The harm of food with high additive content to children

Introduction: there are many kinds of food for children now Parents should pay attention to the intake of color food when purchasing food for children, because some color food may be added too much food additives, and children often eat it to affect their growth and development From the perspective of food safety, this safety net will tell parents why color food with high content of food additives is harmful to children's food safety Children's physical development is not completed in a day The health and safety of children's food is the basis for their healthy growth Therefore, parents must not be careless in the choice of children's food, especially the color food with high content of food additives The safety net will share the safety knowledge of high content of food additives to children Carcinogenesis in recent years, it has been reported that some sweeteners and pigments can cause certain carcinogenic effects on the body, such as cream yellow can induce liver cancer in rats, and sweeteners such as glargine and phenylurea can also cause animal tumors In recent years, it has also been found that the chromogenic agent sodium nitrite reacts with amines in meat, fish and other foods to form nitroso compounds with strong carcinogenic effect Acute and chronic poisoning: some toxic compounds are polluted due to the impure raw materials used in the manufacture of additives, which causes people's acute and chronic poisoning For example, Japan's Senyong milk powder incident is the use of excessive additives, resulting in excessive arsenic in milk powder causing more than 10000 infants poisoning As an antioxidant, butylhydroxyanisole can accumulate in the body, which may cause potential harm to the body After the conversion product food additive is added to the food, some conversion products can be produced in the body, such as nitrite can be converted into nitrosamine in the body, which has harmful effects on the human body 1 Cause metabolic disorder Long term ingestion of colored food can consume detoxification substances in the body, mainly damage the subcellular structure in the body, interfere with the normal function of various active enzymes, and affect the metabolic process of sugar, fat, protein, vitamins and hormones, resulting in diarrhea, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, malnutrition and a variety of allergies, such as rash, urticaria, asthma, rhinitis, etc 2 The body of children with chronic poisoning is still in the development stage If they take in pigmented food for a long time, it will accumulate over time, and the detoxification function undertaken by the liver can not completely discharge the toxin Therefore, they stay in the body of children, with unimaginable consequences This is one of the reasons why the number of children with leukemia has increased in the past decade 3 People may have such feelings that affect the nervous function Many children will have grumpy or even extreme behaviors, which are incomprehensible In addition to the relationship between family education and children's daily diet, it is also inextricably linked Children are in the period of growth and development, the function of internal organs is fragile, the development of nervous system is not sound, and they are particularly sensitive to chemical substances If they eat food with strong pigment for too long, it will affect the impulse transmission of children's nervous system, so that it is easy to cause hyperactivity, emotional instability, inattention, poor self-control, behavioral quirks, anorexia and other symptoms Therefore, parents should try their best to make children eat less food with food additives If you want to learn more about children's food safety knowledge, please continue to pay attention to the food safety channel of this safety net Editor in charge: Hu Lingling