Nanchang agricultural products wholesale market is now using "a glass of citric acid" white lotus.

green stir-fry silk, fried slices, lotus stew ribs are our table dishes. However, many people may not know that this white and brittle lotus, may have been groomed. Recently, there have been Nanchang residents reported that the lotus sold has been groomed.Nanchang City, Shenzhen agricultural products wholesale market C area 15, here is the entire market lotus processing wholesale area, there are large and small dozen shops, wholesale out of the fresh at least a hundred thousand pounds a day, March 23 afternoon, the reporter came to a shop here, see here workers are busy washing, some busy over the scale packaging, but the reporter noticed that they packed the seal before, they will grab a salt-like crystal sprinkled on the lotus.in another shop, the reporter saw a wholesale boss also sprinkled the same crystal on the lotus. The boss said it would be much better to have this crystal lotus. Reporters noted that the crystal particles in the red basin are very small, white. So what the hell is this?bear boss told reporters that they sprinkled food-grade citric acid, not industrial citric acid. In their market, it's been years since citric acid was sprinkled on a washed lotus.Reporters in Nanchang City, Shenzhen wholesale market for agricultural products in the lotus wholesale area around, found that almost all of the wholesale sector mouth buckets are loaded with such citric acid, some shops even packed with citric acid bags are the whole bag out.reporter noted that this product called "one water citric acid" is produced by an industrial company in Weifang, Shandong Province, graded as food grade. In the wholesale market, we put citric acid on the lotus also has an internal saying, called "powdering".In order to verify the whitening effect of citric acid, the reporter from the wholesale market bought back two bags of slugs, one bag coated with citric acid, the other bag did not add any ingredients of natural lotus, we are each cut a small section to see their changes in two days.just bought back, these two lotus in the quality, color, moisture content are almost the same, and after 24 hours, the difference is already very large. Lotus skin without citric acid has begun to blacken, water loss is more, and the lotus color coated with citric acid is still bright, little change.after 48 hours, the citric acid applied did not change much compared to the previous, but not smeared, darker than before, the color is more dim, and some of the phenomenon of decay.It seems that this citric acid beauty skills are really not small, in the wholesale market reporters also found that all the washing workers are wearing gloves work, they told reporters that this citric acid has a strong irritation and corrosion, if you grab citric acid empty-handed, less than half an hour your hand can not stand. Mr. Xiong, owner of lotus wholesale department: The best thing to eat is not to fight? Don't fight, it's best not to hit, this is a chemical, on people a little bit of an impact it is understood that citric acid as a food additive, has the role of regulating acid taste, anti-corrosion preservation, and in the washing industry is also used as detergent. According to food experts, the appropriate dose of citric acid is harmless to the human body, in many foods are used, but if the human body ingests too much citric acid, it will still induce health risks. The nutrition department of Nanchang University Second Affiliated Hospital: Citric acid and calcium in our food combine to form calcium citrate, which affects the absorption of calcium in our food, if long-term consumption of foods rich in citric acid, easy to lead to hypocalcemia.Feng said that hypocalcemia, in children showed nervous system instability, plant-like nerve disorders, crying, adults may have hand and foot convulsions, muscle spasms and digestive tract and other symptoms.then, Nanchang City, Shenzhen wholesale market of agricultural products these merchants to the lotus spray citric acid is in line with the regulations? In this regard, the reporter specifically consulted Nanchang Food and Drug Administration food distribution staff.Nanchang Food and Drug Administration Food And Drug Administration food distribution staff: in the fresh vegetables I think it can not be added, because it has a production needs to add food additives in the appropriate amount of the list there is an exception, fresh vegetables should be the exception, should be counted as fresh food She refers to this standard is the 2014 National Health and Planning Commission issued the "food additives use standards", lotus is a primary agricultural products, but also fresh vegetables, and she also told reporters that the use of food additives, must consider two factors, one requires food additives harmless, the other is to consider whether there is a need to add. But staff said it was also difficult to deal with the act of applying citric acid to the lynum.The staff member explained that, more importantly, due to the north-south differences in China's geographical areas, there is no set of the national standard value of citric acid content in lotus, China has only set up some agricultural products such as agricultural residues, heavy metal content and other indicators of the limit. Citric acid, for example, in
food processing
, the country did not make a rigid requirement for its proportion of additions, saying only that "production needs to be added in moderate". The lack of standards creates an embarrassment in terms of penalties. In fact,
food additives
in many foods are more or less present. But from a health point of view, nutrition experts recommend that it is best to choose all-natural products.also consulted food experts on how to buy assured lotus.smell: sour slugs can't be asked for. A good dragonfly with silt, rough skin, close to a soily gas. But with citric acid and other bubbled slugs, the appearance of white, feel slippery, but issued a sour taste;Look at the color: in general, the palate placed for a period of time will change color, whitened on the palate for a few days is still white as new, but after cleaning, will quickly blacken taste: if raw food is sour, this indicates that the palate is likely to be soaked by acidic solution.
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