Nutritional Supplements Not at All Scary
It is not necessary to run where your eyes look if suddenly on the product packaging it is written that it contains monosodium glutamate or some kind of E.
Nutritional supplements are usually not directly consumed, but they are actively used in the manufacture of products. For what? For example, baking powder accelerates the baking process. Preservatives improve storage conditions by lengthening its shelf life. And antioxidants allow you to leave the color, taste and smell of the product unchanged. Thus, nutritional supplements become a component of the product and have existed since people began to cook.
Listen to how it sounds: “Our grandmother adds E260 to E500 and gets E262.” That is, it mixes vinegar and soda and gets a baking powder - sodium acetate. And he makes pancakes with the help of this “terrible” mixture and ordinary flour, for example. Tell me, do they get it with food additives or not? Of course with them. She uses a common and familiar baking aid called a baking powder. We pickle cucumbers, add vinegar to them. But this is also an additive - E260. Or we cook caramel in a frying pan - pour sugar syrup and get burnt sugar, it’s E150.
Nutritional supplements are usually not directly consumed, but they are actively used in the manufacture of products. For what? For example, baking powder accelerates the baking process. Preservatives improve storage conditions by lengthening its shelf life. And antioxidants allow you to leave the color, taste and smell of the product unchanged. Thus, nutritional supplements become a component of the product and have existed since people began to cook.
Listen to how it sounds: “Our grandmother adds E260 to E500 and gets E262.” That is, it mixes vinegar and soda and gets a baking powder - sodium acetate. And he makes pancakes with the help of this “terrible” mixture and ordinary flour, for example. Tell me, do they get it with food additives or not? Of course with them. She uses a common and familiar baking aid called a baking powder. We pickle cucumbers, add vinegar to them. But this is also an additive - E260. Or we cook caramel in a frying pan - pour sugar syrup and get burnt sugar, it’s E150.
Turn Inside Out:
If you look at the composition of the additives, almost 99.9% of them are natural substances, that is, isolated from natural sources.
Please note, for example, that there is yellow vitamin B2 found in many foods. Why not add it to the drink so that it acquires a pleasant shade? We tried it, and it worked out well. So the dye riboflavin appeared. Many dyes are made from fruits and vegetables. So, red beetroot is simply beetroot juice. Or, for example, anthocyanins - E163. The name is terrible, but in fact it is a dye made from the peel of red grapes or the peel of black currant. From where it is extracted, since it is much more difficult to synthesize anthocyanin than to isolate it from berries. Similarly, carotenoids obtained from many types of vegetables: carrots, tomatoes, citrus fruits, spinach, etc. Many preservatives are found in berries. The same sorbic acid is in very large quantities in cranberries, and benzoic acid in milk. And her cows produce it. By the way, turmeric and its powder are E100, and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is E300.
Please note, for example, that there is yellow vitamin B2 found in many foods. Why not add it to the drink so that it acquires a pleasant shade? We tried it, and it worked out well. So the dye riboflavin appeared. Many dyes are made from fruits and vegetables. So, red beetroot is simply beetroot juice. Or, for example, anthocyanins - E163. The name is terrible, but in fact it is a dye made from the peel of red grapes or the peel of black currant. From where it is extracted, since it is much more difficult to synthesize anthocyanin than to isolate it from berries. Similarly, carotenoids obtained from many types of vegetables: carrots, tomatoes, citrus fruits, spinach, etc. Many preservatives are found in berries. The same sorbic acid is in very large quantities in cranberries, and benzoic acid in milk. And her cows produce it. By the way, turmeric and its powder are E100, and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is E300.
Some Chemistry:
Benzoic and sorbic acids began to be produced chemically. A person who has studied chemistry at least for some time has heard of the law of constancy of composition. A product obtained from oil and gas (they are also natural products), with the same formula, chemical bonds as the natural one, does not differ from the analogue. In order for them to differ in anything, they must be synthesized on another planet. Yes, in general, in a different universe - with other physical constants!
it is a fact:
Natural flavoring is a substance obtained from a natural source - raw materials of plant, microbial or animal origin by physical means. This is either steam distillation, where aromatic substances are concentrated, or pressing, or extraction. That is, it is an aroma extracted from natural strawberries, apples, vanilla, etc.
