Hazards of common colorants

Introduction: colorant, also known as food pigment, is a kind of substance that makes food endowed with color and improves food color, belonging to food additives So, do you know the harm of common colorants? Colorant, also known as food pigment, is a kind of substance that makes food endowed with color and improves food color So, do you know the harm of common colorants? According to the sources of colorants, colorants can be divided into two categories: natural colorants and synthetic colorants Natural colorants are carotenoids extracted or processed from plants and microorganisms, while synthetic colorants are mainly carotenoids Such as lemon flavin, Gali red, Gali yellow, Lu Kangding, etc The state order forbids the production enterprises from illegally adding non edible colorant and over standard colorant After long-term consumption of such food, human health will be affected, and excessive pollutants will cause damage to the main organs of human body Especially to the healthy development of children In the food market, almost every seafood vendor puts black plastic bags in a prominent position Most stall owners put seafood in black plastic bags directly after weighing The black plastic bags in the farmer's market are mostly processed by the waste plastic with poor quality, such as waste packaging film and packaging bag, which are covered by a large number of dark pigments The colorant contains toxic substances Many snacks placed on the shelves of small retail stores are added with colorants such as lemon yellow, carmine red and sunset yellow to varying degrees It is understood that children's favorite rainbow sugar has added five kinds of food additives, such as temptation red, lemon yellow, sunset yellow, bright blue, indigo, etc when most young parents choose snacks for their children, they usually care about the taste and don't care about the ingredients of food additives, which is a very bad phenomenon Most of the colorants are chemical colorants with low cost In order to reduce the cost and achieve the purpose of profit, most of the bad enterprises that deal in candy often choose to add colorants to the products, so as to increase the beauty of the products and attract customers' purchase desire Colorant is a kind of chemical synthetic agent, which is also used as a chemical colorant After eating, the metabolism of liver and kidney will affect human health Occasionally, it can be metabolized and excreted For example, eating a large amount of food containing sunset yellow colorant for a long time or once may cause allergy, diarrhea and other symptoms When the intake is too large and exceeds the organ load of human body, it will accumulate in human body and cause certain damage to kidney So I want to remind you that for the sake of health, do not eat colorant food or use plastic bags without safety signs The above is a small edition of Baibai safety net, which provides you with an answer about the hazards of common colorants If you want to know about the functions of colorants and other small knowledge, please pay attention to the food safety knowledge of Baibai safety net, and hope the above content can help you Editor in charge: Wu Mengli