A child like to eat popcorn, this time to do popcorn old man will add a mysterious material, plus a little bit of popcorn with the slightest sweetness, grew up and found that the original is added Saccharin, sweetness is a hundred times the sucrose. With the news of the exposure, we gradually found in life a variety of "fine" added in our food. For example, if you want to add some sweet sour, to spicy add some pepper essence, do not want to eat fat and clenbuterol ... ... these foods in the "fine", whether our health will be harmful, we How should we look at these food additives?
With the development of science and technology, in order to make food color, smell, taste and other quality to a higher level, some food additives quietly prevalent. Now people are still talking about food additives discoloration, many people do not know the difference between food additives and illegal additives. What are the additives that change the color of the food?
saccharin
The name of the saccharin sodium, in the taste of giving sweet feeling, is a legitimate sweetener, but not regulate the body's physiological function of sucrose. When eating too much saccharin, it will affect the normal secretion of gastrointestinal digestive enzymes, small intestine absorption function will be reduced, resulting in loss of appetite. The International Food Additives Committee's safety standard for saccharin is no more than 5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day. As the sweetness of saccharin is hundreds of times the sugar, as long as a little bit will be able to achieve enough sweet, so generally do not produce excessive intake of the situation occurred, qualified video is completely assured. In some poor beverages, candied fruit and preserved fruit, there may be too much sesame phenomenon.
MSG
In our lives, monosodium glutamate is common when we cook, can help to mention fresh. The main ingredient of monosodium glutamate is the sodium salt of glutamate, and glutamic acid is one of the amino acids that make up the protein, and many natural foods are available. MSG is generally produced by microbial fermentation of food, the processing is very safe. There is a view that sodium glutamate will decompose at high temperatures, resulting in harmful substances to the human body. In fact, the thermal stability of sodium glutamate is very good, more than 270 degrees Celsius will break down, so in general cooking will not reach the destruction of sodium glutamate temperature. Monosodium glutamate is best in the Pro before the pot and then put. Because the temperature is above 120 degrees Celsius, some sodium glutamate may be converted to sodium pyroglutamate. Although sodium pyrophosphate has no effect on health, its effect on food is minimal.
Chicken
In addition to monosodium glutamate, there are starch, flavoring nucleotides, sugar and other spices, there are some manufacturers will add chicken powder or other meat extract, so that the taste of chicken than monosodium glutamate rich. MSG and chicken are safe, but they all contain a lot of sodium, high salt intake easily lead to elevated blood pressure, while intracellular and extracellular levels of sodium can lead to cell edema, vascular smooth muscle cell swelling, vascular stenosis, peripheral blood vessels Resistance increases, causing high blood pressure. High salt diet in addition to elevated blood pressure, but also directly damage the heart, brain, blood vessels. It will affect the brain tissue blood supply, so that long-term brain cells in the ischemic, hypoxia of the abnormal state. Disrupting the original balance of the body, greatly affected the health. Chicken and monosodium supplements contain sodium ions, to strictly control the amount of salt used after the use of the relative reduction of some.
Clenbuterol
Clenbuterol is a collection of many animal drugs collectively. You can let the animals are less fat or even long fat, the state banned the use of clenbuterol. This is because once the residue in the animal body of drugs into the body, it will slowly accumulate, and finally cause poisoning. May cause muscle tremor, palpitation, trembling, headache, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms, especially for high blood pressure, heart disease, hyperthyroidism and prostatic hypertrophy and other diseases more harmful, serious can lead to death. The state stipulates that olaquindox is also a typical illicit drug. It has obvious teratogenicity, will affect the cell chromosomes and thus carcinogenic, teratogenic.
Buy pork must be in the regular store or supermarket, the surface covered with inspection and quarantine qualified chapter. Too thin pork do not buy, normal pork no matter how thin, there are some subcutaneous fat. In general, lean meat pork is relatively soft, less elastic, flesh is too bright red, healthy pork meat elasticity is good, color is mostly pink, no juice or less juice outflow.
Chili essence
Hot pepper is widely used in a variety of spicy food seasoning, but also restaurants, canteens, family standing seasoning, used directly for cooking seasoning. Chili pepper is a natural way to extract from natural raw pepper, isolated and refined from a natural spicy seasoning. Its active ingredients are capsaicin, protein, amino acids and carbohydrates, in addition to a small amount of chili red pigment.
Pepper is a hot pepper spicy substance concentrated products, pepper fine for the dark brown-like liquid, pure taste, extremely spicy. It can produce spicy lottery than natural pepper times many times. In the skin, mouth, respiratory and digestive tract damage, inflammation or ulcers in the state, do not eat foods containing chili essence.
Beef fine
Beef is popular because of its high nutritional value, but the price is often much more expensive than pork. Many businesses in order to pursue higher profits, tend to pork into beef to sell, how to fake really? The biggest helper is beef. Not only make meat more thick, but also make pork into beef flavor, if add some red pigment, the color is more like. In practice, some people will use the abrasive to pork chunks polished into the appearance of beef. "Beef" is a kind of flavor-added food additive, originally a kind of self-limited flavors and fragrances determined by the amount of food production. According to the packaging instructions, the normal dosage is 1% -2% of the finished product, but the business in order to pursue a higher profit margins, the amount of added is often excessive, for the health of the health will be harmful.
Creamer
Many stores with coffee creamer are free, creamer is what to do? Milk? Cream? You do not see "cream" in the "milk", take it for granted that it is done with milk. In fact, in the production process of creamer did not use a drop of milk or cream, it is in the vegetable oil add water, add a mixture of mixing, made of milk-like things. If you turn on milk tea or some coffee ingredients table, you will find the word "dairy creamer". One of the vegetable oils, more specifically hydrogenated vegetable oils, contains "trans fatty acids". Creamer eat more harmful to the body, long-term consumption is more likely to induce hardening of the arteries, increased risk of coronary heart disease, cancer, asthma and other diseases.
Milk and coffee can be said to be the hardest hit cream, if you want to stay away from creamer, in the purchase of these foods when it is best to open your food packaging, look at whether the ingredients contain dairy cream, so as not to inadvertently Let your body meet with milk cream.
Fritters
The fritters are a food additive that produces fritters without alum. General fritters refined into baking powder, salt and so on. The main components are: sodium bicarbonate, ammonium aluminum sulfate, calcium carbonate, calcium carbonate, calcium carbonate, calcium carbonate, calcium carbonate, calcium carbonate, Sodium carbonate and starch. Traditional fritters refined by the salt, alkali, alum three kinds of raw materials through the scientific ratio of mixed processing, commonly known as "old three" fritters formula. Street alley all over the fritters are sold. Fried fritters "concerns are mainly concerns about the safety of aluminum sulfate in the ingredients, fearing that the toxicity of aluminum will affect the health of the fritters as long as the maximum amount does not exceed the state, the human body will not have a negative impact, but if long Use, aluminum will accumulate in the body, aluminum damage to the nervous system will gradually appear, the long run, easy to suffer from nervous system diseases.
In the face of a variety of food additives can change the taste, we have to be rational treatment, and scientific use. For clenbuterol and other illegal additives, but also learn to distinguish, away from illegal additives, to avoid the potential health risks.