them. What ice糖葫芦ah, ah donkey butter, tea ah eggs, fried mushrooms ... ah ... one big package installed. When I walked out of canteen when suddenly the door to see there is a popcorn stand to be attracted to fragrance, so went over to buy one package, students must want to enjoy these things.

However, in the evening light that popcorn look carefully apportioned, they could not help but have caught the cold.

a large piece of white solid fats, there is no doubt that the infamous man-made butter. I have countless times told consumers, which contained trans fatty acids harmful to human health will be greatly increased, heart disease, diabetes and even Alzheimer's, and probably with associated infertility. When I asked, the chef said with a smile, it was butter.

me that you are cream plants, cheaper than butter. Look at him surprised me, I seem to feel that perhaps are a bit non-professionals. He said that this plant butter is also one jin 10 yuan, the butter how 10 dollars buy.

I said, clinging cream possible? He said that what is good ah, too dry a. Of course, you can put a little less. I say: a child does not eat popcorn is clinging oil ah. Master said, but that lead popcorn ah, toxic ah! It seems that he knows how to quite many, but he did not know that this sweet-smelling plants cream, if eaten many, and may not be greater than that of lead hazards of small elements.

And, I also see that there is next to four bottles, bottle Department mottled plaques forwarding to the same splash as a dark paint color. My question: What is this? Master said that it was Flavor ah, brown flavors are chocolate, cantaloupe are green, yellow are orange, and red is strawberry. Shannon does not it does not. Of course, you can also want the original flavor.

I said, of course, want the original flavor, and white popcorn become colorful, many horrible. Master quickly explained to me, these flavors is not allocated me! Are products of informal enterprises to do, you look above the names of all manufacturing enterprises do. However, I am sorry, what I wanted to spent pot chocolate flavor, I am afraid you have to get this little brown pot.

I carefully looked at the bottles, which turns out to be a chemical enterprise products. One of the ingredients are all natural food coloring and flavors, there are other accessories. Although I used to watch these terms, know it's not poison, but the thought of people actually put such a strong color such as watercolor stomach to swallow, or a bit dizzy, not to mention its taste is too strong to choke people.

away with him, I put a big number of those infected with light brown back to the laboratory of popcorn. It met with the students cheered. Xinhuai my guilt to think: if they are aware there are things that are hazardous to health? Although not many plants put butter, after all, contrary to my usual stay away from trans fatty acids to the principles of the ah.

In fact, popcorn in trouble, I do not know first. A result of the coachman did not have dinner, moving the car to buy a bag of microwave popcorn, perhaps add a little motion sickness due to stomach churn for a long time after eating, vomiting. Go home, I purposely bought microwave popcorn from the supermarket before we know what it actually contains 15 percent fat, but fat is a rich source of trans fatty acids of hydrogenated vegetable oil! From then on, I can not eat microwave popcorn.

only recently aware that the original sale of popcorn is filled, are in the use of hydrogenated vegetable oil made from plants butter. Moreover, compared with the previous two years, and now even more shocking amount, but also added various fragrance and pigment!

who I would like to master, said himself in danger. In 2007 the United States have reported that the production of popcorn, if not the workers, often add flavor to eat popcorn, may also lead to a called "popcorn lung" disease. The symptoms of this disease are cough and shortness of breath, because contacts are many "diacetyl" arising. Diacetyl is a naturally occurring in food aroma components in fermented dairy products, bakery and have an extremely small amount of diacetyl. However, the popcorn flavor diacetyl which is too strong too choked, its on the human body to stimulate the lungs strong, natural foods are unparalleled.

the past, people only know that popcorn small converter which contain lead, and those who lead not from corn, are from the converter under high-temperature volatile status of the lead. However, the number of people now know that when they watch movies and eat sweet popcorn, the original is such a considerable number contain saturated fat, a considerable number of additives, considerable trans-fatty acids, but also harm the lungs of unhealthy food it?

