Food additives on the tongue: Are you still eating plum?

I remember the primary school, the happiest thing every day is holding school after school pocket money, go to the store near the school to buy a variety of colorful snacks and stickers, and then eat home. The kind of sweet and sour sweet and sour complex texture is so tempting, that for a long time I love to eat plum, a variety of eaten, plum, plum, salt, milk, sour Cool, fleshy and juicy, dry enough flavor, are my favorites.

Rely on a good tooth, I am not let off the plum nuclear, we must try the taste inside. Whether it is out shopping, or the car, or go to the library to learn, my bag is placed a pack of plum, appetizing and refreshing, and even for some time, plum is one of my important sources of security, which I believe Sister paper loves to eat all know, or your sense of security into a crisp potato chips or cake only.

Since my exposure to nutrition, my diet has slowly been revised. I rarely touched other snacks except fruit (dried), yogurt and some original nuts, and now I think it all the more incredible. So fascinated things, now actually no feeling.

Like the boy who was even obsessed with infatuation during childhood, his face is now blurred, or I am a "fickle" person. Today, the protagonist to play is that plum, take a look at what exactly words Meili, so I love it for many years dietician no longer eat it.


Plum ingredients on the market similar words, just give a simple chestnuts, a section of plum ingredients list as follows:
Ingredients: fresh apricot, sugar, salt, butter, citric acid, stevia, aspartame, cyclamate, licorice, vanillin, ethyl maltol, potassium sorbate, sodium saccharin, Sodium formate

Is it right? Is it not easy to pickled plums and salt? How to run out such a long list of chemicals? Can not make people eat snacks well?

That's right, the plum packing plum in the store is not the preglabrous plum of Pregnancy for the White Snake and her sister in the Legend of the New White Snake. With the current food classification method, they should belong to candied foods.

In addition to the first four "fresh apricot, sugar, salt, butter," we can understand, what are the other? Listen to Hibiscus read for you one by one:

Citric acid: acidity regulator, the main source of sour plum, and salt together to make plum taste more rich;

Stevia glycosides, licorice: natural sweetener, extracted from plants, relatively safe;

Aspartame, Sodium Cyclobrase, Sodium Saccharin and Acesulfame K: Highly effective synthetic sweeteners, sweetness is tens to hundreds of times that of white granulated sugar. Of white sugar used together, not only cost savings, but also can be adjusted into a more gentle, acceptable sweetness and taste;

Vanillin: a synthetic flavor, commonly used words biscuits, candy, jelly, milk tea, milk powder and other foods, to provide the cream flavor of food;

Ethyl maltol: Is also a flavor, commonly used in bread, cakes and snacks and other food production, often with margarine or butter, so that food has a creamy or butter attractive rich flavor, the taste of the bakery is the source In this thing.

Potassium sorbate: one of the most common preservatives, can well inhibit the activity of molds, yeasts and aerobic bacteria, and effectively prolong the preservation time of food. It is relatively safe and is commonly used in beverages, preserved fruits, canned food, pickles, Soy sauce and vinegar and other foods;

Sodium benzoate: a common preservative but less safe than potassium sorbate, is not allowed in children and maternal foods, and is particularly carefully labeled for the purchase of such foods if it contains sodium benzoate.

Some people may ask, that ancient people pickled plum right? Is that modern people invented these chemical additives, plum plums into unhealthy food, then without preservatives, then plum must be okay?

Of course not, if no preservatives, it must be added a lot of much better (important thing to say three times) sugar, you know, sugar content of sweets reached more than 65% before long-term preservation at room temperature. The high sugar is clearly not conducive to health, if you choose sweeteners, the sugar content and certainly not up to this standard.

All in all, as a foodstuff like plum, I certainly would not recommend it to my daily diet as a dietitian, but if you occasionally greedy, it does not matter if you eat a few, since they are not poison anymore.

But pay attention to choose a large brand manufacturers products, do not choose bulk, small workshop production of three non-products. And for children, because kidney development and liver detoxification function is not perfect, so try to avoid eating.