Recently, Taiwan Province has been talking about the raw materials and ingredients of food. Recently, the famous bakery "Fat Man" was kicked out of the natural European bread labeled "no artificial flavor added". In fact, there are various artificial edible flavors in the manufacturing factory. Although it is not illegal to use artificial flavors, eating too many flavors will do great harm to the human body. Long-term and large-scale consumption will cause liver burden and even abnormal liver function. Natural bread without artificial additives will only have a faint aroma, not an unnatural aroma that is too strong. (Photo/)

Thousands of flavors are widely used to add flavor to food

In order to make a perfect dish, we must pay attention to "color, fragrance and taste", but sometimes excessive flavor is not necessarily a good thing, especially in modern cuisine, where there are more cooking methods and artificial additives are becoming more and more complicated. In order to attract consumers, more and more businesses use artificial flavors to enhance the flavor of food and create the illusion of strong delicacy.

All baked goods, such as bread, toast and biscuits, actually use artificial flavors to add flavor to the products. Xie Weizhen, an assistant professor in the Department of Catering at Taipei City University of Science and Technology, pointed out that after high-temperature baking, the natural aroma of many foods will naturally decrease a lot. Basically, the light taste is the most natural situation, but most consumers will feel that "the aroma is not enough" and suspect that there are not enough raw materials, so that manufacturers can compete to compare the aroma of products.

Long-term intake of essence is harmful to liver and kidney function

What customers care most about is that eating too much essence is harmful to health. The ingredients in artificial essence are a mixture of chemical pigments and various chemical additives. Although they are all edible chemical raw materials after inspection, eating too much will still cause a heavy burden to the liver and kidneys responsible for metabolism in the body.

how to judge whether there is essence?

Xie Weizhen also indicated, for example, that if materials such as dried longan are used, they can taste longan without essence. However, vegetables such as taro and pumpkin are light in taste, and when they are made into bread and other foods, they can only eat faint fragrance, which is normal.

If you find that the aroma of bread is too strong, even after it has been baked for a while, and the aroma of cold bread still hasn't faded, you should be careful. Maybe it contains a lot of essence. In addition to baked goods, beverages, sweets, snacks and other foods contain flavor crisis everywhere. It is suggested that it is best to choose unprocessed and natural foods as far as possible, avoid microwaves and ready-to-eat goods, and reduce the possibility of ingesting flavors.