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    What kind of food is the compound thickener used for

    • Last Update: 2017-09-18
    • Source: Internet
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    Introduction: in order to meet the needs of more and more new products, we use more and more kinds of thickeners So, what kind of food is the compound Thickener Used in? Is it safe to add thickeners to food? About these questions, we can ask the small edition of Baibai safety net to answer Thickener, also known as gelling agent, is also known as paste or food gel when used in food It can increase the viscosity of the system and keep the system in a uniform stable suspension state or opacification state, or form a gel Widely used in food, coating, adhesive, cosmetics, detergent, printing and dyeing, rubber, medicine and other fields Thickeners are mostly hydrophilic polymer compounds, which can be divided into animal, plant, mineral, synthetic or semi synthetic according to their sources It can be simply divided into two categories: natural and synthetic Most of the natural products are made from the plants and seaweeds containing polysaccharide viscous substances, such as starch, pectin, agar, gelatin, seaweed fat, carrageenan, dextrin, astragalus, polysaccharide derivatives, etc; The synthetic products include methylcellulose, carboxymethylcellulose and other cellulose derivatives, starch derivatives, casein, sodium polyacrylate, polyethylene oxide, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, polyvinyl alcohol, low molecular polyethylene wax, polyacrylamide, etc What kind of food is the compound Thickener Used in This paper introduces that the compound thickener can be used in meat products, meat filling, frozen juice meat, milk sugar, fruit juice soft candy, nougat, toffee, ice cream, sour milk products, beer clarifier, compound emulsion stabilizer, health food, salad, pudding, icing, mayonnaise, gelatin soft candy, pastry, meat can, ham sausage, ice cream and ice point heart, jam, granular food All kinds of can, soft drink and margarine, yoghurt, beverage, jelly and other food compound thickener can be used Then, is it safe to add thickener to food? Food thickener is a kind of food additive allowed by the state Usually, the manufacturer will not add too much thickener, because it will directly affect the concentration and taste Therefore, the thickener added to food is usually safe But we can not rule out that there are bad businesses adding too much thickener, which has a certain impact on the human body Therefore, we should pay attention to the knowledge of food safety and master the dosage standards of some food additives, which is good for us If we have doubts about food safety, we can also use the food safety detector to check whether the food is really safe Editor in charge: he xianrob
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