Is it legal to add food thickener

Introduction: many foods have additives Is it legal to add food thickener? Is it safe to add thickener to food? Let's learn more about it with the small edition of Baibai safety net The additives that can improve the physical properties of food, increase the viscosity of food, and give food a smooth and palatable taste are called thickeners Thickening agents can also be used as emulsifiers, and can also be used as gelation agents in some special foods There are many kinds of thickeners, including natural thickeners and chemical thickeners The natural thickener is mainly extracted from the animal bones and skins of seaweeds and sugary plants, such as alginate (salt), starch, Arabic gum, guar gum, carrageenan, pectin and agar The thickeners are CMC Na, propyl alginate and so on Thickeners are widely used in food industry Is it legal to add food thickener? It can be used in certain foods However, it is prohibited in milk In 2009, the Ministry of health banned illegal addition Experts said that pectin and gelatin are commonly used thickeners, and there is no specific numerical limit on their addition amount in the national food safety standard The reason why milk is forbidden is that such use covers the quality of milk and is not conducive to consumers' consumption According to the health standard for the use of food additives issued by the former Ministry of health, only vitamins and antioxidants are expressly allowed to be added, and thickeners are not allowed to be added It is understood that the main component of the thickener is xanthan gum, which is a national food additive However, it is also stipulated that xanthan gum is not allowed to be added in similar rice products, especially in breakfast We can see from the above that it is legal for thickeners to be added to food, but we should avoid choosing thickeners that are sold by irregular manufacturers or channels, or that are out of date Is it safe to add thickener to food ? if the thickener produced by irregular manufacturers is selected, or the thickener is expired or overused, the thickener added to the food will be unsafe However, if the thickener is used according to the normal dosage standard stipulated by the state, and the thickener produced by regular channels and manufacturers is selected, the thickener added to the food is safe We should dialectically look at the problems, analyze the quality of adding thickeners, actively understand food safety knowledge, master more problems of food additives, and correctly understand the problems of food thickeners For food safety, we can use food safety detector to detect whether there are harmful substances in food Editor in charge: he xianrob