Vinyl ripe bananas have become a common practice Expert: harmless to the body

Bananas have always been one of the most popular fruits among the general public, and now the deep autumn festival is also the peak season for banana sales. Recently, however, some members of the public reported to this newspaper that they had accidentally found a small bag when buying bananas, the packaging

"Vinyl
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three words. She knew ethylene was a chemical, so she wondered if putting together the bananas we used to eat with

would be harmful to human health.visit: ethylene into fruit cooked essential Yesterday, the reporter visited a number of fruit shops in the main city area, found that the fruit shop bananas are placed in a prominent position, buy a lot of people. In a fruit shop in Meiyaoqiao, the reporter asked whether bananas are ripe, the owner replied that bananas are now shipped from the south and then cooked, when the reporter asked whether it is
this substance cooked, the owner is not clear, he is only selling fruit.In another fruit shop, the reporter accidentally found in the corner of the ground stacked with a lot of bananas wrapped in bags, on the ground a bundle of bananas opened, and indeed found the public reflected this chemical agent, packaging similar to desiccant, but is anointed, placed in a white bag. The reporter asked the boss whether this is used to cook bananas, the boss said it is really used to cook fruit, they are in stock when bundles of bananas are wrapped in plastic bags, inside will put a small bag vine
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, he said that now all fruit shops must be able to find this kind of thing.Investigation: Many fruits must be cooked through theon the market with
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ethylenecooked bananas, reporters contacted the Nanjing Agricultural and By-product Logistics Center Shen director, he told reporters that bananas this fruit from the tropics, Nanjing market bananas are mostly from Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi, to Nanjing road far away, if waiting for full maturity and then pick and sell, then to the hands of the public into rotten bananas.He said:
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basically fruit farmers will be in the banana six or seven ripe when the picking, and then immediately transported to the sales market, even if it is eight mature, it may be too late to rot on the road. It's not just bananas from the south, including tropical fruits such as mangoes, that are now

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cooked.
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, Shen said it is only a simple plant cooking agent, even if the fruit itself can exude ethylene this substance, he said that before the countryside someone planted persimmon trees, and then when the persimmon six or seven mature will beat them down, and then put them in their own rice bowl, this is an ancient method of ripening fruit, so that ripening is the use of fruit to produce the effect of ethylene.Expert: Don't expose children to ethylene Professor Yu Zhifang, from Nanjing Agricultural University's School of Food Science and Technology, who specializes in food processing and storage research, told reporters that ethylene is a chemical gas, its substance itself is not harmful to the human body. But ethylene is a gas, storage and transportation is very inconvenient, so early in the
scientists have developed


" chemical synthesis agent. At an early time, the World Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) made it clear that the chemical compound could be used in food storage.he told reporters:
ethylene
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is a liquid, when used to dilute with water, so the marketethylene
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packets can not contain
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ethylene
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ingredients, concentration will not be too high.
"He also said that in order for the fruit to look uniform in color when selling, selling can be added, you must use

ethylenethis substance, it can make the fruit evenly ripe. Tomatoes, kiwis and mangoes, which are now widely available on the market, are used, sometimes not just for ripeness, but also for adringent effects. 's impact on the human body, Professor Yu believes that ethylene is the release of gas, will be volatile in the air, so will not accumulate in human tissue, so it can be said that it is safe. But he also cautions that, like desiccants, this small package of chemicals should never be exposed to small children, otherwise eating by mistake can be dangerous. Banana-producing countries have adopted this approach said Zhang Xiyan, chief scientist of the national banana industry technology system and secretary-general of Hainan Banana Association, the use of ethylene is an indispensable part of the banana production process, the world widely used this method, will not cause harm to human health. agricultural science and technology experts pointed out that the international banana-producing countries are without exception the use of ethylene or ethylene to cook bananas, including Japan, Europe and the United States are importing such bananas. If you don't cook, wait until the bananas are ripe and then harvest them, then only people living in the banana-producing world will have bananas to eat.