Vegetable butter spreads all over Ji'nan pastry shop, and petty bourgeois is the main consumer.
Shun network news recently, the plant cream has been exposed to the insecticide by the media containing trans fatty acids, and the Ministry of health is also carrying out the risk monitoring and evaluation of trans fatty acids. Reporters 10 Ji'nan pastry shops and large supermarkets found that not only the existence of vegetable butter in the cake, many chocolate, coffee partners, yolk pie, sandwich biscuits and so on "small capital food" ingredients can be seen "plant fat", "hydrogenated oil" words.
is widely used in "small capital food"
"plant milk essence", "plant fat", "shortening", "plant cream", etc. are commonly known as hydrogenated oil. The harm of hydrogenated oil lies in the production of a large amount of trans fatty acids, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. How about the use of
hydrogenated oil in Ji'nan? Yesterday, reporters visited several cake shops. A national chain of famous pastry shops on the Quancheng Road, when asked to make a cake for whipped cream or creamy, "always used botanical butter, no animal butter." The store salesman said.
at a West Point shop on Shan Shi Dong Road, sales personnel also said they used vegetable butter and did not use animal cream. The head of a large pastry company said that cakes in Ji'nan were basically made of vegetable butter.
professor Cui Bo, a professor at the school of food and bioengineering at the Shandong Light Industries College, said that hydrogenated vegetable oils must be used as long as they are baked and roasted.
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Yang Chunli, a teacher of cooking and nutrition education at University of Jinan School of tourism, said vegetable butter is much cheaper than animal cream. Good plant cream is only about 20 yuan a kilogram, while animal cream 200 grams is more than 20 yuan.
compared with animal cream, vegetable butter has some other advantages. Plant butter is easier to make when making cakes, and it has a good taste. In storage, good plant cream can last longer without deteriorating.
should be restricted according to the assessment
professor Cui Bo believes that the limits of the range and standard of trans fatty acids are very necessary.
Cui Bo said that foreign countries have already noticed the dangers of trans fatty acids produced by hydrogenated oils, and they require food packaging to be labeled as saturated fatty acids and cholesterol levels, indicating the content of trans fatty acids. China should also risk assessment of the intake of trans fatty acids, which is dangerous to the human body at what level of intake, and then set the limit value according to the results of the assessment.
Zhang Jian, a fellows of the food and Nutrition Institute of China CDC, suggested that consumers should first look at the ingredients when they buy food, and advocate eating less healthy eating ways, such as fried food. People who love western food, fast food, cakes and other foods should also pay attention to the intake of trans fatty acids.