Qingdao: Chestnut is too sweet because of the addition of saccharin? The Peninsula Journalist Experiment uncovers the truth.

The street
chestnuts
fragrance, many people love to buy a packet of sugar fried chestnuts as a snack, but recently some foreign media on sugar fried chestnuts are really
saccharides
chestnuts" reports, so that many people have uneasiness, what is the situation in Qingdao? Can you eat sugar-fried chestnuts everywhere on the street? To this end, the reporter from the
dried fruit
shop and street stalls to buy different kinds of sugar fried chestnuts, go to the
experiment
room to find out exactly..Many shops said that no sugar added 25, the reporter visited the city's south, north of the city a number of fried shops and roadside stalls. In Shandong Road and Yanji Road near the intersection of a small stall, in addition to put melon seeds, peanuts and other fried goods, there are some bright sugar fried chestnuts, when the reporter asked
surge chestnuts
looks bright because of the addition of sugar, the stall owner admitted that "although called sugar fried chestnuts, but I this chestnut did not add sugar." She told reporters, in fact, chestnuts itself is very sweet, added sugar can not seep inside, so she asked not to add, as for the shell oil bright, it is because "put the cooking oil, fried up to save energy, selling phase is also good." "During the visit, the reporter found that there are many cases of sugar-fried chestnuts without sugar. At a frying shop near Wanda on Yanji Road, the chestnuts are small and have little luster on the outside, much like the raw chestnuts on the market, "We don't fry them with any sugar." The clerk told reporters. Reporters observed that there are many citizens are lining up to buy sugar fried chestnuts, "units are relatively close, I often come to buy 10 yuan chestnuts as snacks." Ms. Ma, a citizen, said that although the sugar-fried chestnuts here are not sugary, they are still very sweet to eat. The reporter then came to a fried shop in Jiangxi Road, when the reporter asked his family to sell sugar fried chestnuts added sugar, the shop assistant said "plus maltose." "But she admits that the purpose of adding maltose is not to add sweetness, but to lubricate the sand, " fried well.Then, the reporter came to the gate of the farmers' market near Darunfa, and saw at a stall selling sugar-fried chestnuts that some chestnuts were stirring rhythmicly along with the gravel, and that chestnuts were bursting from time to time., and the reporter observed that many of his family's chestnuts have cracked their mouths, and a touch of fried chestnuts will have a lot of dust on the hands, "fire waiting for big so chestnuts burst open, dust is actually fried when stained with sand, nothing." The stallholder said. Asked if fried chestnuts would add saccharide, the stallholder immediately said no and said, "We're using sugar." It took more than half the white sugar to pull a large bag out of the table..No sodium saccharin was detected in any of the four samplesaccording to the latest national standard,
Food Additives Standard
(GB 2760-2014), the maximum addition of sodium saccharin in "shell cooked nuts" is 1.2g/kg. And in the day's visit, all the merchants said their own sugar fried chestnuts without saccharide, is this really the case? Reporters immediately from the above-mentioned shop each purchased 4 sugar fried chestnuts, came to the city's southern region of the eight Great Lakes drug store food inspection room for testing..Experimental processsample treatment: chestnut sampling after adding 20 ml of distilled water soakedblank liquid production: take a 10 ml plug test tube, add 20 ml of distilled water, add the reagent A2 ml, reagent B500 microliter, placed for 5 minutes. Add dichloromethane 5 ml cap shake well, sit for 5 minutes, layer, and remove the layer of liquid in the color dish, put into the instrument for blank control..Sample liquid production: take a 10 ml plug test tube, add 20 ml sample treatment liquid, add reagent A2 ml, reagent B500 microliter, place for 5 minutes. Add dichloromethane 5 ml cap shake well, sit for 5 minutes, layer, and remove the layer of liquid in the color dish, put into the instrument for testing..Test results: The results showed that 4 samples were not detected sodium saccharin, the results were qualified..Sweet to bitter or due to the addition of saccharinsodium saccharin (saccharin) chemical name is phthalates sulfonamide, odorless, soluble in water, sweetness of sucrose 300 times, without any nutritional value. According to the Municipal Health Supervision Bureau
five food safety
chief expert Ni Xiaomei, when the sodium concentration of saccharin is high or used alone will have a metallic taste, bitter taste, affecting the taste of food, so as a sweetener, sodium saccharin is often mixed with other flavoring substances. From the test results, 4 samples were not detected paraffin and sodium saccharin, but this does not mean that all chestnuts on the market can be assured, so buy sugar fried chestnuts to pay special attention. "If you buy chestnuts that are particularly sweet or even bitter, it's probably an excess of saccharine.".According to the report, good quality chestnuts, meat color is golden yellow, if found fried chestnut appearance black shiny or even reflective, cool will be white, put into the water will have oil floating, long-term placement will not fade color, such chestnuts are mostly added industrial paraffin. In addition, if the sugar-fried chestnuts have a strong sugary taste, it is possible to add saccharine. At the same time, in the selection of chestnuts, try not to pick open chestnuts, open chestnut meat will be directly exposed to high temperatures, starch may form a carcinogen acrylamide. Also, choose to close the chestnuts, even if the merchant added sodium saccharin, can not enter the chestnut inside..Interview reporters learned that many citizens in the peeling of chestnuts will bite with their teeth, "sometimes not very good peeling, I am with teeth bite away." Mr. Liu, a citizen, said. In this regard, experts said, this is very unsanistery, one, chestnut skin may be adhered to small sand particles, will be directly with the inlet. Second, in case there are additives, they all eat into the mouth.
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