How much to hang in grams:
The principle of adding something to products is the same for the whole world and is established by WHO. Each year, the expert committee reviews all materials on this issue. Use additives only when you can not do without them. This is the first. Secondly, the percentage of food additives in the product should not exceed the standards for their use without harm to health. And note that the extremely safe level is reduced by another 100 times. The dose of any supplement that we can eat with food is 100 times less than the safest in any case. It becomes impossible to sort through the norm in principle.
Any nutritional supplement undergoes many years of testing before registration. About ten years for sure. With the advent of new introductory supplements to the study, naturally return.
Any nutritional supplement undergoes many years of testing before registration. About ten years for sure. With the advent of new introductory supplements to the study, naturally return.
Regulations:
In order to have an objective idea of food additives, it is worth getting acquainted with official documents that establish the rules and regulations for their use. This information is publicly available on the Internet. It can be seen by anyone who is not too lazy to read more than 300 pages of special text with terms and tables. By typing in the TRTS network 029/2012 (Technical Regulation of the Customs Union 029/2012), it is easy to get comprehensive data. The document is called: "Safety Requirements for Food Additives, Flavors, and Technological Aids."
It sets the principles for the use of additives for all types of food products, including baby food, in all countries of the Customs Union.
It sets the principles for the use of additives for all types of food products, including baby food, in all countries of the Customs Union.
It’s probably possible to damage your health with food additives, but for this you need to eat them in large quantities. The same sodium glutamate - about 500-700 g at a time. Or 50 kg of beef from which it is obtained.
Children's Question:
For children under three years of age, only certain supplements can be used. All of them are mentioned in the same document, in Appendix 29, in the table "Hygienic standards for the use of food additives in food products for infant food for young children."
Food products for babies must be treated stricter than what they buy for adults. At a minimum, it is imperative to read the information on the packaging, and as a maximum, choose products with age marking. Why, after three years, can I not really limit nutritional supplements? So the pediatricians decided. In general, at this age, children usually already eat the same things as their parents.
Although flavorings are not included in the list of food additives, they are subject to the same technical regulations for use. Until the age of 18, only natural ones are allowed in baby food. In the countries of the Customs Union, it is also forbidden to use sweeteners. There is no such restriction anywhere else in the world.
Food products for babies must be treated stricter than what they buy for adults. At a minimum, it is imperative to read the information on the packaging, and as a maximum, choose products with age marking. Why, after three years, can I not really limit nutritional supplements? So the pediatricians decided. In general, at this age, children usually already eat the same things as their parents.
Although flavorings are not included in the list of food additives, they are subject to the same technical regulations for use. Until the age of 18, only natural ones are allowed in baby food. In the countries of the Customs Union, it is also forbidden to use sweeteners. There is no such restriction anywhere else in the world.
Harm or Benefit?
This formulation of the question is incorrect. There are simply no harmful additives in the list of allowed substances. There is another principle related to supplements - the principle of benefits, harms and health risks. Sometimes they add something to a product, because without it it can be dangerous. Sometimes deadly. For example, nitrites are added as preservatives to sausages. What for? There are risks associated with the production of such products themselves, in particular, the development of botulism. In this case, the question comes to the forefront: “What are we risking?” Adding, perhaps, a not-so-safe ingredient (and among nutritional supplements I can only call nitrites like this) avoids the grave consequences of botulinum toxin damage.
Allergy
A similar reaction of the body is not recorded anywhere in the world. Why? And because in their chemical composition, food additives are simply not allergens. But allergies may well be caused by the substances from which they are produced: fruits, berries. For example, the same lemons are raw materials for citric acid.
Allergy
A similar reaction of the body is not recorded anywhere in the world. Why? And because in their chemical composition, food additives are simply not allergens. But allergies may well be caused by the substances from which they are produced: fruits, berries. For example, the same lemons are raw materials for citric acid.
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