Correct understanding of food additives

    Food additives cannot be avoided, and now our lives are increasingly inseparable from food additives. When you wake up in the morning, if you have bread and milk on the table, it means that you have to eat more than 20 food additives.
    In ordinary daily life, almost all processed foods contain more or less food additives, some scholars have done statistics, a normal person, a day to eat nearly 100 kinds of food additives.
   Of course, you can choose to refuse these things, and then cook your own cooking at home, but the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar we usually use for cooking are also food additives, and in order to ensure the quality of these food additives, so that they can be stored for a long time, the manufacturer will add some other additives to color and quality.

   "Now it is not realistic to ask people to absolutely not eat food with food additives." Liu Haimei, dean of the School of Food Engineering, Luzhong University, said. Food additives are to add an appropriate amount of natural or synthetic substances to food to improve the color, aroma, taste, type of food, and enhance the preservation and storage capacity.

   Living in the present, we can not completely avoid food additives, so rather than fear it, it is better to understand and use it correctly.

   Dr. Liao Hongbo, an expert at the Standardization Institute of the Beijing Municipal Quality Supervision Bureau, said that in fact, the number and applicable amount of domestic food additives are less than many countries and regions. Taking flour whitening agent as an example, it is currently prohibited to use in our country, and the applicable amount of the previous regulation is 60mg/kg. In the United States, the whitening agent is not limited, and in Canada, the prescribed amount is 150mg/kg.