A friend who runs a restaurant told me that the roadside queue of 800 meters of the fire fried rice fried noodles hall, if you eat up especially fragrant, eat once a day still think about eating every day, you must be careful, the reason may be that the boss used ethyl maltol !
China is a country with 5000 years of history, in our up and down 5000 years of history, the shadow of the food has been through our side.
And it's human nature to love food, and ever since the Flintstones drilled wood for fire and humans learned to cook with fire, there have been more and more variations on food.
The life of ancient people was also colorful, compared to the modern people who have seen a lot, the ancient specialties of food is more contemporary people drool.
For example, in the Qin Dynasty, which had the first emperor in history, there were many types of steamed buns, and the most famous steamed buns were known for their color and flavor.
And not only the steamed bread, the Qin Dynasty already had a noodle, according to the historical data handed down, the Qin Dynasty noodles are Qishan bashful noodles, Fufeng salivary noodles, Linyou blood noodles and so on.
And this is only a single Qin Dynasty cuisine, wait until the world's first economic Tang Dynasty, the market food into the wontons, dumplings, cherry Biluo (baked cake with vegetables) baked hump and so on.
At present, the food handed down from the ancient times can still be seen in the golden milk cake, crystal dragon and phoenix cake, longevity congee, Jade Emperor and Queen Mother rice, Jade Dew Dumplings, eight cold food cakes, and so on.
In ancient times, there were so many different kinds of food that it was impossible to count them all, and many street food made many poets excited.
Su Shi, the most famous poet of the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem that said: "Longzhuan has bear wax, Qin cooks only mutton soup," which refers to the mutton steamed buns of the Song Dynasty.
Although the ancient food is not scarce than the modern, but the ancient food, there is a very big shortcomings, that is, not enough seasoning.
Seasonings were called spices at the time, and they were a very expensive ingredient that ordinary people simply did not have the resources to enjoy, which resulted in many ancient street food relying on the freshness of the ingredients themselves!
Today, time has come to the modern era, with the popularization of the Internet and the development of science and technology, modern people are more knowledgeable about food.
Compared to the ancient times, the modern life of the people in the former palace aristocrats also envied, we get off work every day, only need to spend a few hundred dollars, you can taste the food from the south and north of the mountain.
As for the young people, they are particularly fond of those street snacks, skewers, spicy hot pot, tofu brain, adz chicken, Hong Kong-style turnip cake, Guangdong barbecue, donkey rolls, etc.
Every day, we have to spend hundreds of dollars to enjoy the delicious food.
Every day when we eat a mouthful of oil satisfied, always feel that life is now good, but when we enjoy the food, we always feel that the restaurant's food than home to do their own incense much more!
This inevitably makes many friends have questions, in fact, many restaurant food is fried by professional masters, we ordinary people's skills are not up to standard, certainly not as good as the restaurant.
But when I have nothing to do and do catering friends chatting, in passing, the issue raised, I did not expect friends told me that the restaurant food is very fragrant nothing wrong!
But if a roadside fried rice and fried noodles stalls, daily business needs to line up 800 meters of queue to buy once, and after you eat, every day, you still think about going to eat, then you must be careful!
I was a little strange, did not think my friend next explained to me the reason, instantly let me some heart attack, the original such vendors may have used ethyl maltol!
So what is ethyl maltol? In addition to these fried rice and noodles are very fragrant, what other things will be used? Will these things be harmful to the human body?
Now let me tell you the answer to this question.
What is ethyl maltol?At the moment the name (ethyl maltol) alone would give us the impression of seeing a drug, but it is actually a food additive!
Ethyl maltol is an analog of maltol (or methyl maltol), which is obtained by replacing the methyl group in the maltol molecule with an ethyl group.
Both are flavors that closely resemble the taste of caramel, are essential ingredients in some complex flavor notes, and are commonly used to make a wide range of fruit flavors.
Ethyl maltol from the appearance, it is a white powder needle or zero crystalline monomer spice, pick up and smell will have a slight fruity caramel aroma.
And ethyl maltol has a variety of roles, in addition to can be used to flavor food and beverages and brewing alcoholic food, it can also be used in cosmetics and fishing use!
That's right! The role of ethyl malt phenol is so broad that many people who like to fish do not know its role, in fact, in the eyes of many fishing enthusiasts called "fragrant tiger", is a particularly good fishing aids!
