As a result of many food safety accidents in recent years, when we talk about food additives, many people is scared all additive, even do not eat any food additives, it is undeniable that some unscrupulous businesses for a certain purpose, such as allowing food storage longer, more bright colors, more fragrant taste, will be excessive addition of certain food additives to achieve the goal.
Note that what is said here is over usage addtive, if the science, the right amount of addition, will not produce harmful effects. Food additives, not some illegal use of chemicals, many people are confused with the concept of illegally added chemicals and food additives, real food additives, if the use of science, is non-toxic and harmless. Food additive is the "secret weapon" of food industry nowadays, and it is an indispensable quality modifier of food industry products. With the improvement of people's living standards, people are more and more concerned about the color, fragrance, taste and nutrition, health and safety of food. It can be said that today's social food additives everywhere, everywhere, and our diet life is closely related.
The main role of food additives is to prevent spoilage, improve the senses, maintain nutrition, convenient supply, convenient processing and so on. In fact, the food additives we use in our lives are far beyond your imagination. For example, we often use MSG, chicken essence, Tender meat powder, Shing, baking soda, sugar, salt, yeast, spices and so on, these are food additives. It is no exaggeration to say that, in addition to the direct gifts of nature, every kind of thing we eat will be used directly and indirectly in food additives.
As long as the scientific use of food additives, and will not cause harm to the human body. Phosphate series of food additives, extremely widely used in all aspects of living food. Contains many important minerals necessary for the human body, such as potassium, sodium and other nutrients are derived from phosphate.
Phosphate food additives are non-toxic and high safety additives. The security evaluation of the 1970 Special Committee of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (fao/who) was that adults allowed an intake of 1.4-1.5GP2O5 per day, while the 1985 Committee recommended that the unconditional acceptance of total phosphorus in the diet was <30mg/kg weight,
Conditional acceptance of 30--70 mg/kg bw. It must be pointed out here that in the application of food phosphate, we should pay attention to calcium, phosphorus balance (calcium, phosphorus ratio to 1:1.2 is good), and in strict accordance with the provisions of food additives using sanitary standards reasonable use of food phosphate, so as to avoid calcium, phosphorus imbalance or the abuse of phosphate caused by adverse effects on human health.