Can I eat gold foil?

Edible gold foil is edible.

Edible gold foil is a kind of edible gold foil, which can be added to wine, cakes, cakes, coffee, tea, hot pot, cooking, condiments, cosmetics and bathing agents to improve the quality of goods, highlight luxury and increase festive atmosphere.

China is the first place to eat gold in history. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, the rich in China had records of eating gold foil and powder. In modern times, eating gold foil is also very popular in Japan and Southeast Asia. 1983, the Codex Committee of Food Additives of the World Health Organization officially listed 9999 natural pure gold in the category of food additives and named it Tabeano. 3 10.

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Now the National Health Planning Commission plans to approve gold foil as a food additive. Does gold foil affect the quality of wine and the health of consumers? Foreign studies believe that gold foil can treat immune diseases, whiten skin and delay aging.

But there is no further research to prove it. At present, there are 18 kinds of essential trace elements related to human health and life, namely iron, copper, zinc, cobalt, manganese, chromium, selenium, iodine, nickel, fluorine, molybdenum, vanadium, tin, silicon, strontium, boron, rubidium and arsenic, but there is no such element as gold, and a small amount of gold foil is harmless to human body.

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