If there is no food additive...

Frequent food safety incidents have caused food additives to become the focus of media attention and have become the suspicion of consumers. As some black-heart manufacturers use non-food additives for food production, coupled with people's lack of understanding of food additives, some media and consumers have a deep misunderstanding of food additives, thus blaming food safety incidents on food additives.

With the rapid development of the food industry, food additives have become an important part of the modern food industry. Food additives play an extremely important role in improving the quality, grade and flavor of foods, ensuring the freshness of food raw materials and even finished products, improving the nutritional value of foods, and ensuring the smooth progress of food processing and the development of new products. It can be said that there is no modern food industry without food additives.

This issue of the International Year of Chemistry album takes the theme of “Food Additives: Creating a Delicious Life”. It aims to solve doubts and mislead the readers with regard to food safety incidents that have occurred, and helps people to correctly understand food additives.

If there is no antioxidant -

Oil-bearing foods, whether they are natural plant and animal fats or fried foods, will be rancid by oxidation in a short period of time. Producers can only scramble and sell them now. Distributors need to update shelves every day, and consumers lose their sense of security. The long-distance transportation of food will also become impossible.

If there is no enzyme preparation -

Chinese people's steamed buns are not as fragrant and delicious as they are today. Europeans can only go back to the Middle Ages and scramble for hard bread. Earth people can rely on their own stomach acid and saliva.

If there is no moisture retention agent -

Ham sausages, sausages and cooked meat cans will leave our tables because the loss of raw juice during processing will make them savoury; seafood such as fish and shrimps will not allow the inland population to have enough appetite because proteins will be frozen during cold storage. Degeneration, high freezing and thawing losses; more tragic, lost rehydration, we can not even eat instant noodles.

If there is no food stabilizer -

In the hot summer, our favorite ice cream ice cream is full of ice in the refrigerator. It's a pity to eat like ice cubes. Cocoa milk, juice milk, sterilized yogurt, all kinds of stirred yogurt, active milk, etc. Drink is not done, although the milk on the prairie is always crowded.

Without emulsifiers -

There will be weird milk and moisture layers in the beverage. The sugar in the chocolate products will be easily crystallized, the bread will not be preserved, the margarine and the cans will separate into oil and water, and the toffee and bubble gum will be easily degreased and stick to the teeth.

In short, if there are no food additives, there will be no highly developed modern food industry and there will be no high-quality modern life.