Can gold foil be eaten or digested? In recent years, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the "wind of eating gold" has revived. At present, eating gold foil has become a common phenomenon in Japan and Southeast Asian countries. Can gold foil be eaten or digested?
Can gold foil be eaten or digested? 1 As we all know, gold is a heavy metal. Although it is one of the extremely stable metals, swallowing gold directly will also lead to death, but not because of poisoning. In fact, it does not react with human digestive juice, so gold that is too stable cannot be metabolized, leading to blockage of digestive tract or damage of internal organs, resulting in human death.
Now, because the food is very diverse, you can usually see many novel foods. For example, many foods in some restaurants now contain "gold", but it is not a real lump of gold. In fact, it is an edible and digestible gold foil made of gold.
So the gold foil used in high-end restaurants will affect your health if you eat it?
In fact, in 1983, WHO Codex Committee on Food Additives has some regulations that gold can be used as a food additive, and the Ministry of Health of China has also approved that gold foil can be eaten as long as it meets the standards.
But why is gold foil edible? This aspect is mainly because the amount of edible gold foil is very small, which will not choke the human body and cause poisoning when ingested. After ingesting such a small amount of gold foil, it is easy to metabolize and will not block the digestive tract.
However, although eating gold foil is very safe, even if it is eaten into the human body, it will not threaten people's lives, but everyone should not eat more, because eating gold foil is also a burden, because food containing gold foil is a bit expensive and will make people poor.
Edible gold foil is indigestible. In order to avoid heavy metals and toxic substances in the manufacturing process, the purity of gold foil as food must be as high as 99.99%. Different from gold rings, gold necklaces and ordinary gold foils, edible gold foils evaporate pure gold with its own concentration as high as 99.99% into uniformly arranged small molecules, and then rearrange these molecules to form edible gold foils that can be used as food additives, or "nano-gold". The gold foil made in this way avoids the pollution of heavy metals and chemical solvents brought by the traditional smelting process, and the thickness can reach only 20-30nm. As an inert metal, pure gold does not react in human body. Therefore, the edible gold foil eaten will be discharged intact and will not be absorbed, so it has no stimulation to the body and no toxicity.
Edible gold foil Edible gold foil can be added to wine, cakes, cakes, coffee, tea, hot pot, cooking, condiments, cosmetics and bathing agents to improve the quality of goods, show luxury and increase the festive atmosphere. China is the first place to eat gold in history. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, the rich in China had records of eating gold foil and powder. In modern times, eating gold foil is also very popular in Japan and Southeast Asia. 1983, the Codex Committee of Food Additives of the World Health Organization officially listed 9,999 natural pure gold in the category of food additives and named it Tabeano. 3 10. Edible gold foil, its thickness is only one ten thousandth of a millimeter, and ordinary people have no idea about this thickness. As a metal itself, it is opaque, but the edible gold foil is so thin that it is transparent to light that it can be described as thin as a cicada's wing.
Can gold foil be eaten or digested? Gold foil chocolate, gold foil ice cream, gold foil cake ...
For reasons of beauty and gimmicks, it is suddenly popular to add gold foil to food. So is gold foil edible? Is it legal to add gold foil to food?
Case introduction
202 1 August 12, Changning District Market Supervision Bureau found1bottle of gold foil that had been opened and was in use on the counter of the kitchen raw food business. After investigation, the parties concerned bought two bottles of gold foil from a store on Taobao on May 30th, 20021year, and added and used gold foil as food raw material in the dishes of "Roast Beef Sushi" from June 2nd, 20021year, and sold it at the price of RMB per 48 yuan. From June 2nd, 2002/KLOC-0 to the time of the crime, the client * * * made and sold 22 copies of "Roasted Beef Sushi"/KLOC-0, the sales amount was RMB 5,856, and the illegal income was RMB 5,856.
On-site inspection picture
Legal analysis
Gold foil is neither a raw material for food production nor a food additive, so it is forbidden to be added to food. The act of using gold foil to produce and market food violates the prohibition of producing and marketing the following foods, food additives and food-related products in the first paragraph of Article 34 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Food Safety Law: (1) Foods produced with non-food raw materials or foods with chemicals other than food additives and other substances that may endanger human health, or foods produced with recycled foods as raw materials.
According to Item (1) of Paragraph 1 of Article 123 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Food Safety Law, Changning District Market Supervision Bureau imposed administrative punishment on the parties concerned according to law.
Consumer tips
Gold foil was banned from eating by the former Ministry of Health as early as 200 1. Therefore, when eating out, consumers should strengthen their awareness of self-protection, be alert to food safety risks, and don't eat risky or unfamiliar foods, especially those prohibited by the state. If gold foil or other unknown substances are found in food, they should stop eating immediately and report the situation to the market supervision department.
Can gold foil be eaten or digested? Recently, a restaurant in Shanghai was punished for adding gold foil to sushi. It is forbidden to add gold foil to food.
The Shanghai Market Supervision Bureau issued a warning case, after the Changning District Market Supervision Bureau inspected a catering enterprise in its jurisdiction and found that it used gold foil as food raw material, added it and used it to make "roast beef sushi" and sold it in 48 yuan.
The bottled gold foil on the raw food bar in the kitchen was bought from Taobao shop.
Party * * * produced and sold gold foil "Roast Beef Sushi" 122 copies, and the sales amount was RMB 5,856, which was illegal income. According to the Food Safety Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), gold foil is not a raw material for food production, nor can it be used as a food additive, so it is forbidden to be added to food.
Changning District Market Supervision Bureau imposed administrative punishment on the parties according to law. In fact, gold foil was banned from eating by the former Ministry of Health as early as 200 1.
As far as gold ornaments are concerned, everyone basically knows, but have you ever heard of gold food? Since the Tang Dynasty, we in China have mastered the health care and diagnosis functions of gold rush for a long time. Li Shizhen recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Eating gold can soothe the nerves, strengthen the bone marrow, benefit the five internal organs, eliminate phlegm and relieve exterior symptoms, and serve the gods. Especially the golden paper in the meatballs, break the air conditioner to remove the wind. "
In recent years, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the trend of "eating gold foil" has begun again. At present, eating gold foil has become a common phenomenon in Japan and Southeast Asian countries. Gold paper dinners, gold foil wine bottles, gold paper candy, gold foil water and gold foil snacks have become high-end hot items in the market. According to incomplete data analysis, there are 3 1 enterprises producing gold foil wine in China, which shows that "eating gold" is not conducive to health preservation, but has become a real identity. Some experts and professors analyzed that as people pay more and more attention to health, "food money" is not only a problem for high-end consumers, but is likely to be generally accepted by "middle class in China".