Cooking, Food & Wine

Chinese since ancient times, pay attention to color, flavor and taste, now restaurants in "color" attract customers willing to cut corners, using chemical pigment to color matching.

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"when some restaurants in sanhuang chickens, a large amount of pigment coating to the chicken skin above such as lemon, color looks attractive; in sweet and sour pork, pork and other traditional dishes, also are increasingly using chemical pigments to create color. "On April 10, Wang Zhixing lecturer of school of hotel management in Qingdao demonstrates four common dishes in the restaurant for journalists: three yellow chicken, sweet and sour pork, pork, sliced Lotus root with sweet sauce recipes and cooking methods of adding pigment of nature, one of the color contrast effect is obvious.

reporter at the Qingdao market surveys found that just a spice store you can buy different kinds of pigment, dedicated to cooking, a special pastry, and also add ice cream and beverages. "Hot dishes and cold dish is not the same, one is powder, the price is more expensive, but does it effect is better, for a variety of dishes, the other is solid, this inexpensive, suitable for hot dishes, cold but will have to set. "One of the Spice shop owner said.

most spice store owner to use chemical pigments of various colors are very familiar with: "if I do tianse to meat such as pork, use of red pigment from Orange, bright red; if three yellow pickle brine poultry such as chickens, use pigment lemon sth In short, the three-dimensional people, all kinds of colors. "

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reporters call adds color of food factory in Dongguan city understand specific components in bottled pigment. Other told reporters that an example of a bottle of lemon, which ingredient is the synthesis of pigment, water, glucose syrup, lemon potassium sorbic acid, glycerol, and xanthan gum and other ingredients. As regards the specific pigment content the other side said: "this is the secret cannot be disclosed. "As for the specific usage, each other directly," said the cooking in the kitchen master how to use, you may rely on it. "

food and drug administration staff member said:" the provisions of the State, cannot be added using the pigment in the restaurant. "But as to the specific penalties for the other side said it was not clear.

this reporter learned that, general use of pigment into natural pigment and pigment. Due to the nature of chemical pigment stability, staining effect is good, inexpensive, and many other advantages, so most of the common on the market are synthetic pigments. Its production is extracted from coal tar, or to aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene, toluene and naphthalene compounds for synthesis, the chemistry substance itself harmful, while produced in the synthesis process of impurities such as lead, arsenic, mercury, phenol, aniline, have different degrees of toxicity.