Four mistaken ideas of food additive Six major watching focuses of the food label

Four mistaken ideas of food additive Six major watching focuses of the food label
Four mistaken ideas of food additive Six major watching focuses of the food label
" gather cyanogen amine three times " , " footing of hot pot " , " brightening agent of flour " , " dyeing steamed bun " Become focuses that the society pays close attention to time and again when food security and food additive problem that initiate. What is food additive on earth? What do people have to food additive to misunderstand? Food institute's nutrition and food security of China Agricultural University are that associate professor Fan ZhiHong say point by point for you. The mistaken idea one: The harmful substance added in the food is all food additive. In fact, food additive is a proper noun, it refers in particular to those countries and permits using the material added in the food. The reason why a lot of people are extremely bad to additive impression, because lump together to thing and food additive in the food adding illegally. Those materials not eaten, no matter how much is added in food, are all illegal activities. Food additive is different, so long as not ultra quantity, out-of-range use, it is legal. For example, add the edible pigment that the country permitted into candy, does not break the law if exceed standard in content. Unless science discovers it has new toxicity that reacts, is not changed it to use and put a limit on quantity by the government department, or reject it out from food additive list. The mistaken idea two: Some brands declare that to include additive is more high-quality so than other brands. A food expert affirms: " the processed food without any food additive, it can not be the high-quality, safe food " . In the modern society, this is not excessive. However, we will see some brand good food is propagated like this in the store: "This product does not contain preservatives. " "This product does not contain the artificial color. " "This product does not contain the essence. " Consumer's heart moves to some extent, think them healthier, then buy joyfully. In fact, this is only a kind of commercial propaganda means. It utilize the intersection of consumer and understanding in food additive, let people misunderstand the brand include a certain additive only, other brands contain. This is often suspected of illegitimate competition. For example, the instant noodles include little moisture, keep and does not need to add preservatives at all for a long time, do this kind of propaganda, it is in fact a kind of " make nonsense " misleading intentionally . It is reported, every annual sales amount of market of food additive in whole world reaches more than 16 billion dollars. It is very difficult for modern food processing to totally leave preservative. Even if a certain food declares that does not contain preservatives, may contain antioxidant; Even if declare that is neither contain the pigment, equal to not containing the essence equal to not containing other additive such as emulsifier, thickening agent, nor. The mistaken idea three: The food without additive must be safer. Under many circumstances, without appropriate additive, it will only be more unsafe to process food. Take instant noodles as an example, oil put, ten come, have bad smell, loudspeaker of Kazakhstan, day in air, and quality guarantee period of fried instant noodles is half a year, and there is no flavor. Why? Because there is antioxidant among them. The oil is oxidized in the air, it is a right and proper thing. If does not try every possible means to contain and oxidize the question, a large number of ones that are harmful to health emerge to oxidize the material, what value eaten is there? Besides instant noodles, every food of higher oil content, will unavoidably seek help from antioxidant. Such as crust of cooked rice, chips, small fried dough twist, orchid beans, even some biscuits, cookies, group It is products containing oil for several months that one those inside of the supermarket are put, if does not add antioxidant, it is very apt to lose flavour. And for example, the candied fruit, soy sauce, salted vegetables for a long time are put in the supermarket, without these two kinds candies and salt " Natural preservative " Help,know soon bacterium destroy as mould. But nowadays people all know, salt and candy have been eaten too much and unfavorable to the health. Then low candy chest and less salt pickles can only seek help from and formate preservatives. There are jellies, must add preservative too. Otherwise, it is not tall in candy content, moisture is also so large, how to keep at the room temperature for such a long time. Thus, food additive must should add arbitrarily while adding, must add either when should add. The food security is the most important after all, the microorganism always plans to fight for the nutriment in the food with us, the oxygen in the air plans to let the nutrient component in the food be oxidized, gone bad at any time too. Just like what a lot of experts said, totally the processed food without additive, in general, it is very rare, and make people not rest assured very much. The mistaken idea four: Additive is a thing that the trade company cheated consumers to use. Why is modern food industry due to food additive? Because respects such as the appearance quality, mouthfeel quality, convenience, holding time to the food of consumers,etc. have put forward the tight and severe requirement. Without additive, keep the pleasant state on it is very difficult to imagine the food can be long-time, also it is very difficult to imagine consumers can have the food resting assured. Set free on the intersection of president and mould corrupt products, dare supermarket sell for one or two days? Can not put the products that will change color and lose flavour in a few days, dare the manufacturing enterprise sell? Even if they dare sell, would consumers like to buy? If