Additives are almost omnipresent in our diet. From daily necessities to snacks, you will see the shadow of additives more or less. A netizen from Shandong once conducted an experiment. While buying food outside, he ate about 177 additives of names a day, which was summarized into

additives are almost omnipresent in our diet. From daily necessities to snacks, you will see the shadow of additives more or less.

A netizen from Shandong once conducted an experiment. While buying food outside, he ate about 177 additives of names a day, which is summarized into more than 90 categories.

alone toast bread contains:

(blueberry fruit sauce, malt syrup , butter, food additives, methyl fiber, citrate , compound pigment, potassium sorbate , drillitol liquid, yeast , glycerol , emulsifier preparation, sodium hydroacetate, edible flavor, calcium propionate , fixed powder magnetite, food flavor, margarine, oxidase, amylase, compound emulsifier, glycerine bisstearate, fatty acid esters, bread preservative emulsifier, diacetyl tartaric acid monowhite oil, starch phosphate, methyl fiber).

Seeing these names, are you too big? Why do manufacturers add so many additives? To put it simply, consumers and relevant departments are used to it.

Let me talk about consumer

If you think that all additives are for increasing shelf life and reducing costs, it is a big mistake. Many additives not only increase costs, but also harm the body. Let’s put it this way, more than 90% of the additives on the market are for improving taste, maintaining shape and matching colors.

Consumers have to pay for these additional products that harm the body. Since these additives not only increase costs but also harm the body, why are merchants still so persistent in adding them?

To give the simplest example, even if two braised meat shops use the same meat, the flavor of the store with additives will become richer, the color will be more attractive, and the business will naturally be better. According to my observation, the additives directly used in the catering industry include, but are not limited to:

meat dumplings, meat fragrant king , chicken bone marrow cream, pork bone marrow extract, beef treasure, mutton treasure, maltol , spice A... The braised meat shop that does not add additives will gradually be eliminated by the market.

There is another example. Someone went to Europe to drink foreign milk for the first time, which was so unpalatable. It was fishy and greasy and difficult to swallow. The price was not cheap. It was just a fool. It was still the domestic additive milk.

In fact, in the competitive atmosphere of domestic additives, we have gradually not known what the real milk tastes.

Most people have a habit. The first thing they want to choose food is the price and taste. What we discuss most about diet is which restaurant is delicious and which food is affordable. As for who has puts how many additives, not many people care in reality.

Slowly, the diet market has formed a deformed competition, and taste and price have become the first factors. As for other things, it is enough.

And our consumers are also happy to enjoy such competitive consequences. Whoever has a cheaper house will be a conscientious business, and whoever has a delicious house will have a good business. On the other hand, if anyone sells it more expensive, it is a capitalist who cheats people. This is the most obvious example of bad money driving out good money.

Of course, this phenomenon has a lot to do with our slackness in publicity and guidance and vague standards and customization. This has caused many consumers to not pay attention to or understand the harm of additives. Chinese people have been taking additives for half their lives, and some people don’t even know the chemical name sodium benzoate .

In contrast, Europe and Japan are very rigorous in guiding the popularization of food safety. In 2017, a flavoured black bean was found to contain a variety of hazardous substances, such as mineral oil, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, , plasticizers, etc. Of course, these substances do not exceed the standard according to the prescribed standards, but Germany repeatedly reminded the public to reduce the intake of such harmful substances and allow Chinese people to reduce their purchases.

Japan is also the same. Although additives such as sodium benzoate are legal in Japan, which company has added them and will repeatedly report and remind the public of the harm to the body, which eventually leads to the extinction of manufacturers of such additives in Japan.

Although the dosage of these additives in a food meets normal standards, and harmful substances can also be excreted through normal metabolism after consumption, when you are surrounded by additive foods, these additives are superimposed on each other, can your body still metabolize them?

Imagine a scene where you cooked a bag of quick-frozen dumplings of sodium carbonate , dipped in soy sauce and vinegar, drank a cup of milk of sodium methyl cellulose, applied sodium benzoate cosmetics, took sodium starch medicine, and took a sodium benzoate cigarette, drank a cup of chloropropanol wine, and looked at myself who was getting haggard in the mirror and was puzzled.

Finally, I think that it is urgent to popularize food safety knowledge and standardize the use of additives. Only health is the foundation of the country, and everything else is false. Don't really be like the joke says, if some people fall down, it's a periodic table .