Found in the food safety and health-healthy recipes and snacks

In the case of melamine after a lot of friends have said nothing of the kind: Having read a lot about "toxic food" report, almost covers our day-to-day spending most of the food. We Chinese people have something to eat it? Just simply starved to death. "

such a feeling, it is able to represent the part of people's feelings. They feel that this was also poisoned, it would have contaminated ingredient suspected in all, fear of all, I feel the food on the table things are terrible. Another part is people破罐破摔, now that nothing is certainly safe to eat, what to eat What to eat simply and do not consider what nutritional balance.

more than these two emotions, can enhance people's health.

pollution in this world, looking for completely non-toxic food ingredients, it is impossible to find. Antarctic krill have been detected pesticide ingredients, what is there to clean? As long as enough precision testing instruments, in food products, be able to find various chemical substances: we often eat pharmaceutical ingredients, we take a bath of chemicals等日shampoo ingredients, we used in the soil of Rodenticide灭蟑Herbicides Fungicides drugs, our industrial production of wastewater sludge, our car tire rubber friction particles, as well as our favorite lamb kebab smoke ... ... have the packaging, transportation inadvertently contaminated with harmful substances and those of people deliberately掺杂使假added non-food components.

in such a world, how should we do?扎起throat are things to eat, or just乱吃? It is obvious that things are suicidal do not eat, and things乱吃would cause malnutrition or nutritional imbalance.

even though "malnutrition" and "nutritional imbalance" of the word sounds is not terrible, in fact, harm than the melamine, white crane Sudan more like block. Since nutritional imbalance, each year has more than 250 million people suffering from cardio-and cerebro-vascular disease to leave this world; because nutritional imbalance, a growing number of cancer and people were tortured by a variety of chronic diseases. Strangely enough, for these terrible diseases, but people nonchalant and not prevention.

in turn, think about the pollution in this same world, eating the same "unsafe" food, why is the health of someone, it was unhealthy? Why is someone dynamic, someone flagging? Why do some people slim bodybuilding, it was overstaffed baggy? Why do some color Moisturizes, someone yellow bleak? All these health differences, can only be explained by food safety吗?

people living in this world, why eat food? This basic question, but a lot of people are often forgotten. Want to eat food, favorite food, just a representation. It is the essence of the human body are in the pursuit of the nutritional content of food and health ingredients. Without these ingredients, food would have no value. Even cleaner such as pure water, does not contain any toxins, not enough will give health benefits. That is why, for food, only required "security", or not enough. Not enough to give up because of food safety in the pursuit of healthy ingredients, but also a lack of rational.

at扰扰have food safety incident, may wish to clarify our thinking so:

food insecurity , are brought to us the dangers of the outside world. The size of these dangerous it is difficult to predict, endless trouble for them, and to ensure their health is concerned, there are not many practical benefits.

health factors in food, are brought to us the bounty of nature. These benefits have been scientifically proven, we can, through their own choice to get them. For the protection of their health, the right choice is even more important.

not accurate enough to cite an example: even though the world's frequent traffic accidents, but if people have bought a car, we will consider not only safety, but also consider other performance, it can give us the actual benefits. Since, in the final analysis, our cars are for the benefits of buying a car.

Similarly, we are food for the healthy ingredients and eating food. In other words, now that people can not leave food for survival, rather than to concentrate on "what should not" above the negative ideas, such as a change in thinking not to give more consideration to "what I should eat."

Happily, if we select those who are in favor of nutrition and health food, then we will stay away from a lot of insecurity. On the one hand, those who are often better quality food, more fresh, healthy ingredients disadvantage less; On the other hand, those of food can improve our resistance and "detoxification" ability to assist our body to remove pollution, improve the overall level of safety.

