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    What are the food additives used in pickles

    • Last Update: 2017-04-20
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    Introduction: salted products include pickles, bacon, salted eggs, etc Pickled food is very popular, so what are the food additives used in pickled products? Salting is to let a large number of salt into the food organization to achieve the purpose of preserving food These processed foods are called pickled products Salted products include pickles, bacon, salted eggs, etc Vegetable pickles can be divided into three categories: pickles (dry, semi dry and wet pickles), pickles (pickles with sweet sauce or salty sauce) Fermented products (rice wine and rice lees were used for pickling) Bacon includes fish and meat products, including bacon, salted beef, salted fish, wind meat, bacon, duck, etc Salted eggs are products made by soaking in salty water or sticking to salty soil and adding lime, soda ash and other auxiliary materials, mainly including salted eggs, salted duck eggs, salted goose eggs and preserved eggs So what are the food additives used in pickled products? Food additives will be used in pickled food, for example, chemical methods to reduce nitrite mainly include: adding natural substances to block the synthesis of nitrosamines, such as garlic juice, ginger juice, aloe juice, etc; Add some bacteriostatic agents to replace the role of nitrite, such as ascorbic acid, citric acid, etc., its mechanism is also to block the combination of nitroso and secondary amine, to prevent the production of nitrosamine; add some substances that can play a similar role in nitrite color or anti-corrosion, such as Monascus pigment, ascorbic acid, etc Nowadays, many foods have food additives, so what is food additives? In fact, food additives are synthetic or natural substances added into food to improve the quality of food such as color, fragrance and taste, as well as the needs of antisepsis and processing technology Some food additives are harmful to human body, but China's food safety detector can accurately check whether the food is safe and whether there is excessive use of additives, so that we can eat food more safely If you want to know more about food additives, please go to Baibai safety net Editor in charge: he xianrob
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