Why is Ming Liezi getting negative press?

Recently there has been a lot of negative news about Ming Lian Zi, suggesting that it contains a carcinogen called estragol. In response we took a closer look at estragol.

Estragol is a kind of volatile oil with special flavor, which exists in the volatile oil of flowers, leaves, fruits, stems and dried fruits (seeds) of many plants, and it is one of the most important active ingredients of Chinese herbal plants. Some of our daily consumption of cooking spices, such as fennel, anise and bay, etc. are wrapped with the volatile oil of the brain of Artemisia herbacea.

Once in 1981 JECFA organization's report, artemisia annua brain in the rodent test was suspected of carcinogenicity, but after a long time after the test and investigation, did not find that the substance further to the human body has any adverse effects, and no consumption of Mingle and produce adverse reactions to the case, to date, there is no country or regulations in the provisions of the restriction or prohibition of adding in the food containing the substance of the product. Products. Mingleberry has a large number of applications in medicine, pesticides, food additives and fine chemicals.

According to the understanding, there is a similar plant seeds with Mingleberry called chia seeds (chia seed), is a plant gorgonian European sage seeds, the two applications are similar, and chia seeds are full of 10 times, Mingleberry is full of 30 times, but due to the yield, transportation and other issues, chia seeds price is much higher than Mingleberry. In short, Minglezi is more effective and has a better price/performance ratio than Chiazi! The more intense commercial competition that has existed between these two products is probably one of the reasons for the prevalence of negative news about Minglezi.