http://news.xinhuanet.com/food/2012-05/08/c_123093298.htm
Intern of Ji'nan times Intern Zheng Chuqiao reporter Su ran
5 month afternoon, in a small shop near the culture east road mountain teacher, the owner made strawberry porridge for the customers. Reporter Zhang Yong took
hot summer, and the cool and tasty porridge was favored by many young people. Recently, a reporter found a number of porridge stalls and wholesalers in the streets of Ji'nan. It was found that the porridge was made of jam and ice, with a variety of additives, some even processed with overdue cans, and experts suggested less.
[market visit]
the seller said many additives, and never eat
"this weather is the best to eat ice porridge, cold and delicious." In the cold store of Shan Shi Dong Road, facing the selected customers, the landlady enthusiastically recommends. She told reporters that business is good and can sell at least 50 bowls of ice gruel a day. Reporters interviewed found that the market of Ji'nan ice porridge was hot, and there were only five or six cold drinks shops or stalls selling ice porridge on the street of Shan Shi Dong road.
in one of the stores, the reporter ordered a strawberry - flavored porridge. The boss saw a mixture of crushed ice, strawberry jam, coconuts, milk, honey, sugar and beans, and a bowl of colorful porridge was made.
and in a cold drink shop near Honglou square, the reporter saw that the ice porridge is selling fresh fruit, selling 7 yuan a bowl. "This is the feature of our shop, the jam is a lot of additives, it is not good to eat." The boss introduces it.
another store in Shan Shi Dong Road, the owner told the reporter, "some of the ice porridge is not real fruit, such as the mango taste, it is made of pumpkin essence." He said frankly that although he sold this, he never ate it.
[raw material wholesalers]
some jam made of
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" ice congee is made mainly of ice, jam and coconut. The real jam is mostly made up, and many fruit jams that look big are actually added. " On the morning of 7, a shopkeeper of Chengfeng bridge, a brand food additive in Shanghai, told reporters. Reporters found that the shop sold the jam with small fruit grains, while the ice cream congee sold near the Shan Shi Dong road was mostly large fruit jam.
in another store selling food additives, reporters saw the shelves full of colorful jam and coconut. When the reporter asked if there was any light colored coconut, the shopkeeper said, "many people like to have bright colors on the ice gruel."
the reporter found that the store sold most of the jam containing seven or eight kinds of additives such as ethyl lactate, maltol and methyl benzoate, including sunset yellow and indigo pigment, and the label on the commodity is marked with QS certification, but there is no corresponding license number.
"some jam is made of canned fruit." The owner of a food additive store revealed that the cost of making jam with fresh fruit is too high, and the "waste material" used by the canned factory is similar to the fresh taste after a professional process.
[experts saying]
contains a variety of additives, it is recommended to eat less
7 afternoon, the reporter calls the Ji'nan food and Drug Administration Bureau. The staff told reporters that they could only inspect the food according to the national standards. The ingredients of ice porridge are complex, and there is no corresponding national standard.
people in the industry say that many of the ingredients of the congee are added with pigment and sweet element. Natural pigments are natural pigments and artificial pigments, natural pigments are safer, and artificial synthetic pigments can be toxic. If they do not look at the ingredients, it is difficult to know which pigments are used. The excess of sweeteners and the excess of pigment will cause harm to the human body.
professor Yu Haifeng of the school of food and bioengineering of Shandong Light Industries College also said that the jam added to the jam added edible gum, food pigments and other additives, added within the range of national standards can be added, but because the additives are chemical ingredients, it is not suitable to eat.