In addition to this ethyl maltol, in the use of food, as long as the trace additions, the effect will be particularly significant, it will be very good for the sweet taste of food will have a very good gain effect, but also let the food shelf life extended!
Ethyl malt phenol in food performance
The above has introduced what is ethyl malt phenol, and ethyl malt phenol why people eat after a long aftertaste, it is necessary to illustrate through the following points:
The first point: ethyl malt phenol will have a flavor effect!
As a housewife who often cooks at home, I often add a variety of chicken MSG and so on in five years of dishes, these seasonings will make the food more delicious, but also make us appetite.
Compared to chicken essence, MSG, these common seasonings, ethyl maltol is obviously not suitable for home use, and it is used in the most industrial use of the scene!
We are now in a position where we can find trace amounts of ethyl maltol in vacuum-packed foods, such as meat, eggs, and milk, produced by major food factories.
And as long as the manufacturer in the production of good food to add some ethyl maltol, if it is meat products, will increase the meat flavor, so that meat products can effectively extend the shelf life.
Ethyl malt phenol, if added to all kinds of drinks in the raw materials, such as the production of finished products, it will improve the fruity flavor of the drink.
The second: the performance of ethyl maltol placed in various foods!
Ethyl malt phenol as a food additive, its safety can be assured, so far, it is almost no little side effects.
And ethyl malt phenol in different foods to give us a different taste, to name a few examples:
①: ethyl malt phenol in yogurt, it can improve the flavor of yogurt, reduce the sourness, increase the sweetness, and increase the fruity flavor.
②: Ethyl malt phenol put in ice cream, it will increase the ice cream low fat and low calorie, and make ice cream cream cream flavor.
③:Ethyl malt phenol put in bread, it can make the bread inside the filling flavor, become very sweet.
④: Ethyl malt phenol put in meat products, it will make the meat color bright, delay fat oxidation, and make the meat flavor more intense.
What happens when you put ethyl malt phenol in fried noodles and rice?First of all, according to the "food additives use of health standards" in the "GB2760-2007" provisions, ethyl maltol is an artificial flavor, it is only suitable for the preparation of food flavors, can not be added directly into the food!
And if there is really bad business must be put into, then put in front of our customers, it will make us feel after eating this fried noodles fried rice especially fragrant!
After eating, there will be a feeling of unfulfilled, and at the same time, after eating once, we can not help but eat in the heart every day, and every time after eating, it will be eaten with ethyl malt phenol people with a fragrance, this fragrance will be a few days can not be dissipated!
And according to GB2760 "Food Additives Use Standard" in the instructions: ethyl malt phenol if added to fresh dishes, long-term consumption will have an impact on the human liver.
Bones and joints will also be early metamorphosis, extremely easy to cause cancer and other diseases, severe may also lead to headaches, nausea, vomiting, breathing difficulties, and even damage to the liver and kidneys, there will be a great harm to the human body!
And a lot of bad business will deliberately dilute the dose of ethyl maltol, try to control the damage to the human body, but the consumer if you eat every day, there will be the above problem!
Write in the end :
And that's why some of the food in the restaurant food more delicious secret, in fact, this delicious behind are a variety of additives!
In the market if you want to improve the freshness of the flavor of a certain food, in addition to ethyl maltol, in the catering industry is also rumored to be a 3A flavor powder!
Of course as a blogger I'm not saying that these additives are bad, after all, these additives, since they passed the food quality inspection, it means that they are qualified products.
And many additives have strict instructions for use, and regular manufacturers will follow the instructions for use of additives to adjust the ratio strictly.
And some unscrupulous merchants are the exact opposite, he or she will intentionally flavor the instructions for the benefit of the additives that can not be put directly into the fresh dishes, but also put into it!
It is this kind of behavior that makes us the main reason for the food safety is not assured, and according to the "Chinese People's **** and the State Food Safety Law", the 26th day of the second and 34th article of the first small article stipulates that:
Varieties of food additives to use the scope and amount of food additives will have a strict regulation.
The scope of use and dosage of food additives will be strictly regulated, and food produced with non-food raw materials or chemical substances other than additives and other substances that may be hazardous to human health, or food produced with recycled food as raw materials.
If you violate the above provisions, are illegal, will be severely punished by the law, how do you think? Welcome to leave a message to discuss and forward.