When choosing quality products in the store, you need to pay attention not to “Eshki”, but the date of manufacture, the storage conditions, the shelf life, said the head of the laboratory of food chemistry of the federal research center of the food, biotechnology and food safety Vladimir Bezdov, writes “Prime” .
There is a myth in society that supplements, dyes, essences are harmful to health. Part of the Russians are studying in detail the composition and do not buy if there are more than two “e” in the ingredients. The scientist believes that instead of searching for e-additives, consumers must focus on more important parameters. According to him, the presence of food additives in itself is not yet a reason for anxiety.
“I do not know where people got that there are” natural “products and” synthetic “. How can this be if we live on one planet and all the elements – its derivatives? I think the biggest revelation will be natural for them.” Eshek “,” put a point in the dispute about the danger of these substances a biologist.
Bessov led as an example, as the hostesses in the kitchen themselves create an E262, mixing vinegar with soda (E260 and E500). According to him, flavors, nutritional supplements have always been put into products, but not always indicated on the label. “And 99 percent of all nutritional supplements are natural substances obtained in the processing of products. In particular, lemon acid (E330) is made from lemon,” added specialist.
Previously, the chemist-technologist Sergey Belkov dispelled the myth that E-additives could cause harm to the body. According to him, the concentration of additives in the products is so small that it cannot harm the body, whether it is a child or an adult.