Cooking, Food & Wine

spread of food additives   Corporate checks are focused

colorant in the pickle, jelly in the preservative; an ice-cream with 16 food additive, a packet of instant noodles there are 14 species in Sth Recent 90% of foods containing additives, and lives in the "food additives" has more than 2000 species. Add either directly, or indirectly added, per adult per day probably eat into eighty or ninety additives. Currently, arbitrarily extending the scope of use of food additives, excessive use of food additives, illegal and non-edible substances added or a problem with the quality of food additives, has three main problems as food additives.

food additives are used to improve food quality and extend shelf life of food, a class of chemical synthetic or natural substances for food processing. Used to improve food color, smell, taste, and decay and meet the needs of processing technology. But some black heart enterprises, traders in troubled waters, in the name of additive, ruthless and devoid of human feelings, nevertheless the consumer. Melamine, belt, lime powder milk, Sudan red, dichlorvos sth These are enough to make people to wake up. At present, add a illegal and indiscriminate use of food additives, has become the largest food safety risks. Among them, have Chinese traditional concept of reason, of course, but more importantly interest.

this phenomenon in the seasoning also exists in the area, many manufacturers because raw material prices, shoddy work. Original production of wine with rice wine and spices, are use alcohol to the preparation, flavor instead of natural spices, add sweetener to hide the original juice such as lack of reducing sugar in wine, still more will join some of the chemical food additive for the preparation of products. And a large number of studies have shown that many modern disease of unknown cause associated with chemical food additives.

and caused food additives ills is not solutions of important causes is legal, and regulations lag, existing legal regulations cannot covers whole section food chain; sector duties does not Qing, existing food security supervision system take segment management mode, involves agricultural, and health, and quality, and business, more than 10 multiple sector; detection standard lag does not full, abroad technology standard of modify cycle General is 3-5 years, in China has more item belonging to "service" over 10 years.

only by laws or standards to solve the problem of food additives is a bit overwhelmed, the most important thing is that manufacturers can use "Subtract", "can be not added to add does not add, also had to add add to as little as possible". In Zhejiang, such as brewing company in the production of "old constant and" when cooking wine, only to "five-year Chen rice wine" wine base, together with the 15 kinds of spices which, without adding any (illicit) food additives. Preparation of its wine-based non-alcoholic, aging time for enough years; 15 kinds of natural spices to add flavor, texture of dishes in songnen plain, with aromatic taste of rich.

health health education experts, the people's Liberation Army General Hospital Nutrition Department Professor Zhao Lin proposed that scientific and rational application of chemical additives in food is a very complex knowledge; moral industry, food industry is also the project of conscience. Food additives should be shifted from development chemicals mainly dominated by natural products, take the road of ecological economy.