Food truth-you have to know

Well, it seems that this year's pursuit of pure nature is not a mistake, just like mm, a mess in the face of a pile of cosmetics, it looks good, but after washing your face ...... Is the development of science a result of social progress or regression?

Ambu, who has been engaged in marketing food additives for more than 20 years, is known as "active Dictionary of additives" and "God of food additives ". He is not only familiar with the functions and usage of various additives, but also witnessed the "behind the scenes" of food processing and production ".

Today, I want to give you a lecture on food additives. Before talking about it, I will give you a bowl of pork ribs. Please see, there are some white powders in the bottles in front of me. I want to mix the powders in these dozens of bottles, pour them in, and stir them. Okay! Pork ribs soup is complete! Who would like to taste it? Don't be afraid! Ask this brave man.

"Ah, it's really pork ribs. Really nice to drink !"

How are you doing? This is the soup that you usually eat ramen! As you can see, I didn't even use a rib or a drop of real ribs when I made the ribs soup. I just used the white powder in these bottles, and people who have tasted it all think it tastes good. These white powders are the food additives I will talk about below.

Many of us do not know how our food is processed. You think that the ramen slice is made of pork ribs. You think that all the colorful juice drinks are made of fruit juice, you think that the milk added when drinking coffee is made of milk ...... The truth is, what you see in your eyes and what your mouth tastes are not true. The beautiful colors and attractive tastes can all be changed from additives.

Meatballs are pills-like additives"

I used to be the chief Salesman of the food additives Company, with outstanding performance. I often solve problems for various food processing plants and help them make good products at the lowest cost. For example, a kind of meatballs I developed. A vendor purchases a large amount of meat, that is, the meat that is almost not called the meat that has been removed from the bones of the ox. It is pasted with a lot of water and has no taste at all. It cannot be eaten and cannot be made into meat, it can only be used as pet feed. However, it is very cheap. My job is to turn the meat that cannot be eaten into something that can be eaten.

First, add chicken meat that cannot be egressed to increase the weight. We know that the chickens that are being farmed have layers and broilers. Broilers mainly eat meat, while laying hens mainly eat eggs.

The meat and prices of laying hens and broilers are quite different. In addition, the chicken that can no longer be used here is cheaper.

Then, add soy protein to make it soft. This soy protein, also known as "artificial meat", is also used to make cheap hamburgers.

This is not the case, because it has no taste. Therefore, a large number of chemical condiments were added.

In order to make the taste smooth and tender, lard and starch are used. In order to facilitate the batch production of machines, adhesive and emulsifier are used. In order to make the color look good, colorant is used. In order to prolong the shelf life, preservatives and pH adjusting agents were used. Antioxidants were used to prevent fading.

In this way, meatballs are ready. The whole process uses 20 or 30 kinds of additives, which can be said to be "ball-like additives ". After the product is listed, it is immediately welcomed by children and mothers.

Here, I want to say that all the additives I use are permitted by the State and fully comply with the prescribed dose standards. But what are the problems? That is, the national test results for additives are only obtained based on the use of a single type of additives. If a single uptake of several kinds of additives at the same time, the study of "Compound uptake" is still a blind spot.

That is to say, whether or not many kinds of additives are dangerous or dangerous at the same time can only be borne by consumers who feed them into their mouths.

Why am I standing here to talk about these things? Because one day, I saw my daughter eating this kind of meatballs I developed with pleasure. When I saw her eat, I realized that I didn't want my children to eat them. I know the toxicity of additives, but I have never considered it from the actual situation. I have been busy developing various foods with additives. At that moment, I recognized the food I developed, the paste of waste meat and dozens of kinds of meat pills made by adding agents are also to be eaten by my family and my children. My heart is full of guilt.

After reflection, I quit my job as a food additives salesman. I want to use my decades of experience behind the scenes to tell you the truth about some foods.

Milk is "milk-Type Vegetable Oil"

Let's talk about milk. In many stores, coffee-related creden are free of charge. I often see that when someone leaves, they can pick up several items and keep them for use at home.

Now, I want to ask you: what do you think is the use of milk? Milk? Cream?

If you don't see "milk" in "milk essence", you simply think it is made of milk. As a matter of fact, just like I made ribs soup before, I didn't use a drop of milk or cream in the process of making milk essence. It is a kind of milk that is made by adding water and additives to the vegetable oil.

The vegetable oil, more specifically, is the hydrogen vegetable oil, containing "trans fatty acids ". Trans fatty acids are unhealthy components, which damage the heart much more than any animal oil. All foods containing hydrogenated vegetable oil may contain trans fatty acids, such as biscuits, breads, Western cakes, chocolate pies, salad dressing, french fries, fried chicken nuggets, onion rings, coffee companion, and hot chocolate. However, there are many trans fatty acid names, general ingredients are marked with "hydrogenated vegetable oil", "plant shortening oil", "artificial butter", "artificial cream", "plant cream", "wheat bread", "shortening oil", or "vegetable dressing", all contain trans fatty acids.

As we all know, in normal conditions, water and oil cannot be mutually soluble. This requires the use of additives.

First, use an emulsifier, which is an interface active agent that can mix oil and water together, emulsion imaging the same white milk.

However, it is not as thick as milk, so it needs to be made of thickening and polysaccharide.

Then we need to use the caramel color and dye it into a very light brown color, which looks like a cream color.

To save the data for a long time, you must add a pH regulator.

In addition, you can add spices with cream flavor.

Therefore, milk is made of "milk-Type Vegetable Oil" made of water, oil and a number of additives ". You just need to look at the milk concentrate ingredient table at a glance.

Fruit juice drinks "no juice"

I used to make "juice-free" juice drinks for children in kindergarten.

