Children's food safety is worrying. Lactic acid drinks contain 12 additives.
lactic acid drinks have 12 kinds of food additives, there are 8 kinds of additives in French fries, and 9 kinds in marshmallow... "Is it really a food or an additive?" recently, Ms. Chen was surprised to see her son's favorite food packaging bag. It is very difficult to see the food on the market for children, and it is difficult to find a kind of food without additives.
this year's provincial conference, Yang Minghua, the provincial CPPCC member, suggested that the food additives should be reduced to the health of children, and the contents of food safety were written into the textbook. Experts advise parents to give their children more grains and try to eat less puffed food.
a bottle of
a bottle of lactic acid drink containing 12 additives
yesterday, the reporter saw in several large supermarkets in Nanjing, a variety of colorful children's food, including French fries, plum, biscuits, candy and so on, and the food additives will be found carefully and the food additives will be found. It's everywhere. The reporter took a bag of plum, and found that there were about 8 kinds of food additives in the ingredient column, including sodium cyclamate, sodium saccharin, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate and so on. Children's favorite lactic acid drinks contain 14 kinds of food additives, such as xylitol, sodium citrate, xanthan gum, guar gum and sodium cyclamate.
at present, there are 23 categories and more than 2000 varieties of food additives in China. The standards for the use of these food additives can be found in the hygienic standard for the use of food additives (GB2760-2007). In the food quality safety inspection, most of the food additives are in conformity with the limit regulations, but the phenomenon of adding or exceeding the standard often appears. Such as candied fruit, preserved plum and other snacks will often find sodium cyclamate and saccharin sodium exceeding the standard; puffing food and gum often appear the problem of abuse of white pigment.
, how can food with more kinds of additives be assured for children? What effect will it have on the growth of children with more food additives for a long time?
, Zhou Yulin, an associate professor of food nutrition at the Nanjing Agricultural University Institute of food and technology, raised several Example。 If you eat some delicious snacks for a long time, such as shrimps and fairy shells, it may affect the taste of your child and its digestive system. Eating biscuits, bread and so on may lead to insufficient nutrition. "Children eat Limited food, eat these, normal meals may eat less, so long term so easy to eat, picky eaters."
the phenomenon that most children love to eat puffed food and drink sweet drinks, Yang Minghua believes that excessive intake of food additives can cause a lot of harm to children, especially the immature immune system of children, weak detoxification of the liver, and easy to produce allergies to additives in food. Yes.
members suggested that
formulate children's food safety laws and regulations
"first, children's food safety should be legislating." Yang Minghua said that at present, many small food processing plants and "black processing points", in order to reduce the cost, make profit, often use synthetic additives, instead of natural additives or extra artificial pigments, flavors, preservatives and so on, children face the green small food, often unable to resist the temptation.
, Yang Minghua suggested that a series of laws and regulations for the safety of children's food should be formulated, at the same time, supervision should be strengthened, special regulation activities against illegal addition of non edible substances and food additives were carried out, and severe legal and economic sanctions were taken for serious illegal and illegal food production and processing enterprises. .
although it is not completely clear about the damage mechanism of food additives to the nervous system of children, studies abroad have pointed out that some food additives can harm the nervous system of children, may affect brain development, concentration of attention, resulting in children's hyperactivity. In this regard, Yang Minghua suggested that the government should increase human and material resources, organize relevant research institutions, make scientific research on the possible effects of food additives on children's health, explore the mechanism, and provide scientific basis for the decision-making of relevant departments.
faced with all kinds of children's food, children must be tempted. In this regard, Yang Minghua suggested that parents should be vigilant, when choosing children's food, they should try to keep away from the brightly colored products. Reduce children's consumption of food containing additives, eat fresh natural, short shelf life, simple flavor of food.
it is not enough to rely on parents' vigilance. Children's education is also very important. Yang Minghua suggested that the content of food safety, especially the excessive intake of food containing food additives, may be written into the textbook that may harm the child's body. It is reported that in developed countries, the contents of food safety will appear in primary and secondary schools. September is the month of food safety education in the United States. Food safety education has also been incorporated into the formal school education system.
experts remind
to give children more grains and grains
"or eat more grains and grains, and have a reasonable diet." Zhou Yulin said that it is important to develop good eating habits for children from childhood. Children who are in a gradual stage of eating habits may not be interested in other foods if they are often given some puffed food.
"what to eat is what parents have to say, and how much to eat is the child's last resort. But in reality, it happened to come back. " Zhou Yulin explained that today's children are generally the only child, and parents are spoiled by what they often eat to make their children choose. But in fact, children have no judgement at all. They often like snacks that are nice and tasty. In this regard, he suggested parents choose more grains and home cooked meals for children to eat.
can snacks be eaten? "Can be eaten, preferably after two hours of dinner." Zhou Yulin suggested that you can choose fresh fruits and nutritious nuts to eat for children, and try to eat less puffed food.