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    Why can we eat gold foil

    • Last Update: 2019-12-09
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Introduction: in recent years, gold foil is popular in Japan and Southeast Asia Gold foil feast, gold foil wine, gold foil water, gold foil candy and gold foil pastry come out one after another So why can we eat gold foil? Edible gold foil is made of gold bars with 99.99% gold content After more than ten special processes such as chemical polyester, hammering and foil cutting, it has a golden color, bright and soft, as light as a feather, as thin as a cicada wing, and less than 0.12 μ m in thickness Do you know why edible gold foil can be eaten? Next, let's introduce Baibai safety net in detail The history of edible gold foil is the first in China As far back as the Qin and Han Dynasties, the rich people in China have recorded the consumption of gold foil and gold powder Nowadays, Japan and Southeast Asia also eat gold foil The pure gold with purity of 99.99% is vaporized physically to make it evenly dispersed into small molecules, and then these small gold molecules are re stacked to precisely control the molecular epitaxial stack to form the food additive gold foil In 1983, the World Health Organization Codex Committee on food additives formally listed 9999 natural pure gold as table a No 310 in the category of food additives The eighth category of minerals and microelements released by the Ministry of health of the people's Republic of China defines the edible function of gold foil Gold foil has a long history of medical value For example, "Niuhuang Angong pill", "Niuhuang Qingxin pill", "Niuhuang Jiangya pill", "Wuji Baifeng pill", "Dahuoluo pill" and other precious Chinese patent medicines of Tongrentang, a famous Chinese patent medicine in China, are all formulated with gold foil or wrapped with gold foil In our country, gold foil is also used as a way for children's fear The above is the knowledge about why edible gold foil can be eaten compiled by Xiaobian I hope it can help you who are interested Do you want to know more about edible gold foil? Please continue to follow the next update of Baibai safety net Editor in charge: Chen miaoqi
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