The fake honey blended with alum, sugar and soy sauce is inexpensive and regular consumption can have adverse effects on human health.
Recently, there have been "false honey" incidents in many places in the country. There are illegal traders using alum, sugar and soy sauce to blend honey and get profits on the market.
The fake honey blended with alum, sugar, and soy sauce is inexpensive, but regular consumption can cause adverse effects on human health. The main hazard is the use of food pigments and alum used in the processing of fake honey. (From "Health News")
Alum eating too much health
First, excessive consumption of alum can affect the intake of other essential mineral elements. The main chemical composition of alum is aluminum potassium sulfate, containing aluminum ions, excessive intake of aluminum ions will affect the body's absorption of iron, calcium, zinc, copper, manganese, magnesium and other essential minerals, may lead to osteoporosis, anemia, etc. The occurrence of a series of illnesses, all of which were confirmed in animal experiments.
Second, it may lead to dementia. Often eat fritters and other foods containing alum, which aluminum ions can accumulate in the liver, brain, kidneys, spleen and other organs, if excessive accumulation in the brain, it will destroy the nervous system, reduce the activity of antioxidant enzymes, affect the brain The antioxidant system causes memory loss, mental decline, and senile dementia.
In addition, it may also cause genotoxicity, leading to infertility, reproductive malformations, etc.
Finally, its impact on the development of children and adolescents is also great. Aluminium ions in alum can cause reduction in absorption of iron, zinc, copper, manganese, calcium, and magnesium ions, and cause lipid peroxidation, affect the activity of antioxidant enzymes, and cause brain tissue damage. As a result, children and adolescents may experience mental retardation, delayed sexual development, anemia, decreased memory, calcium deficiency, and reduced immunity.
At present, our country stipulates that edible alum can be used as a food additive, such as in fried foods, aquatic products, soy products, baking powder, wafer biscuits, puffed foods, and shrimp chips, but it is not used for doses. Clear regulations. Since the main cause of health problems in the alum is aluminum ion, the aluminum ion residue in the food has been specified: the limit of aluminum in the surface food is 100 mg/kg.
How to identify genuine and fake honey?
1. Appearance: From the viewpoint of viscosity and fluidity, the real honey is generally greater than the fake honey. In addition, pure honey contains mainly fructose and glucose, in which the content of glucose is relatively high and it is relatively easy to crystallize, while adulterated honey is not easily crystallized.
2. Color: True honey color does not look very clear, white, light yellow or amber, light color is preferred; fake honey bright color, generally light yellow or dark yellow.
3. Odor: False honey may have a more attractive odor, but it is the taste of sugar. True honey generally has a faint scent of plant flowers.
4. Taste: The entrance of the fake honey is very sweet. After the sweet taste, it is a bitter or astringent taste. It is slightly similar to the taste of some cough syrups on the market. The sweet honey tastes sweet and does not produce bitterness and astringency.