Misunderstanding and Misunderstanding of Food Addition

This year seems like a year of food safety. There have been successive occurrences of cadmium-contaminated rice, croakers such as sunset yellow, lean meat from pork and duck, formalin-bubbled hair, and Dyed yellow into a coarse-grained taro, fake beef and fragrant buns, pesticide beans, and so on. Most of these cases are attributed to the scourge of food additives, and food additives seem to have become a top priority for food safety. Many of these are misunderstandings about food additives. They have also increased consumers' worries about health damages. What is particularly urgent is how to eat the food of ordinary people in the face of such chaos.

â–  The contaminants, additives and illegal additives are each differently subdivided. There are several cases of these substances in the above foods:

Some are caused by food contamination. For example, cadmium pollutes the soil and is absorbed into rice.

Some of them are illegal food additives used illegally, such as sunset yellow and other pigments are legal food additives, but are not allowed to be used for yellow croaker and steamed buns; for example, fiery alkali can be used for food, but industrial grade fire alkali is not suitable for food additives. The use of regulations; as another sulfur dioxide can be used for wine, but the amount is limited, excessive use is a violation.

Some substances that are not allowed to be used in foods are illegally added to foods. For example, Rhodamine B, borax and formaldehyde (formalin) are not allowed as food additives, as long as the use is illegal.

There are also some illegal additions to the production of agricultural and sideline products, such as excessive use of excessive pesticides in the production of vegetables and fruits, addition of lean meat to pigs and ducks.

In addition, poppy hulls, dyed bird's nest, and waste oil are not only problems of food contamination and illegal addition, but also illicit issues such as fraud, fraud, and even drug-related problems.

â–  People are often deceived by the appearance and taste of food. Humans have a preference for the color and flavor of food. Therefore, various added substances in food, whether legal or illegal, often have a purpose: to improve the appearance and taste of food.

The legal food additives are first to ensure safety, and secondly to restore or improve the original quality of food as the principle of use. Adding pigments to orange juice, for example, corrects dark colors after industrial processing to make them more like fresh orange juice.

Although the illegally added substances of foods also have the effect of improving the quality of foods, these added substances usually have some safety hazards. Some of them even completely cover up the quality defects of the food itself, and even add due to spoilage. Or forgery, such as the quality of the fungus black, shoddy.

There are some situations that are improperly used. For example, pesticides permitted by the use of the country should be sprayed for a certain period of time before harvest, so that the residual pesticides will be degraded and discharged during the final life of the plant. However, this is not strictly followed in the field.

We do not have to worry about the legitimate use of food additives. And for those illegal cases, how much damage did consumers suffer from in addition to economic losses?

â–  Don't let illegal foods that have been ridden with red lights be scary. We are currently extremely sensitive to the illegal substances that appear in foods. We think that if you break the red light, you will surely have a traffic accident. It is not a collision with a car, it is a collision with a person. More inevitable. This is somewhat allergic. Whether or not our body is harmed depends on what we eat, how much we need to eat, and how long it takes to eat.

The poisoning of illegal substances can be divided into acute and chronic. In most cases, we eat only a limited amount and time. These substances are excreted before they have caused chronic damage. Acute poisoning is usually caused by a large number of short-term ingestions. Although there are few cases, due to the media's high level of concern, it is often felt that they often occur around them.

Some people have doubted that there are so many things that should not have appeared in food. When they eat in, can the body not suffer? This is indeed a problem, but even scientists have not been able to determine the real damage to this situation. For the harmful problems that have not yet been discovered, there are people who worry that the unknown damage is even more terrible. In fact, such unknown damage is usually small, so it cannot be proved by modern science and technology. Think about it again. There is so much unknown in the world that there is no need to worry about adding an extra psychological burden and the damage may be greater than those that are not known.

â–  Keep illegal food additives out of the table. Everyone wants to avoid eating these illegal substances completely. However, at home and abroad, including developed countries, there is no one hundred percent guarantee that they can only seek to reduce exposure to them while minimizing the possible health damage.

Therefore, first of all, when buying food, companies with high reputation and products provided by shopping malls should be selected. Although they are expensive, they dare not say a penny or a receipt, but the overall safety level must be higher; while the small traders provide Food, safety risk is greater.

Second, be extra cautious about foods that are unusual in color, smell and taste, because such foods are more likely to contain illegal substances.

Third, foods that do not feel at ease should not be eaten for a long time. They should eat different brands and varieties, reduce the chance of exposure to similar toxic and hazardous substances, and reduce the risk of such substances accumulating in the body to harmful levels.

Finally, we must say that our body is not fragile and that human beings are highly resistant and tolerant. The reason why we can evolve to today is because we have enough powerful and perfect capabilities to eliminate and eliminate Exotic toxic and harmful substances.