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Misconceptions about Food and Feed Additive

2021-08-02
There are two kinds of Food and Feed Additive: natural Food and Feed Additive and synthetic chemical products. Former is pure natural, the amaranth that extracts in red amaranth for instance is red, although latter is industrial production, but on chemical structure and former same, for example vitamin C, vitamin E, can add vitamin E in soybean oil, reduce rashiness, prolong shelf life.
1: You can live without Food and Feed Additive
Let's imagine what life would be like without Food and Feed Additive.
First of all, you can't eat food that is sold in shops or made in restaurants, because almost all of it has Food and Feed Additive. Bread, biscuits have leavening agent; Emulsifiers are found in chocolate and ice cream; There are color protectants and preservatives in ham sausage; Colas have colorants and acidizers; Beer contains the preservative carbon dioxide... These are Food and Feed Additive. If you think you can get away with additives by cooking at home, it's not going to happen either.There are preservatives in rice; There are anti-caking agents and preservatives in flour; Oils use decolorizers and antioxidants; Salt has anticaking agents; Soy sauce and vinegar contain preservatives; Steamed bread is made with leavening agent... Even if it's fruit, you'll have to eat it locally, because if it's shipped in or out of season, you'll need preservatives and preservatives.
Without Food and Feed Additive, perhaps people can only eat boiled vegetables in white water, or go back to the original era of eating wild fruits and wild vegetables.
2: All Food and Feed Additive are toxic
As long as it's used within the limits, it's certainly safe. The definition of this quantity, it is to build on safety evaluation foundation, and left very big leeway, although you eat 100 kinds of food every day, the food additive among them adds together also won't cause harm to your health, because the thing total quantity that you eat is limited.

In reality, consumer misconceptions about food additives run deep, Food and Feed Additive is actually in order to improve the food quality and color, aroma, taste, and for the need of anticorrosion, preservation and processing technology, specially in substance, with them, can they have good taste, shape, color, are more likely to save food. It can be said that without Food and Feed Additive, there would be no modern food industry.

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