How does the "hormonal food era" protect health
2018-05-13 20:00:49
Many people will have such a feeling that in recent years the watermelon is not sweet, the vegetables have no taste, the pork and chicken are not fragrant, and the fish is not so delicious, so some of the chickens and soil pigs that look less beautiful, and the farmers themselves Kinds of farm dishes, etc. have become "treasures" on the city's people's table...
In response to this phenomenon, nutrition experts pointed out that the development of science and technology has brought about the diversification of food, and people's excessive pursuit of economic benefits has led to the abuse of various types of hormones and chemical fertilizers, and also declared the advent of “the era of low-nutrient foodâ€.
Hormone Food: Good looks and low nutrition
It is understood that there are more and more vegetables and fruits in the morning market. Most of these fruits and vegetables are harvested before they reach maturity, and a large number of chemical hormones such as swelling agents, redners and ripening agents are used before they are put on sale. In the process of ripening it to make it look better, like long-sharp tomatoes, strawberries or watermelons with large cavities, but some of them look ripe and eaten. The tasteless bananas or pineapples are due to the addition of chemical hormones.
In addition, the use of bulking agents will cause cells of fruits and vegetables to expand abnormally, and the shapes will become more peculiar. Some of the ingredients such as amino acids and sugar are insufficient, resulting in poor taste and reduced nutrition. The fruits and vegetables include litchi, kiwi, watermelon, strawberry, cherry, and tomato.
According to the measurement results of food experts, greenhouse vegetables contain less chlorophyll, vitamin C, sugar, minerals, calcium, iron and other nutrients than normal growing vegetables in Daejeon, and harmful substances such as nitrite and arsenic It is higher than Daejeon vegetables.
Food experts: long-term intake of harmful health
Professor Huang He from the School of Food Science and Technology at Zhanjiang Ocean University, said that excessive consumption of foods containing chemical hormones can cause children to become precocious and, for adults, affect or even destroy the liver, kidneys and other human organs, and also destroy the intestines. The beneficial bacteria in the road, or even worse, may cause cancer. Due to insufficient feeding time, resulting in lack of nutrition, eggs that originally contained more than 40 kinds of nutrients, due to the use of chemical hormones, not only did not meet the standard of nutrition, harmful substances were exceeded, but more serious was the lack of nutrition that made people suffer from Rickets.
Li Naijian, deputy director of the Guangzhou Food Quality Inspection Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that in the natural maturation process, fruit will release a small amount of ethylene to ripen bananas, persimmons, apples, etc. The amount of different fruits produced will also be different, but in general, all are In a safe area. If artificially added ethylene is ripened, there is no standard for its concentration, so there is no limit to its use, but it can be confirmed that excessive intake of ethylene can cause cancer.
Authoritative departments: Use within a safe range does not harm health
Regarding the hormonal food problem, a person in charge of the marketing department of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture stated that at present, the state has specific regulations for the use of hormones in foods, and must be within the scope of safety. Different hormones have different standards, such as plant hormones must be The use of plants during a certain period of growth does not occur after ripe harvesting; some are forbidden to use. In addition, the responsible person also said that the use of hormones within the scope of safety will not cause harm to human health.
So how can we stop the use of hormones in food? The person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce believes that the reason for the existence of hormone foods lies in the fact that the interests drive some departments to develop a lot of hormones, which can be applied to the growth of crops, or to the feeding of livestock. However, the person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture said that the application of hormones is to shorten the growth period of plants in the safe range, increase economic benefits, and meet the needs of the community. For the food hormone content is not in the safe range, it is necessary for the relevant departments to monitor.
According to informed sources, food containing hormones can be detected by equipment, but the cost of testing is particularly high. Taking fruits and melons as an example, the inspection cost for a unit is 200-800 yuan, and the inspection cost for meat is much higher. This is the reason why hormone-type foods are popular.
Deep reasons: lack of interest-driven regulation
Informed sources also revealed that the natural life span of chickens is 7 years, but some broiler chickens have a growing period of only 7 weeks. When the chickens are hatched, they feed them on a “fed duck†basis and they are allowed to grow in small, unsanitary chicken cages. Even then, the chickens cannot be grown in a short period of 49 days. The finished meat product for human consumption. Therefore, growth hormones, antibiotics, etc. become indispensable materials in chicken feed. A study at the University of Melbourne, Australia, showed that 70% of chickens in the market had eye disease, 30% had a cough, and 15% had asthma and chronic bronchitis. The animal nutrition of such animal food can be imagined. In addition, many farmers add fast fattening feed to the feed of poultry, which greatly shortens the growth period of the livestock. The fattening pigs can be slaughtered as long as four months. These livestock not only grow fast but also have a relatively large weight, which is very significant from the perspective of economic efficiency.
