A reminder: most lollipops damage the health of children
Spring Festival, it is one of the traditional customs to buy some sweets for new year's new year, especially for families with children, which will buy colorful lollipop, jelly and so on as a new year's gift for children to eat snacks. . These brightly colored "color" foods lure children and stimulate their appetite. However, experts remind that the beauty of these food "color clothes" behind the hidden dangers of human health, children's food containing too much synthetic pigments is not conducive to healthy development. Health risks caused by
a previous study by the University of Southampton found that six kinds of artificial edible pigments, lemon yellow, quinoline yellow, sunset yellow, acid red, carmine, and seductive red, may cause hyperactivity in children and lead to behavioral disorders such as hyperactivity. The destructive effect of intelligence is almost the same as that of lead poisoning. Last July, the European Union made relevant regulations, and the food sold in EU member countries such as six artificial edible pigments, such as lemon yellow and sunset yellow, must be added to the word "may have a bad effect on children's behavior and concentration". Although there are many health problems in artificial pigments, many consumers are not aware of the potential hazards of artificial pigments, and there is no sufficient attention. Most people do not care too much about the addition of synthetic chroma when buying these "color" foods for children.
Chinese Medical Doctor Association, deputy director of Chinese Medical Doctor Association children's health, Specialized Committee, said that children's long-term food intake of artificial synthetic pigments will be unquestionable, and the greatest impact is the special group of infants. Children are in the period of growth and development, their organs function is fragile, nervous system development is not yet sound, and they are sensitive to chemicals. If too long to eat food containing synthetic pigment, it will affect the impulse conduction of the nervous system, stimulate the brain nerve and appear agitation, emotional instability, concentration of attention, self-control, thought rebellion, excessive behavior and so on. In addition, children's liver detoxification function, kidney excretion function is not perfect, eating synthetic pigment, resulting in a large amount of detoxification in the body, interference in the body's normal metabolic function, and thus easily lead to diarrhea, abdominal distention, abdominal pain, malnutrition and a variety of allergies, such as rash, nettle rash, asthma, rhinitis and so on.
an expert who has been working on food safety inspection for many years said that synthetic pigments are widely used in food because of bright colors, good coloring power and cheap prices. At present, the phenomenon of adding artificial pigments in children's food is more common, and even some illegal vendors overdose artificial pigments in pursuit of profits. For example, the temptation of red is often used in jelly and lollipop; edible carmine is often used in soft sweets; sunset yellow is often used in bubble gum and bean candy. Although the harm of these six kinds of edible synthetic pigments is still not conclusive, it is certain that they have no nutritional value and no help to the health of the human body. They can not eat as much as possible.
experts remind that parents should not only pay attention to their children's rational nutrition intake, in order to meet the needs of their growth and development, but also to pay attention to the good eating habits of children. For some children's favorite foods, they must be strictly checked and must not be allowed to indulge too much. Try to let the children eat more natural food, do not buy processed foods with too bright colors and too strong flavor, and not to buy foods that are not qualified or approved by the food and health department. Before eating, parents should form the habit of reading the food ingredients table, pay attention to the addition of synthetic pigments, such as carmine, lemon yellow, sunset yellow and so on. We should try to avoid a large amount of food such as jelly, ice cream, candy and bubble sugar.