Experts pointed out that color food affects children's appetite, color food mostly added pigment, is not conducive to the healthy growth of children.
Lixia District, a supermarket on the food counter, put a pile of color snacks. After checking the product packaging one by one, the reporter found that the main raw materials of edible pigment added were caramel pigment and potassium sorbate.
Li yingsui, doctor of Shandong Food Science and Nutrition Association, said potassium sorbate is a kind of sweetener that children like. Once the taste is paralyzed by them, the child remembers the taste and falls in love with it. But potassium sorbate is a laxative ingredient, too much intake can cause diarrhea. In European and American countries, the label of this kind of food will indicate "excessive intake may cause mild diarrhea".
Sometimes manufacturers will add some colorful preserved fruit and pulp in jelly and cakes, which are very popular with children. However, the auxiliary material used in this kind of fruit milk tea is not real fruit, but a kind of raw material called 'fruit powder'. The various preserved fruits and pulp are also processed products with pigment ingredients added.
Caramel pigment is also a kind of food additive, it contains arsenic, lead, mercury and other toxic elements. If these elements are taken too much, it will cause children anorexia, precocious puberty, liver and kidney function will be seriously damaged.