As for the standard of use of ripeners in fruits and vegetables, Professor Huang He from the School of Food Science and Technology at Zhanjiang Ocean University stated that the international community has long been banned, but no standard has been introduced in China. Li Naijian said that at present national and industry standards do not have explicit indicators for the types, concentrations, and timing of ripening agents. Therefore, the quality inspection department has not tested the hormone content as one of its contents when testing food products.
Although the state has stipulated that chemical hormones are forbidden to use in the breeding of animals, the national quality inspection, health, industry and commerce departments have also supervised this, but due to the lack of coordination among the various departments, the intensity of supervision is insufficient. There are still many phenomena in the market that use chemical hormones to fertilize animals during animal husbandry.
Expert Weapons: How to Identify Hormone Foods
Nowadays, there are a wide variety of foods containing chemical hormones on the market, and it is difficult to discern with the naked eye. In this regard, Director Tan Zhongsheng of the Guangdong Provincial Green Food Office stated that consumers must choose green certified foods when purchasing them, because they are not allowed to use any chemical hormones in green foods and organic foods. Consumers can feel comfortable eating them.
In addition, the experts also reminded consumers not to buy ripe fruit. If the fruits listed on the market before half a month to one month before maturity, the color is good-looking, it is possible that the ripening agents were used, even if they were not used. Cook, fruit is also not delicious, and low nutritional value.
Although mature fruits exhibit mature traits, the skin or other aspects of the fruit are still immature. For example, the natural mature watermelon, due to adequate light, so the melon skin color bright, clear stripes, old guati knot; ripe watermelon melon skin color is fresh, light stripes, Guaty blue.
Second, it can be distinguished by smelling the fruit. Naturally mature fruits, most of them can smell a fruity scent on the epidermis. The ripening fruit not only has no fruity odor, but also has an off-taste. The overripe fruit can often smell the fermented odor.
The ripe fruit has a distinct characteristic, that is, the weight is heavier. Fruits of the same size and the same size, ripening are much heavier than naturally matured, and are easily identifiable.
In response to this phenomenon, nutrition experts pointed out that the development of science and technology has brought about the diversification of food, and people's excessive pursuit of economic benefits has led to the abuse of various types of hormones and chemical fertilizers, and also declared the advent of “the era of low-nutrient foodâ€.
Hormone Food: Good looks and low nutrition
It is understood that there are more and more vegetables and fruits in the morning market. Most of these fruits and vegetables are harvested before they reach maturity, and a large number of chemical hormones such as swelling agents, redners and ripening agents are used before they are put on sale. In the process of ripening it to make it look better, like long-sharp tomatoes, strawberries or watermelons with large cavities, but some of them look ripe and eaten. The tasteless bananas or pineapples are due to the addition of chemical hormones.
In addition, the use of bulking agents will cause cells of fruits and vegetables to expand abnormally, and the shapes will become more peculiar. Some of the ingredients such as amino acids and sugar are insufficient, resulting in poor taste and reduced nutrition. The fruits and vegetables include litchi, kiwi, watermelon, strawberry, cherry, and tomato.
According to the measurement results of food experts, greenhouse vegetables contain less chlorophyll, vitamin C, sugar, minerals, calcium, iron and other nutrients than normal growing vegetables in Daejeon, and harmful substances such as nitrite and arsenic It is higher than Daejeon vegetables.
Food experts: long-term intake of harmful health
Professor Huang He from the School of Food Science and Technology at Zhanjiang Ocean University, said that excessive consumption of foods containing chemical hormones can cause children to become precocious and, for adults, affect or even destroy the liver, kidneys and other human organs, and also destroy the intestines. The beneficial bacteria in the road, or even worse, may cause cancer. Due to insufficient feeding time, resulting in lack of nutrition, eggs that originally contained more than 40 kinds of nutrients, due to the use of chemical hormones, not only did not meet the standard of nutrition, harmful substances were exceeded, but more serious was the lack of nutrition that made people suffer from Rickets.