At the same time, yes, if we find the key points, set up the basic concept of a healthy diet can be less susceptible to the effects of some erroneous information, not in detail similar to those of the category g very confused and disoriented on the matter, to focus on how to balance their nutritional intake on the event, for example -

today, you ate a pound of vegetables , there is one of half a catty绿叶菜吗?

today, you ate half a catty of grain, there is at least one of a kind of coarse grains吗?

you ate a soy products today吗?

today, you ate half a catty of fruit?

today you drank a glass of milk, yogurt or milk吗?

today you ate an egg or eggs in the same quantity of other吗?

you can do light cooking, put less oil and salt吗?

day you food more than 20 kinds of raw materials often吗?

these health practices, will give you a good health and lay the framework. They have the bottom, even if there are still food insecure lot of factors, at least we can get all kinds of precious lives and health of the necessary ingredients to maintain the vitality of the basic and the "anti" capacity. On this basis, further away from the relatively low value of some health food, diet quality can be greatly enhanced.

Oh, wordy so many, in the final analysis, this book with our readers want to explore is filled with insecurity in the food world, how to find health Survive Way to find life happy.

thoughts decide the way out. As long as consider another perspective, we will see that in this world, food enjoyment, food safety and health of beauty can co-exist in harmony.

; - for "How to eat the most secure," one of the preface written

(I was not a food safety expert, do not want to write what has been food safety book, but the editor can put my hard edge and food safety knot the set of characters, so this has been forthcoming from the Chinese chemical industry published a new book: how to eat the most secure.)

Misunderstanding of food additive-healthy recipes and snacks

since the milk powder incident, asked for an interview on Food Additives of the media suddenly many questions up. However, after listening to journalist's question, I found that they ask the question, most of them and additives打不着eight poles. This regard, people's misconceptions are so many to such an extent that even the problem itself, are enormous misunderstanding.

Misunderstanding 1: food add harmful substances, are food additives.

recently announced nine ministries food possible to add the list of non-food substances Originally, in order to clarify what are food additives, what non-food substances, result is just the opposite, had been mistakenly described as "illegal food additives" list. Dumbfounding to me want to, make such a "non-food substances" list, not very absurd吗? Tomorrow, someone probably put added watercolor cakes, the day after someone put lime powder added to flour, the大后天someone put red chilli powder added to flour in crime ...... endless creative ah yes, then this list is not will be a long extended, put 10 million kinds of non-food substances are included?

In fact, the food additive is a proper noun, it refers specifically to those countries that permit the use of added material in food products. The reason why a lot of people very bad impression of the additive is added to because of illegal food products and food additives things confused. May wish to make a test:

Which of the following substances do not belong to food additives? (You can choose many)

A formaldehyde ; B吊白块C Sudan D industrial paraffin E melamine

F Calcium Propionate G potassium sorbate I Dichlorvos H sulfite J benzene peroxide acid

Among the options in the above, A, B, C, D, G are non-food substances. Formaldehyde foam used to seafood, to use bleaching powder吊白块silk, with Sudan to give chili oil stain, industrial paraffin wax polish to give fruit, this is prohibited by country. Because they simply do not belong to the scope of food additives, there is sure to human health hazards. This is like people should not draw the pigments used to make beverages, which can not be painted the wall color paint to give the same cake. Melamine is not what natural food additives. It should have been affixed to furniture and plastic bowls of noodle production materials. Add it to food products can be said to be an incredible amazing "creative." All times and had not put melamine into food products of the records, naturally not have this kind of food additives.

those non-food substances, regardless of the number of add in food, are illegal. Food additives is different, if not excess, super scope of use, is lawful. For example, in the candy country permission to add food coloring, as long as the content is not excessive is not illegal. Unless there is a new scientific study found that the toxicity of its reaction, only by government departments to change their use limited, or food additives from the list go out. So that the reporter from the association of melamine to food additives, is completely misunderstood the basic concepts of food additives.

two errors: Some brand that does not contain additives, so better than other brands.

assert that there is a food expert: "I do not add any food additive of processed foods, it is impossible for high-quality, safe food. " - In modern society, the words not out of line. However, we will see in shopping malls have some good food brands such publicity: "This product does not contain preservatives. "" This product contains no artificial coloring. "" This product does not contain fragrance. "Consumers move their heart, think they are more healthy, so pleased to buy.

