Don't be superstitious about earth eggs! Use additives for 3 days to dye the red heart earth eggs.

to buy eggs, people often prefer earthy eggs as more nutritious, safer and healthier than regular eggs.recently, a Qingdao resident found that the purchase of earthen eggs not only egg yolk color is particularly dark, even egg whites are red, experts look at the judgment, "may be the chicken feed added dye." Hebei Shijiazhuang area, an egg and chicken farmer told reporters, "stained eggs" is very common, in the chicken feed to add a small amount of red, yellow, such eggs can be sold at the price of eggs, more money.fan Zhihong, a food and nutrition expert at , said that the country does not have the relevant standards for soil eggs, and in terms of nutrition, soil eggs and ordinary eggs are no different, so consumers are advised not to blindly superstitious earth eggs, and be wary of buying counterfeit "stained eggs."Stained eggs posing as earth eggs price doubled 7 times reporter search found that the domestic well-known e-commerce platform a number of shops in the sale of dye egg pigment, and hit the "egg yolk dyeing preferred", "excellent effect", "recommended to domestic chicken and duck farms to improve the commercial value of products" and other propaganda. A shop called "Henan Xingyuan Chemical Products Co. , Ltd. " sales staff told reporters, "usually a ton of feed plus 100 grams of pigment, to feed chickens and ducks for about 3 days, immediately effective." The salesped person said that the pigment sales have been very good, the customer is mainly chicken and duck farmers.An industry insider told reporters that many consumers believe that the yolk color is darker and more nutritious, think that this egg is authentic earth eggs, and these sold earth eggs, some of which are artificially fed pigment dyeing, not the real earth eggs. "Some dealers specialize in ordering such dyed eggs at chicken farms and selling them at high prices as 'earth eggs'." The source said.According to the Ministry of Agriculture in October 2015, the national wholesale market price of agricultural products shows that the price of ordinary eggs is 6-10 yuan / kg range, and reporters in the multi-home appliance platform found that the price of some earth eggs even as high as 87 yuan / kg, is 8 times the price of ordinary eggs, and usually sold.Feed colorants must be approved for the state Fan Zhihong, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and
Seedstock Safety
at the School of Food Sciences of Agricultural University of China, said in an interview that dyed eggs are not new, "as early as many years ago, and are common abroad."ministry's animal husbandry department feed department, a related person in charge told reporters that the state is not all prohibited in the use of pigment in feed, but allows a small number of pigments as "colorants" added to poultry feed. Although the state prescribes several colorants that can be used safely, "stained eggs" still carry
risks
food safety. "Individual farmers think that hundreds of dollars a kilogram is more expensive, will choose cheaper dyes, in order to save costs, it is possible to choose the country's banned industrial pigments, " said a colorant salesman, "in previous years there has even been the phenomenon of adding Sudanese red to the dyeing of eggs."a related person in charge of the feed department of the animal husbandry department of the Ministry of Agriculture said that the colorants added to the feed must be approved for the use of the state products, but at present the state only for feed production enterprises to supervise, the breeding link of the state has no relevant supervision.Don't be superstitious about earth eggs "Earth eggs have no national standards", said Yu Guangfeng, deputy director of the information department of the Science and Technology Food and Nutrition Information Exchange Center., an expert in food and nutrition, said, "Earth eggs are not a standard thing." Earth eggs have no quality control, good or bad there is no standard. "The same is the "earth chicken", the breeding area is different, feeding different feed, different varieties, will also show different colors, shapes and tastes, nutrients. "The nutritional value of eggs is also good if the feed ingredients in the chicken farm are reasonably nutritious."the nutritional content of eggs is not related to egg yolk color, egg size. Experts advise consumers not to pick eggs according to color, size, etc., and not to be misled by the concept of earth eggs. Instead of pursuing earthy eggs, Fan suggests paying attention to information that is more directly related to nutrition and safety. "I personally recommend buying clean, detoxifying eggs with surface cleaning to avoid food safety risks by taking eggs with pathogenic bacteria into your kitchen and contaminating other foods." Fan Zhihong said. According to the Beijing News
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