Li Naijian, deputy director of the Guangzhou Food Quality Inspection Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that in the natural maturation process, fruit will release a small amount of ethylene to ripen bananas, persimmons, apples, etc. The amount of different fruits produced will also be different, but in general, all are In a safe area. If artificially added ethylene is ripened, there is no standard for its concentration, so there is no limit to its use, but it can be confirmed that excessive intake of ethylene can cause cancer.
Authoritative departments: Use within a safe range does not harm health
Regarding the hormonal food problem, a person in charge of the marketing department of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture stated that at present, the state has specific regulations for the use of hormones in foods, and must be within the scope of safety. Different hormones have different standards, such as plant hormones must be The use of plants during a certain period of growth does not occur after ripe harvesting; some are forbidden to use. In addition, the responsible person also said that the use of hormones within the scope of safety will not cause harm to human health.
So how can we stop the use of hormones in food? The person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce believes that the reason for the existence of hormone foods lies in the fact that the interests drive some departments to develop a lot of hormones, which can be applied to the growth of crops, or to the feeding of livestock. However, the person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture said that the application of hormones is to shorten the growth period of plants in the safe range, increase economic benefits, and meet the needs of the community. For the food hormone content is not in the safe range, it is necessary for the relevant departments to monitor.
According to informed sources, food containing hormones can be detected by equipment, but the cost of testing is particularly high. Taking fruits and melons as an example, the inspection cost for a unit is 200-800 yuan, and the inspection cost for meat is much higher. This is the reason why hormone-type foods are popular.
Deep reasons: lack of interest-driven regulation
Informed sources also revealed that the natural life span of chickens is 7 years, but some broiler chickens have a growing period of only 7 weeks. When the chickens are hatched, they feed them on a “fed duck†basis and they are allowed to grow in small, unsanitary chicken cages. Even then, the chickens cannot be grown in a short period of 49 days. The finished meat product for human consumption. Therefore, growth hormones, antibiotics, etc. become indispensable materials in chicken feed. A study at the University of Melbourne, Australia, showed that 70% of chickens in the market had eye disease, 30% had a cough, and 15% had asthma and chronic bronchitis. The animal nutrition of such animal food can be imagined. In addition, many farmers add fast fattening feed to the feed of poultry, which greatly shortens the growth period of the livestock. The fattening pigs can be slaughtered as long as four months. These livestock not only grow fast but also have a relatively large weight, which is very significant from the perspective of economic efficiency.
As for the standard of use of ripeners in fruits and vegetables, Professor Huang He from the School of Food Science and Technology at Zhanjiang Ocean University stated that the international community has long been banned, but no standard has been introduced in China. Li Naijian said that at present national and industry standards do not have explicit indicators for the types, concentrations, and timing of ripening agents. Therefore, the quality inspection department has not tested the hormone content as one of its contents when testing food products.
Although the state has stipulated that chemical hormones are forbidden to use in the breeding of animals, the national quality inspection, health, industry and commerce departments have also supervised this, but due to the lack of coordination among the various departments, the intensity of supervision is insufficient. There are still many phenomena in the market that use chemical hormones to fertilize animals during animal husbandry.
Expert Weapons: How to Identify Hormone Foods
Nowadays, there are a wide variety of foods containing chemical hormones on the market, and it is difficult to discern with the naked eye. In this regard, Director Tan Zhongsheng of the Guangdong Provincial Green Food Office stated that consumers must choose green certified foods when purchasing them, because they are not allowed to use any chemical hormones in green foods and organic foods. Consumers can feel comfortable eating them.
In addition, the experts also reminded consumers not to buy ripe fruit. If the fruits listed on the market before half a month to one month before maturity, the color is good-looking, it is possible that the ripening agents were used, even if they were not used. Cook, fruit is also not delicious, and low nutritional value.
Although mature fruits exhibit mature traits, the skin or other aspects of the fruit are still immature. For example, the natural mature watermelon, due to adequate light, so the melon skin color bright, clear stripes, old guati knot; ripe watermelon melon skin color is fresh, light stripes, Guaty blue.
Second, it can be distinguished by smelling the fruit. Naturally mature fruits, most of them can smell a fruity scent on the epidermis. The ripening fruit not only has no fruity odor, but also has an off-taste. The overripe fruit can often smell the fermented odor.
The ripe fruit has a distinct characteristic, that is, the weight is heavier. Fruits of the same size and the same size, ripening are much heavier than naturally matured, and are easily identifiable.