The invasion of "spicy food" in rural areas is a health concern.

Original title: "Five hairs of food" invasion of rural areas, "spicy bar group" health concerns
March 18, 10 o's, Hebei Zhangjiakou Xiheying Town, the red flag primary school small shop, children are scrambling to buy a spicy bar, its outer packaging on the production date printed vaguely, packaging is also rough and poor quality, some snacks do not even have any product information.
"spicy bar" has become synound for snacks popular among rural children after school meals. To the spicy bar as a representative, the unit price in five hairs to 1 yuan of all kinds of puffed food, candy by the media called "five hair snacks", and the consumers who love to eat spicy bars are called "spicy bar group." At present, "five-haired snacks" are surrounding rural schools, intruding on the growing rural children.
At present, there are 140 million rural children in China, 9.02 million left-behind children, a pack of "five-hair snacks" in their popularity, in addition to exposing the existence of a vacuum in food safety supervision in rural areas, but also reflects the rural areas in the knowledge and awareness of the general lack of food and education.
"Five-haired snacks" surrounded the rural children
"Full Hakke" "dinner" "acid" . . . Workers Daily reporter in The Red Flag Primary School, less than 10 square meters of the commissary counter saw piles of about dozens of small snacks of flowers and green. In less than a minute it was full of children. "I eat a lot of hot bars every day without feeling the effect on my health, and when I think about that smell, my mouth comes out." A third-grader told reporters while buying hot bars.
" brand of hot bars sell well, children like to eat. According to the owner, a price of 1 yuan of hot bars are very popular, can sell more than 20 bags a day. But it is this "best-selling" food, the production date on the outer packaging is printed vaguely, unrecognized. Some bulk lollipops do not have any product information except for non-conforming packaging.
reporters visited other schools in the town and residential areas near more than a dozen small shops found that it sells more than this kind of production information is incomplete, packaging unqualified spicy bars, coriander, brine eggs, candy, puffed food.
a small shop owner told reporters that sugar within one yuan sells best. Children don't have money, and the average pocket money they give at home is one or two yuan a day. "The average local wage level is about 3000 yuan, and the level of pocket money parents spend on their children is not too high, " said Chen, a teacher at Red Flag Elementary School. "
", "five-haired food" invasion of rural areas, in fact, there have been concerns.
Starting in 2013, Peng Yara, a professor at Chinese Min University's School of Agriculture and Rural Development, spent three years surveying 12 rural schools and two mobile children's schools in Jiangxi, Henan, Hebei, Sichuan, Shanxi and around Beijing and found that rural children in some poor areas of China, especially left-behind and mobile children, face a serious situation compared to most urban children.
team found that many small snacks sold around rural schools, manufacturers address, telephone and other false information rate of 30%. These inferior snacks are becoming popular among children in rural areas and account for a large proportion of their food intake. Among the children surveyed, 73% regularly snacked, some even ate three or four packets of spicy bars a day, and many had snacks as a meal.
"spicy bar group" formed by multiple factors
to Zhangjiakou City, for example, the reporter found that in addition to rural areas, some urban and rural integration and market towns also exist to varying degrees of the above phenomenon. From rural to urban areas, with the distribution of large chains of living supermarkets near schools and residential settlements gradually dense, the number of small shops selling inferior food is on the decline.
"My children generally rarely eat those poor-quality snacks. One is that the big supermarkets nearby are not selling, and the other is that we are strictly controlling the amount of snacks our children eat. Ms. Zhou, who works for a cultural publishing agency in Beijing, told reporters that she is cautious about eating, especially children's snacks.
the "five-haired snack" can invade rural areas, rural areas and poor areas of consumers why love "spicy bars"?
reporters found that the lack of food safety supervision in rural areas is its main reason for the proliferation of inferior food. "Nobody cares, and the desteter has gone into those low-cost snacks from a cost-consideration." Mr. Chen said.
Lu Panbo, a sociologist who has long been engaged in rural research, told the Workers' Daily that poor quality snacks are popular in rural areas, in addition to low levels of rural consumption, inadequate supervision and other factors, there are more profound socio-cultural factors behind them. "Snacks, though a single dietary difference, are based on differences in educational levels and cognitive abilities based on differences in economic ability. Because of the low level of education of parents or intergenerated grandparents, there is a blind spot in their understanding of food nutrition and food safety. Lu
's views are confirmed by rural parents. Children in Jiangxi rural hometown of primary school Mr. Lu told reporters that usually work not at home, new year home will take a lot of children love to eat snacks, "I also think the spicy bar is very delicious, children want to eat to buy, can have any problems, but children do not love to eat or quite a headache." The
Byrlan Pengyala also found that economic conditions in poor areas had improved, but that children's body mass index pass rates did not improve. "Our research in Shanxi and Hunan found that when the economy was good, malnourished children became healthy children, but in reality they became overweight and obese children, " she told the media. So improving economic conditions doesn't necessarily improve a child's nutritional status and health, and we need education. "
supervision is more important to carry out food and education
poor quality snacks in rural areas, threatening the health of rural children's diet, and these snacks are difficult to flow into the city. In this regard, some experts believe that in order to make the problem food in the countryside no place to hide, we must control from the source, strengthen the production and circulation of the supervision.
At the end of 2016, the Food Safety Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration of Industry and Commerce and the State Administration of Food and Drug Administration jointly carried out special inspections on rural food safety management, requiring the improvement of the whole chain supervision of rural food production and operation, and the formation of a comprehensive, all-link, all-covering long-term mechanism for rural food safety control.
And reporters in the rural areas visited, townships found that rural food knowledge is generally lacking, parents can not tell, schools do not know, children do not care, but also in addition to food safety, so that poor quality snacks are an important reason. Therefore, there is a need to strengthen publicity and education to raise awareness of food safety in rural areas.
at the 2016 China Food And Education Summit, Peng Yara suggested embedding dietary nutrition and food safety education in the national "Nutrition Improvement Program for Rural Compulsory Education Students" to improve children's health. (Reporter Rand Hua)