Citric acid soaked lotus with non-toxic experts: do not demonize food additives

Report from our correspondent (reporter correspondent Yao Linxuan Zou Chanjuan) in the vegetable market to buy lotus with white and tender, so people questioned traders "beauty", traders also admitted: indeed beauty, with is citric acid. Then this citric acid was demonized, recently, a global citric acid lotus that has widely aroused public concern. Citric acid shouted: I was safe, what drugs have? Yesterday, Wuhan Municipal Food and drug supervision and Management Bureau experts Kangkang sister stood up, she said, citric acid soaked lotus root zone is safe, you can rest assured that food, but also to remind the public, please distinguish between food additives and the illegal additives, not to demonise the food additive.

Yesterday, citric acid soak lotus root with event, Wuhan Municipal Food and drug law enforcement corps staff Jin Wei Liu also said that natural citric acid in nature distribution is very wide and citric acid can be used in food processing, there is no strict limit rules, "eat contain citric acid food is safe."

Sister Kangkang said that after picking lotus color will turn yellow, so, in order to sell a good friend, traders will use citric acid soak, lotus root zone becomes white and tender, as members of the public are also put forward in this paper is not to use bleach bleach. The following set of small experiments can illustrate the problem.

The reporter bought 1 pounds of lotus root zone, divided into two parts, respectively with citric acid and bleach soak for 3 hours.

Two copies of the lotus is all white, but with citric acid soaked lotus with his hand on a breaking and obviously brittle, and bleaching agent soaked lotus root zone with a smell, beyond the hand a break.

Jin Wei Luu said pick lotus root zone, there are two strokes, first heard whether there is a "smell" and by hand fold with a lotus root, if the taste also not brittle, it is best not to buy.

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