1.Expiry date plus – preservatives
Preservatives are a kind of food additives to prevent food from spoiling and deteriorating, and the use of preservatives needs to be within the scope of safe use. With the increase of modern people’s awareness of health and healthy eating, preservatives have become a drug in food, people in the purchase of food has reached the degree of ‘talk about preservatives’. In fact, preservatives are necessary additives in many foods, is essential to preserving food ingredients, the normal dose of preservatives will not cause any harm to the human body. It can be said that preservatives terrible, no preservatives more terrible.
2.Visual additions – colourants
And food colouring agents play an important role in the colour of the product. Food colouring agents, also known as food colours, can be classified into two main categories, synthetic and natural, according to their source and nature. Are all colourants harmful to human health? Actually not, natural food colouring is generally harmless to human body, while synthetic food colouring is harmful to human body because it is easy to induce poisoning and even cancer, so it can not be used more or not used as much as possible. As in animal husbandry and aquaculture, due to the rapid growth of livestock, poultry, fish and shrimp, etc., the pigment accumulation is very little, pale, lose the attraction of consumers, the price is also low. At this time, the businessmen will use synthetic colouring agents to make the meat have a brighter luster, look fresher and improve the commerciality of the products. Therefore, when selecting products, we must pay attention to the appearance of the food is too uniform colour, learn to identify the business tactics.
3.Taste bud plus – sweeteners
Sweeteners are a class of food additives used more in our daily life, which can give food a sweet flavour and are more common in beverages. They can be divided into natural sweeteners and synthetic sweeteners. There are many kinds of sweeteners, the following is mainly introduced in our daily life often eat several kinds. (1) Sweetener. Sweetener is a kind of artificial sweetener, its sweetness is very high, the price is cheap, so it is widely used, most of the food we eat in our lives contain sweetener, sweetener itself a small amount of food on human health is not a threat, the main harm is the low quality of sweetener may be mixed with impurities chlorine. (2) Aspartame. In soft drinks, candy and other foods, we can find its traces. Normal consumption in small quantities has almost no effect on the human body, but eating it in large quantities over a long period of time can damage the nervous system, which can lead to low immunity, induce brain tumours and other risks. If you’re a snacker and want to work up an appetite as you go, but also want to be healthy, consider the following sweeteners. Stevia, Rohypnol, Xylitol, etc. They are all relatively safe and healthy natural sweeteners. But no matter how healthy the sweeteners are promoted by the business, we should keep the dosage in order to be truly healthy.
4.Flavour Plus – Enzymes
Enzyme preparations have a wide range of uses, mainly as pharmaceutical intermediates, food processing additives and growth promoters for livestock and poultry breeding. The largest amount of enzyme preparations are amylase and protease. Amylase is mainly used in bread production in the dough improvement, baby food in the pretreatment of cereal raw materials, beer manufacturing for saccharification and decomposition of starch, fruit juice processing starch decomposition and improve the filtration rate, as well as for vegetables, syrup, caramel, glucose, powder dextrin and other food processing and manufacturing.From everyday cleaning to cutting-edge biomedicine, their applications are expanding, with particular potential to drive green industry (e.g., reducing chemical pollution) and precision medicine.. In recent years, the field of enzyme development and application is still expanding. Enzyme preparation industry is a high-tech industry, which is characterised by low dosage, high catalytic efficiency, strong specialisation, and is an industry serving other related industries. Its application fields are all over the light industry, food, chemical industry, medicine, agriculture, as well as energy, environmental protection and so on.