consumers are unwilling to buy fresh raw materials to make, require the holding time of food is long, the beautiful mouthfeel of the color is very good, then, can only coexist peacefully with food additive. Thus, to food additive, should accept calmly, affirm their security, delicious food and convenient contribution done to the food, but consumers should avoid excessively pursuing the mistaken ideas of the mouthfeel, color, taste, accept the natural characteristic of the food, and it explains to examine the batching packed carefully, thus choose the food wisely. Extend six which reads the food labels and see there is more and more processed food on some markets big, seem unavoidable and dazzled. How is nutrition? How safe? How is quality? In order to let consumers know quality and intension of the products, various countries have made the relevant law, the product information of the detail in packing of demanding to process food, in order to ensure consumers' right of being in know. However, consumers are true to acknowledge information? Then, how should the food label be read? Might as well examine carefully one by one according to the following projects. 1.See the food classification. Will indicate classification of food at the label, name of classification whether whom country permit standardize the name, can reflect the essence of the food. For example, you may see that mark out " milk of coffee " on a box of beverages ,But is it a kind of beverage or products of milk of a bull kept for covering on earth? If the one that see on labels " The food classification " The project is marked out " Flavour the milk " ,You will know, this is to add some coffee and candy in the milk, but not add sugar, thickening agent, coffee and a small amount of milk inside water. If is the latter, it is then " milk beverage " on the food classification ,It is not the milk. 2 . See the batching table. The nutrition quality of the food, depend on raw materials and proportion in essence. According to regulation requirement, the raw materials of biggest content should rank the first, minimum raw materials rank the last location. For example, are writing " rice flour, cane sugar, malt dextrin, oat, walnut on the batching tables of some oatmeal products ",Prove the content of rice flour among them is the highest, the cane sugar takes second place, there are all few oat and walnut among them. Such products, the nutritive value can be well imagined. If is writing " oat, rice flour, cane sugar, malt dextrin, walnut on the batching table of the products "Its quality will obviously be much better. Meanwhile, it is stricter and stricter to add the annotation of the composition to the food at present, can't use briefly " The pigment " , " edulcorant " Wait for the fuzzy name, and must mark out its concrete name. In this way, consumers can see some one's own name that can not see from the batching table on ordinary days directly, such as " lemon yellow " , " carmine " , " the bar of Sri Lankan of A is sweet " , " happy and plain" Wait, usually mean containing some food additive in the food. 3.See the nutrient content. To much food, the important goal of what the nutrient is pursued by people. And to as to food winning in mouthfeel, want indexes such as the heat, fat, saturated fatty acid, sodium and cholesterol content carefully among them,etc.. For example, if buy a soya-bean milk powder products, it is obviously for getting protein and other nutrient components among them. Then, usually the products of protein with the higher content, show compositions from soybean are the more among them, health function is just stronger. So, a piece of products that protein content is greater than or equal to 20%, will usually be superior to a piece of products that protein content is greater than or equal to 16%. 4.See the weight of the products, net content or thing content of firm shape. Some products seem it may be cheap, but if calculate according to net content, will probably be more expensive than other like products. For example, the price of first the intersection of bread and product may make you moved, the volume is almost large. But one net content of product write 120, 160 another kind write. In fact, the former may be more fluffy after just fermenting, but by the look of total amount of nutrition, obviously the latter is to one's more profit. 5.Look on date of production and quality guarantee period. There should be quality to mean what can guarantee the products possess when being dispatched from the factory in quality guarantee period, overdue quality drops to some extent, but can still probably eat safely; The shelf life or last edible time limit showed this date can not ensure the security that is eaten. Within quality guarantee period, the products that should choose to be closest to date of production. Not overdue means the food still has security and mouthfeel, with the extension of time after all, the nutrient component or health care composition among them will have reducing at various degrees. For example, quality guarantee period of a certain yoghurt is 14 days, but in fact, even if store in the refrigerator, the intersection of lactic acid and the intersection of fungus and living the intersection of fungus and quantity among them reduce constantly. So, in order to obtain the health benefit among them, the yoghurt that can choose to be closest to date of production. 6.See and authorize the sign. Have various the intersection of quality authentication and sign at the much packaging of food, organic the intersection of food and sign, pollution-free food indicate and environment-friendly the intersection of food and sign, QS mark etc., and the market access proves. These signs represent security quality and management quality of the products, consumers can be in their concrete meanings of online enquiries. In equal cases, can choose to have products authorized preferably. Reporter Zhang LiangRu of morning paper


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