What is the composition of emulsifier

Introduction: Although we don't use emulsifier in our daily life, we can't lack emulsifier in our life The bread, ice cream and other foods we eat all contain emulsifier What are the ingredients of emulsifier? Is it harmful to eat emulsifier? Let's explain it to you through the safety net Food emulsifier is a kind of material which can improve the surface tension between various components in the emulsification system and form uniform dispersion or emulsion, also known as surfactant In other words, it is a kind of food additive that can change the complementary phase liquid into the evenly dispersed phase (emulsion), and add a small amount of it can significantly reduce the interfacial tension between oil and water, and produce emulsification effect As a common food additive, emulsifier is used to process food to help preserve food texture and extend shelf life China has approved the use of food emulsifiers: more than 30 products such as Sipan, Twain, sodium stearyl lactate calcium, sodium stearyl lactate, triglyceride, propylene glycol fatty acid ester, sucrose ester, soybean phospholipid, lauric acid monoglyceride, etc Among them, the products of liquid emulsifier include: liquid monoglyceride (i.e monooleic acid glyceride), soybean phospholipid, Tween series products, monooctanoic acid (or caprylic acid) glyceride and other products What is the composition of emulsifier? It is mainly composed of monodiglyceride (e471) and natural organic fatty acid (E472) Monodiglyceride (e471) Their chemical synthesis is very simple: different fatty acids react with excess glycerol and are purified Nowadays, monoglycerides are widely used in various industrial food production As the basis of many special types of emulsifiers, there are many of these natural organic fatty acids (E472) esterified with glycerol, such as acetem esterified with acetic acid, lacteme esterified with lactic acid, CITREM esterified with citric acid, and monoglyceride (diglyceride) DATEM of diacetyl tartaric acid In this way, a variety of seemingly complex emulsifiers can be simply and specifically classified into specific applications Is it harmful to eat emulsifier? Researchers from biomedical research institute have found that emulsifier can change the composition and position of intestinal flora to induce intestinal inflammation, promote inflammatory bowel disease and metabolic syndrome The team is now testing more emulsifiers to see how they affect humans If there are similar results in human body, it will show that such food emulsifiers do play a role in the prevalence of obesity and various chronic intestinal inflammation related diseases Therefore, when we eat emulsifier, we should treat it correctly In order to our health, we should eat less or no emulsifier food as much as possible, and we should not eat too much emulsifier It is not good to eat too much of any substance If possible, we can use food safety detector To detect the content of emulsifier in food, because we know little about emulsifier, we need to learn more about food safety to help us understand food safety issues Editor in charge: he xianrob