This is what lemon drinks do.

First, the yellow 4 is dissolved in water and becomes a very beautiful lemon color. Then, add the acid, vitamin C and citric acid. Then, inject a large amount of fruit syrup. In this way, it becomes sour and sweet.

In addition, lemon juice is needed to add Lemon spices.

Finally, cellulose powder is added. Cellulose is an additive made of SAW chips. The turbid color creates the feeling of real juice.

If you make a melon drink, the melon is green. Then, add the Blue 1 colorant in the water and dye the water into pure blue. Then add the yellow 4 colorant, and the water becomes pure green. Both colors are extracted from oil.

The orange used for orange juice drinks is extracted after the insects are crushed.

I poured the "adjusted" beverage into the cup and asked everyone "do you want to drink?" The children all looked at each other.

However, the usual drinks are made in this way.

In the past, sugar was added to the drink, but sugar was too sweet. Children did not like it. So now it's replaced with fructose syrup. Its sweetness is refreshing, and children like it.

But there is a fear in the syrup. That is the problem of excessive heat intake.

Glucose and fructose are the main ingredients of fructose. Glucose is the most basic energy source of the human body. when the body is weak, glucose and other nutrients are most needed.

However, the glucose concentration in the drip drops is less than 0.5%. The "fruit juice without juice" produced by the powder just introduced contains more than 500 ml of the fruit syrup. That is to say, more than 500 ml of the most common drinks are sugar ). If it is converted to solid powder, it contains more than 25 grams of glucose and more than 20 grams of fructose, which will be full on the plate.

In addition, people will not feel full after drinking a drink rich in Portuguese syrup, and they will still want to eat the same food as they did before.

A bottle of (500 ml) drinks contains equivalent to 50 grams of sugar containing heat, that is, 200 thousand calories (half-bag Potato chips containing ). However, people think it is the same as they did not drink it! Obviously, it will lead to excessive heat intake.

Scientific experiments have proved that regular drinking of refreshing drinks may promote the occurrence of diabetes. A US-based follow-up study shows that the likelihood of overweight is increased by 60% if each child drinks an average of 1 can of carbonated drinks a day.

In recent years, obesity and diabetes have seen a significant increase in the number of primary and secondary school students.

The taste of many foods we like is actually the taste of additives. Food Processing information has not been made public. Most people believe that "first-class manufacturers can make things right" and "The things sold in large supermarkets will not be wrong ", it's really sad that our tongue is being damaged by food additives.

100 kg pork can make 130 kg ham

Everyone must be surprised: How can 100 kg ham be made with 130 kg pork?

However, if I don't ask, you may not pay attention to and compare it when buying HAM: What is the extra 30 kg?

Is the viscosity material used to increase the weight.

The most convenient way to increase the weight is to add "water ". Therefore, there is a saying in the food industry that "Water-injected ham. This is a tactic used to survive the price war.

However, if water is directly added, the meat will become thinner. Therefore, it is necessary to use a gel that will harden after heating.

With more than 100 syringes injected into the pork with specialized glue-like liquid at the same time, the scene will not be forgotten once, so surprising.

The next step is to roll the glue injected into the pork evenly to the meat tissue. The injected meat gel is equivalent to 20%-30% of the total weight of the meat. After kneading, the meat becomes bulging, and then after forming, heating, and other procedures, it will eventually become the ham sold on the market.

Other additives must be injected to maintain the color and elasticity of the added part.

The price of water-filled ham is very low. Most of the ham at supermarket promotions belong to this type.

Before you are delighted to put special items in the shopping basket, please take a look at the product ingredients table and think about it. Originally, Ham should have been made of pork. Why do soy protein, egg, milk protein and other ingredients be used?

Without comparison, we will go straight to the special offer. Is it really a smart consumer?

"Healthy" bleaching Root

One time, a vendor found me and he entered a large number of roles. We all know that lotus root has high nutritional value and is a healthy food. However, the lotus root he bought is very cheap, and its appearance is black. He doesn't know what to do. Ask for help.

In this case, everything can be solved by using additives.

Use bleaching agent to bleaching the roots and add some additives to prevent discoloration. Then, pack the lotus root into the bag for vacuum packaging.

After packaging, the vendor immediately sent the goods to the supermarket for sale. As a result, a new problem occurs. Lotus root from the edge began to rot, some paste, some turn yellow, some turn black, what have. The supermarket claimed for him and asked me for help.

I told him that it was because he had not heated the vacuum bag for sterilization and the temperature was enough. As long as the heating and disinfection process is strictly controlled, there is no problem. After this method was followed, the supermarket never looked for him again, and his roots became "Healthy Food" for sale.

"Healthy" sterile salad

Many office ladies buy bagged salads for lunch for good. Also, housewives often make vegetable salad at home and cut the vegetables sold in supermarkets. It is not only because the cutting effort is saved, but also because the cutting area does not crash at any time and can be saved for a long time.

Why can the chopped vegetables and bagged salads be preserved for a long time?

Because they all use fungicides (sub-sodium chloride) to eliminate viruses. The disinfection site is terrible.

The workers keep throwing cut vegetables into the sterilization pool. In addition, we need to constantly change the concentration of fungicides in the pool and throw the vegetables several times. Some manufacturers also throw vegetables into a pool containing a pH regulator to make the taste crisp.

Everyone eats salads in bags for good health. How ridiculous!

"Healthy" color sugar

The nutritional value of brown sugar and refined sugar is not much different, but since some people say that "refined sugar is not good for people, brown sugar is good", brown sugar has started selling well.

How is the manufacturer doing it?

They used refined sugar for sale after caramel coloring. Because the outer layer is only dyed, when the colored sugar is soaked in the water, the color of the appearance will first dissolve.