In fact, it is only a means of commercial publicity it. It uses consumer food additives do not know, let people misunderstood that only this brand does not contain some additives, on the other brands contain. This often seems there is unfair competition. For example, instant noodles containing little water, do not need to add long-term preservation of preservatives, to do this propaganda, in fact, is a deliberate attempt to mislead the "nonsense."

in accordance with the June 2008 start of the "hygiene standards of food additives" in the provisions of our country will be divided into 22 categories of food additives, a total of 1812 kinds, including 290 kinds of additives, 1528 kinds of spices, 149 kinds of processing aids, Chewing Gum have 55 kinds of basic agents. All over the world food additives market to reach annual sales of more than 16 billion U.S. dollars. Modern food processing difficult to completely leave the preservatives. Even some foods that do not contain preservatives, may not contain anti-oxidants; even if that does not contain pigment, does not mean that it does not contain fragrance, it does not mean do not contain emulsifiers, thickeners and other additives.

three errors: There is no food additives must safer.

In many cases, if no suitable additives, processed foods will only become more unsafe. Take instant noodles, the grease in the air will be released ten days to have Ha La flavor, and deep-fried instant noodles is the shelf life for half a year, and will not有味. Why? Since there is one of anti-oxidants. Grease in the air oxidation, is only right and proper thing. If you do not want to curb oxidation problem approach, resulting in substantial oxidation of substances harmful to health, what to eat have value?

outside apart from instant noodles, all relatively high fat content of food, it will inevitably have to resort to anti-oxidants. What rice crust, potato chips, small Serratula, orchids beans, and even some cookies, cookies, sending those inside ... ... the supermarket is a good one released a few months with oil products, if we do not add anti-oxidants, it is easy变味.

also, for instance, those who take a long time at the supermarket's fruit preserves, soy sauce and pickles which, in the absence of sugar and salt of these two "natural preservatives" and assist, on the will soon be destroyed by bacteria and fungi. But now people are aware that many糖吃salt and not conducive to health. Therefore sugar preserved fruit and low-salt pickles can only resort to a synthetic preservatives. Also, for example, kids like to eat the jelly, but also need to add preservatives. Otherwise, it is not the high sugar content, moisture content is so large, how can at room temperature to preserve them so long.

so that food additives should not add time to add no chaos, which does not add time to add them. The most important thing, after all, food security, micro-organisms always ready with us compete for nutrients in food, air, oxygen is also ready to let the nutritional content of food oxidation metamorphism. As many experts have said, do not add additives, processed foods, in general, are very rare, but is not reassuring.

four errors: additive merchants are only used to deceive the consumer things.

why the modern food industry can not be separated from food additives? Consumers because the appearance of the food quality, texture quality, convenience, save time raised demanding than ever. If there are no additives, it is difficult to imagine the food to maintain a pleasant time status, it is hard to imagine that consumers can be assured of food to eat. Can not take 12 days or corruption will长霉Products, supermarkets dare to sell it? Released a few days will pale变味products, production enterprises dare to sell it? Even if they dare to sell, consumers are willing to purchase吗?

if consumers refuse to buy fresh raw materials to produce their own, also called for the preservation of food a long time and pretty colors special taste good, it would be only a peaceful coexistence and food additives. - not a desire to meet are not a price. Think easy, think convenience, thought the mouth addictive and often have to pay a certain price. Businessmen are not so much to deceive consumers, better to say that consumers are color blind pursuit of their own fragrance, blind pursuit of "open BAG eat" convenience.

so that the food additive, it should be accepted calmly, sure that their food safety, taste and convenience of the contributions made, but consumers should avoid the excessive pursuit of texture, color , Taste of errors, acceptance of the natural characteristics of food, and look at the ingredients on the packaging shows that in order to select food wisely.

For those who do not belong to food additives harmful substances, if added to food, should be severely punished by the law. Hope that the legal definition of this case, it should be to achieve a "threat to public safety" Level of conviction, not just the "manufacturing of fake and shoddy products" punishment.