the pasta is not whitening the better this edition of the photographer Fu Qiyuan
no whitening The flour color of the flour may be yellow
the Ministry of health and other departments issued a formal announcement in March 1st. Since May 1, 2011, whitening agent is prohibited in the production of flour. Then, after the "Prohibition of white" is formally implemented, how to ensure that the manufacturer does not continue to add whitening agent and how to distinguish the flour additives? This reporter has conducted multiple visits.
after the Ministry of Health issued flour ban, the reporter interviewed some provincial townspeople. Most of the respondents welcomed the announcement, but many of them were puzzled.
the people's doubts come from the fear of the execution of the ban: can flour manufacturers make a "Prohibition"? "Flour is a good thing, but who can guarantee that the flour mills will not continue to add whitening agents in the flour?" Ms. Liu in Ji'nan said, "the key is to be in place, not to ban the ban." And not only, to lose its meaning. "
, Yan Shichun, President of the Ji'nan Food Industry Association, said that since May 1st this year, the industry and industry, health and other departments of the city will check the flour manufacturers. Meanwhile, the food industry association will also organize strength to inspect the flour processing enterprises in Ji'nan: "now there are 26 all Ji'nan. Flour mill, we are planning to set up the corresponding inspection team, will carry on the spot check to these enterprises. Once we find that there is a violation of the regulations, we will report it in time and make corresponding punishment accordingly.
for the prohibition of flour whitening agent, the reporter interviewed Kong Qingjiang, deputy general manager of Ji'nan min Tian Flour Group Co., Ltd., who explicitly objected to the use of flour whitening agent. "If forbidden, it will be a standard for the flour market." No whitening agent has little effect on regular factories with low flour extraction rate. According to the reporter's understanding, some large regular flour mills in China have also begun to abandon whitening agents.
[b] selection of flour is not "white better" [/b]
if the whitening agent exceeds the standard, it will lead to the loss of carotenoids, lutein and other natural ingredients in flour. Long term excessive consumption of the liver can cause serious damage to the liver, it is very easy to aggravate the liver burden, cause a variety of diseases; short term excessive consumption will cause nausea, dizziness, neurasthenia and other toxic phenomena.
so as ordinary people, how to identify the flour additives? Ji'nan Food Industry Association Yan Shi Chun, President of the city, told reporters that the citizens in the selection, should pay attention to see whether the contents of the packaging on the integrity of the content. Choose the small package as much as possible to ensure the freshness of the food; the color will appear yellow without the adding of the whitening agent, and the color of the pasta made with it will also yellow, and the flour added with the whitening agent will be gray or green.
what should it do if a citizen suspects that he has bought a whitening agent? Yan Shi Chun says that if someone suspected of buying flour containing a whitening agent after May 1st, it could go to the quality inspection department or the Food Industry Association for testing.
[b] flour whitening agent 20 years [/b]
[b] first importers now resolutely opposed [/b]
from 1986 to 2011, flour whitening agent in China for 25 years, the most dramatic, once the earliest agreed to introduce and use flour whitening agent, has now become a firm demand to ban it People.
[b] added whitening agent in 80s to China [/b]
as early as the last century, flour whitening agent has been widely used as a food additive in many countries. In 1986, Wang Ruiyuan, director of the Bureau of grain and oil industry of the Ministry of Commerce, first introduced and agreed to add bleaching agents to flour. Also under his promotion, the Ministry of Commerce has allowed benzoyl peroxide to be added in the new wheat flour standard. The Ministry of health synchronizes it in the hygienic standard for the use of food additives.
[b] in 90s of last century, when steamed bread was also used in [/b]
, flour whitening agent became more and more popular in China. A boss who has been selling food additives wholesale business in Ji'nan for many years told reporters that from 1993 to 1995, flour whitening agents were the best sellers.
"more than 30 yuan a kilogram, then no matter how big hotels and small restaurants are used, some families also buy back steamed bread." He told reporters that the flour brighteners sold in Ji'nan were mainly produced in Guangdong.
[b] harmful theory introduced the earliest importer of the injunction "turn off" [/b]
but in 1997, the European Union officially banned the whitening agent, and Australia and New Zealand were also banned later. The whitening agent introduced to China's Wang Ruiyuan's attitude to whitening agent has also changed, he found that the domestic flour whitening agent used too much, so that the food made "as white as porcelain, let the people dare not eat".
in 2003, the State Grain Administration began to organize a subordinate research institution to revise the draft of the national standard of wheat flour, and explicitly asked to ban whitening agents.
[b] will be banned after two months of debate on the rest of the argument [/b]
December 15, 2010, the Ministry of health's website on the prohibition of the use of flour whitening agent public opinion. At that time, Fang Fang, who was also controversial, published his blog, refuting the theory of "flour whitening agent harmful theory". This blog has once again become the focus of public opinion. In March 1st this year, the Ministry of health and other departments issued a notice that drew a rest for the debate.
[b], an industry person, has been exposed: the false whitening agent contains lime [/b]
whitening agent will be banned, which makes the debate over twenty years finally settled. But insiders told reporters that a small workshop using fake whitening agent, which contains 30% of the lime.
[b] false whitening agent 30% is lime [/b]
"production of flour brighteners is good and bad, some small factories produced in the whitening agent 30% of the ingredients are lime." Mr. Zhao, who runs the wholesale business of food additives in Ji'nan, told reporters that, from 1993, he began to contact flour brighteners, experiencing the market evolution from the red to the cold, and the principle of the production and use of flour brighteners.
Mr. Zhao said that the general food additives need to use oxides in the production process, and lime is one of them. However, because of the backward technology and equipment, plus profit drive, some non-standard small factories and small workshops made flour brighteners failed.
[b] a boss said Ji'nan no one sells whitening agent [/b]
"in the early 90s of last century, everyone thought the whitening agent is colorless and tasteless, it is harmless to the human body, so they all like to eat white steamed bun, and the whitening agent is also very good. A few years later, some people said that it was unhealthy, and people began to pursue natural foods. Mr. Zhao said he had no longer sold and sold flour whitening agents 10 years ago.
subsequently, the reporter visited three food additives shops as customers and was told not to operate flour brighteners. "No one in the city of Ji'nan is sold." A shop owner said.
[b] and the addition of [/b]
reporter has learned that the main ingredients of flour reinforcement include edible gum, emulsifier and so on, adding noodles and rice noodles in flour to make noodles, rice noodles and other pasta. It can improve the elasticity and toughness of dough, make noodles be boiled, resistant to foam, and smooth, but if added, it may cause the disease of the chemicals, the disease of the haematological system, the disease of the blood system and even the disease. Cancer.