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    After I bought the fried dough sticks, I lost a circle. Is it aluminum?

    • Last Update: 2021-08-26
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Ma Guansheng
     
    According to the Internet, don’t eat foods such as deep-fried dough sticks and steamed buns, because these foods contain a substance that makes people “dumb”—aluminum
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    is this real? What is the truth? Some foods contain aluminum.
    The main source of aluminum is a food additive called alum
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    Alum is also called alum.
    Its chemical name is potassium aluminum sulfate (potassium alum) or aluminum ammonium sulfate (ammonium alum).
    It is a common food additive
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    This food additive can react with carbonate to produce carbon dioxide gas, which makes the dough form a porous structure, which has the effect of bulking and softness
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    In addition to being a leavening agent, alum can also be used as a curing agent for jellyfish processing and can help shape vermicelli vermicelli
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    Alum is also often used as a coagulant in water purification to precipitate impurities in the water
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    According to national food safety standards, alum can be used as a leavening agent or stabilizer in bean products, batter, fried noodles, shrimp flakes, baked foods, jellyfish, vermicelli, and vermicelli
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    Therefore, these foods often contain more aluminum.
    Common ones include jellyfish, fried dough sticks, oil cakes, twists, buns, crispy, vermicelli and so on
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    China's national food safety standards stipulate that the aluminum residue in wheat flour products such as fried dough sticks is less than 100 mg per kilogram
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    According to the assessment of an authoritative international organization, if a person weighing 60 kg consumes no more than 120 mg of aluminum per week, it will not cause aluminum to accumulate in the body and harm their health
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    These foods that allow the use of alum are not the main foods that Chinese residents eat in large quantities every day, and their consumption is not high, and the national standards also have strict limits on the amount of aluminum residues in these foods, so under normal circumstances, these foods will not consume too much.
    Aluminum
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    For those foods that we eat a lot every day, such as steamed buns, steamed cakes and other noodle products, as well as puffed foods that children often eat, the state has banned the addition of alum
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    Soy milk fritters is a standard breakfast for many people.
    Although national standards allow the use of alum when frying fritters, you need to use more alum to achieve the best results in fried fritters, which may cause the aluminum content to exceed the standard, so every day Consumption of fritters with excessive aluminum may have adverse health effects
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    Therefore, although fried dough sticks are fragrant, you can't eat them often!
     
    An article on the Internet wrote about the method of judging whether you tiao steamed buns have excessive aluminum, saying that “you tiao was bought home and found that it was “slim a circle”, and it was hard to bite, sticky, and very tough.
    It is very likely that there will be added content.
    "Aluminum leavening agent", this identification method is unreliable, and it may also be true for fritters without aluminum
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    Regarding steamed buns, particularly soft steamed buns may contain aluminum, or they may be noodles and soft
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    In addition, there is no basis for saying that "vitamin C can react with aluminum to promote its excretion from the body"
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