1, what are the common additives?
Prevention law
Preservatives refer to natural or synthetic chemical components used to add food, medicines, pigments, biological specimens, etc. Delaying microbial growth or corruption caused by chemical changes. Preservatives are added to food to ensure the freshness of food during transportation and storage. If the preservative in the product does not meet the relevant national standards, it will have an impact on health. For example: benzoic acid, sorbic acid, nitrite, etc. Long-term consumption will have a certain impact on the body.
benefit
Sweetener refers to a food additive that can bring sweetness to soft drinks. It is mainly divided into sodium cyclamate and acesulfame K, which is not suitable for children's excessive intake.
nitrate
High-salt diet is not good for children, which will increase the burden of kidney protection and have potential adverse effects on children's cardiovascular system.
Artificial color
Excessive consumption of synthetic pigments will have a certain impact on health. At present, the artificial pigments listed in the hygienic standard GB2760-20 1 1 for food additives in China include carmine, amaranth, sunset yellow, lemon yellow, magenta, indigo, brilliant blue, titanium dioxide and so on. It is best to choose products with natural pigments. Common natural pigments are shellac pigment, safflower yellow pigment, beet red, capsaicin, Redmi, turmeric, β carotene and so on. Parents should look carefully.
sweet smell
Essence is a kind of synthetic concentrated aromatic oil, which imitates the smell of fruits and natural spices. Adding essence to food, the added fragrance is easy to make children have strong taste dependence. Long-term excessive intake can easily lead to unreasonable dietary structure of children and affect their development. Eating the wrong things, lack of nutrition leads to malnutrition and memory loss (adults are most afraid of children's memory loss). Eating hormones leads to endocrine disorders and makes children's physical appearance precocious, so be sure to keep children away from "toxic food".
These are the common additives that Bian Xiao introduced to you. Children try to avoid eating these things with formula additives during their development. Eating too much is not good for children's development. Let's see how to choose safe food for children.
2. How to choose safe food?
Try to avoid buying food with many additives.
Parents should be careful when they see preservatives, sweeteners, nitrates, flavors, artificial colors and other additives in the ingredient list. Don't buy if you can, and don't be fooled by packaging advertisements. Don't be influenced by herd mentality.
Don't buy a long list of ingredients.
Parents are often very unfamiliar with the names of various ingredients in the food ingredient list, which is not surprising, because they are not ordinary foods, but "developed" additives. Their main function is to make food beautiful, delicious, easy to preserve, low cost, and its nutritional value is impossible to talk about. Obviously, the more additives in a food, the greater the potential safety hazard and the lower the nutritional quality. So, teach you such a "trick": when buying food for your baby, if the list in the ingredient list is too long, don't choose to buy it.
Look at the order of ingredients.
The General Rules for Labeling of GB7718-201KLOC-0/prepackaged foods stipulates that ingredients should be arranged in descending order when food is manufactured or processed; Components with an addition amount of less than 2% can be arranged in descending order. For example, drinks contain the most water, so the first one should be water. This avoids the possibility of being "deceived" by the product name, such as yogurt (milk beverage), and the first ingredient in the ingredient list is water, so that we don't think it is really a dairy product. In other words, the ingredients are sorted by content. There will be a lot of information, why some are delicious and some are not, and you can also see a lot of information such as additives.
Depends on whether the energy content exceeds the standard
If your baby is overweight, you should pay more attention to this indicator. Sometimes, when parents look at the nutrition label, they will be surprised to find that the energy of an ice cream is equal to that of a steamed bread! Therefore, the health expert does not recommend obese babies to eat more snacks. In addition, babies now like to drink, and they can only make healthier choices for them if they can't quit. At this time, parents should choose a drink with low energy and less food additives among similar drinks.
Core nutrients
In addition to energy, core nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrates and sodium) must also be marked on the nutrition label, which is what parents must read when buying food. For example, many parents know that babies should eat less salt, but they often ignore the salt in processed food. If you don't pay attention to the salt in processed food, even if parents control the salt within 6 grams per person per day during cooking, the baby's sodium intake may exceed the standard. Therefore, parents should choose suitable snacks for their babies according to their daily nutritional needs.
Pay attention to other nutritional achievements
In addition to the mandatory information of core energy and core nutrients, the nutritional components such as calcium, dietary fiber and vitamins marked on the nutrition label are also useful information to help parents buy food. If the child is short of vitamins, you should pay attention to whether there are vitamins in the ingredient list and how many vitamins there are.
Summary: From the above statement, we must have a deeper understanding of common additives. Children eating the wrong things will lead to malnutrition, so parents must choose safe food for their children.
3, the harm of food additives
1, sodium: Excessive consumption can lead to stroke and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The daily sodium intake of ordinary adults should not exceed 2300 mg, and the foods with high content are: pizza, take-away soup, tomato juice, cooked meat, etc.
2, trans fat: it will lead to elevated cholesterol and coronary heart disease. Common foods such as hamburgers, French fries and take-away popcorn;
3, high fructose corn syrup: excessive consumption can lead to obesity and diabetes, which is very common in soda, cereal and condiments;
4, edible pigment: it will lead to ADHD in children. Animal experiments show that it can also cause cancer, which is common in fruit products and sports drinks;
5. Acesulfame K: It is an artificial sweetener without calories. Animal experiments show that it has carcinogenic effect and is generally used in the processing of candy, chewing gum and mints.
6. Hydrogenated vegetable oil: preservatives and flavor enhancers can cause obesity, high cholesterol and heart disease, and are often used to replace butter and fat in the processing of salad dressing, margarine and baked goods;
7. Aspartame and Saccharin: A calorie-free sucrose substitute. Studies have shown that they may cause cancer and are often used to make table sweeteners and diet drinks;
8, sodium nitrite: preservative, can cause a variety of cancers, can be seen in lunch meat, bacon and fish;
9. Flour treatment agent-potassium bromate: it has carcinogenic effect and is banned in many countries. It is used for the processing of flour and bread products;
10, monosodium glutamate: It may cause headache, nausea and chest pain, and it is also rejected by some prescription drugs. Common in steak, soy sauce and barbecue seasoning.