Food preservative You Need to Know

Identify safe food preservatives consumed, and that could endanger the health!

Had felt uneasy with the food preservatives that can harm health? You are not alone. However, you need to know that not all harmful food preservatives.

To quote from the site POM, if the food preservatives that have passed the test is used in accordance labrotarium limits means we consume is safe. Preservative is safe for consumption, among other types of benzoic acid and salts, sorbat, and propionic, sulfur dioxide and sulfite, nitrite and nitrate, sodium chloride, sugar, acid, nisin, natamycin, subtilin, and the antioxidants BHA and BHT.

Benzoate is used to preserve the soft drink and ketchup, and fruit juice, tomato sauce, chili sauce, jams and jellies, sweets, order, and other foods. Propionic a preservative for bread and processed cheese. Sorbat usually used to preserve the margarine, fruit juice concentrates, and cheese.

Sulfites are a preservative for cut fries, frozen shrimp, and pineapple juice concentrates. Whereas nitrite can be used as preservatives of processed meats such as sausages, canned korned, or cheese.

Of course, there are additional materials used for food is prohibited. Chemicals are classified as hazardous substances in the food, the boric acid, salicylic acid, dietilpirokarbonat, dulsin, potassium khlorat, chloramphenicol, dibrominasi vegetable oils, nitrofurazon, and formalin.

However, you need to know, do not get complacent when buying groceries. Should note the following:

- Check the nutritional composition of what is contained in the food listed on the label.

- Observe whether the food is bright or very different from its original color. Snacks, crackers, noodles, or ice cream too flashy colored dyes may be added. Likewise, the color of processed beef to the color red as fresh meat.

- Try taste. Usually, we just jelly tongue distinguish between safe and not. Unsafe food is generally sharp taste, very tasty and makes the tongue 'sting'.

- Smell the aroma. Stale or rancid smell of the food sign is damaged / contaminated with microorganisms.

- Be careful, safety criteria were varied. Safe for one person may not be for others. Could have on a particular child preservatives may cause allergic reactions.

- Consider, if the food has been registered in BPOM (Agency for Drugs and Food) and the Public Health Service that can be seen from the packaging labels.