He knows the mystery of additives, the function and usage of various additives, and witnessed the "behind the scenes" of various food processing and production:
Dried radish, if soaked in additives for one night, will become a beautiful radish pickle in Huang Chengcheng. Crispy and delicious, everyone will think it's delicious.
Using 30 kinds of additives to make sticky waste meat into delicious "meatballs";
Everyone eats about 60 kinds of additives every day ...
Snacks, hamburgers, sausages, drinks, instant noodles ... Almost all kinds of commodities have been developed in ambs, and they are very popular.
He once wanted to create a new food culture through additives, but one thing changed his mind.
It was Abe's third birthday for his daughter, and the table was full of food prepared by his wife.
There is a plate with meatballs and cute Mickey Mouse toothpicks on it. He picked up one and threw it into his mouth, and suddenly he froze.
That's just his own "additive meatballs"!
The birth of additive meatballs
He knows exactly how this meatball is processed.
His factory purchased a lot of minced meat, that is, the part that can hardly be called meat, which is sticky and watery, and can't be eaten at all, so it can only be used as pet feed.
But it is very cheap. A businessman's job is to turn these inedible minced meat into something edible.
First, add the meat of chickens that can't lay eggs to increase the weight.
As we know, the meat of laying hens and broilers is very different, and the price is different. Moreover, chickens that can't lay eggs are used here, and the price is cheaper.
Next, add soy protein to make it feel soft. This soybean protein, also known as "artificial meat", is also used to make cheap hamburgers.
This alone is not enough, because there is no taste, so a lot of chemical seasonings are added.
In order to facilitate large-scale production by machines, adhesives, emulsifiers, etc. Often used;
In order to make the color look good, use colorants;
In order to prolong the shelf life, preservatives and PH regulators should be used.
To prevent fading, we have to rely on antioxidants.
Twenty or thirty kinds of additives are used in the whole production process of meatballs. It can be said that the final product is a kind of "additive similar to meatballs".
I feel sick at the thought of making these meatballs.
The most terrible thing is that my wife actually said, "This kind of meatballs is very cheap, and I often buy them. When they come out, the children will scramble to eat. "
Sure enough, his daughter and son are eating meatballs with relish. ...
This "god of food additives" never imagined that foods containing five poisons, such as sodium tripolyphosphate, fatty glyceride, calcium phosphate, red No.3, sorbic acid and caramel pigment, were processed by himself and even appeared on his own dining table, poisoning his children.
And tens of thousands of families who don't know the inside story still eat this kind of meatballs and foods containing various additives every day.
Food additives will not only harm children's developing bodies, but also destroy our food culture-the accumulated traditional crafts are abandoned, and the taste of fake goods is considered genuine.
Children who have lost their real sense of taste will think that food is easy to get, but they don't know how to be grateful and cherish everything in nature and the labor of others.
Why, children?
Always fascinated by cheap food?
As we all know, the nutrition and taste of fresh ingredients are the best, but many children just like cheap food with strong taste, such as cakes containing trans fatty acids, fried puffed food, beverages containing sweeteners and so on.
Children's love for cheap food is nothing more than the strong taste blended with various artificial additives.
Especially for sweets, the sweetness is more attractive to children than adults.
The study found that the preference for sweetness may be a kind of "learned behavior", that is, children who eat more processed foods in childhood will love sweets more when they grow up, and they will never get rid of their desire for processed foods.
Moreover, many American sweets contain synthetic pigments such as lemon yellow, sunset yellow, carmine and seduction red.
Studies have found that these pigments will accelerate the loss of zinc in children and increase the risk of ADHD, growth retardation, loss of appetite, mental retardation and other problems.
Moreover, we often see benzoic acid, potassium sorbate and nitrite in the food ingredient list.
Although we adults don't care about this at all, it is also very harmful to the baby in the critical period of growth and development.
Now all the mothers around us are a little "additive phobia", but many mothers think that food additives are difficult to distinguish and easy to step on. Here, I teach you two simple ways to distinguish.
0 1
Food additives = things that are not in the kitchen.
What is a food additive? To put it simply, everything that is not in the kitchen and unimaginable is food additive. Be careful when you meet them!
Just remember the formula "food additives = things not in the kitchen" and confirm them one by one.
Oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar are available in the kitchen, but pH regulator, glycine, pigment and sodium cyclamate are not available in the kitchen.
In this way, it is easy to know which additives are used in food and how many additives are used.
02
Have the spirit of "simple doubt"
"Why is this hamburger so cheap?" ?
"Why does this bagged salad never fade?" ?
"Why are naturally cultivated vegetables so uniform?"
Let it be deeply rooted in people's hearts.
If you think about it a little, you will find:
Hamburgers are cheap because additives reduce the cost of patties;
Vegetables will not wilt because chemical preservatives are sprayed;
These three kinds of carrots are identical in size, shape and color. Unless pesticides and fertilizers are used in large quantities, it is necessary to cultivate this "standard" carrot.
Therefore, mothers must keep their eyes open when choosing food for their children. Not only the price, but also the child's health.
Of course, this article is not to make people hate food additives, but to remind mothers that additives change color.
After all, knowing the ingredients in processed food can make better choices when buying food for children.