2013年5月28日星期二

Food additives Know


Premier Wen Jiabao chaired a State Council executive meeting, pointed out that the current urgent need to strengthen food quality and safety supervision, improve production license, mandatory product certification, special equipment safety supervision and other regulatory system. Strengthening of key products, key industries and key areas of quality and safety risk monitoring and analysis and evaluation, especially in food production and marketing chain, to focus on production source of governance, strengthen market supervision and management.

For food additives, most consumers do not know much. In fact, in the 1980s, China's only five six hundred kinds of food additives. The use of food additives in a reasonable, some food additives also contain substances that are beneficial to human body, such as lycopene can increase the body vitamin E, oligosaccharides, oligosaccharide, xylitol, etc., can lower blood sugar, proliferation of intestinal Probiotics prevent obesity.

Fault is not food additives

Food additive itself is not wrong, is due to lack of supervision of those black-hearted corporate abuse, misuse and illegal use of food additives, and even add non-food substances act. More prominent performance in two aspects: First, unlimited use of additives, some several times exceeding the prescribed limits, or even a hundred times, is bound to cause harm to humans. Two non-food additives overuse and abuse is very serious. For example: Sudan, melamine and plasticizing agents, does not belong to food additives, allowed to add to the food inside. Again, you can use lemon in the cake, but where it is not allowed to use in bread.

 Illegal use and abuse of serious

Food additives which are legal and which are illegal to do? For example: melamine, clenbuterol and other food additives is not, but chemical raw materials, these substances are added to food is strictly prohibited. Require the use of a total of 907 kinds of food additives, such as preservatives, antioxidants, thickeners, emulsifiers, sweeteners, bulking agent, is essential for the food, the daily eat soy sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate, salt etc., are all areas of food additives. Because of these food additives, after a rigorous safety assessment in accordance with the requirement to use and will not cause harm to humans.

Try to eat less processed foods

People in the choice of food, you should avoid excessive pursuit of taste, color, head of the errors, do not over-reliance on processed foods, the best choice preserve the natural characteristics of the food, attention to the natural quality of the food. For example: try to choose seasonal vegetables and fruits, eat packaged foods, anti-season vegetables and fruits, puffed food, quick food and processed deli.bag factory Especially surprisingly large or unusually red fruit, generally are not the natural quality of the food.

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