Showing posts with label Vitamin A. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vitamin A. Show all posts

Monday, February 6, 2012

Chinese control food additive security problems

Food safety has been in recent years reflects the people most strong problems, and how to improve food safety coefficient, to guarantee the people’s health, it has also become a government most urgent work. March 15,, issued by the general office of the state council in 2011 “food safety Vitamin E the key work arrangements”, this is since 2009, office of the state council for the third straight year the food safety working to make important deployment of the documents, fully explain the state council on protecting the people’s diet security attach great importance and the improvement of organizational lead-ship of food safety work determination. The 2011 food safety the key work arrangements “will food additive problem as an important management six big problem. April 21,, the food and drug administration issued 2011 catering service food safety the key work arrangement plan, will seasoning and food additives listed as the key management.
 Long-term since, food additive has been quietly harm to people’s health. In the food preservatives, foreign food safety research institutions have authority research proves, the traditional preservatives benzene potassium sodium, potassium sorbet, phosphoric acid kind, D-different ascorbic acid 59-02-9 sodium etc, there exists serious harm human kidney, liver, the risk of skin, some even easier to cancer. Most foreign food production, processing enterprise has eliminated the traditional antiseptic, the use of non-toxic to human body in the new preservative cinnamic acid potassium. The United Nations food and agriculture organization (fao) and the world health organization daily intake of traditional preservatives human body the strict limit, to human body intake cinnamic acid potassium quantity is without any limitation requirements.
Our government although not mandatory use new preservative, but in a series of documents required to promote food antiseptic mentioned in new technology, new material Vitamin A , it suggests that role has is very strong. The government has clearly stated that is from food production, processing and our country new technology, new material present situation of consideration, but to people’s health is responsible for the safety, professional forecast, mandating the use of anticorrosive new materials, already is assured.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Vitamin A

Vitamin A is a vitamin that is needed by the retina of the eye in the form of a specific metabolite.In foods of animal origin, the major form of vitamin A is an ester, primarily retinyl palmitate.The carotenoid beta-cryptoxanthin possesses an ionone group and has vitamin activity in humans.The orange pigment of carrots – beta-carotene – can be represented as two connected retinyl groups, which are used in the body to contribute to vitamin A levels.
In other words, the IUs that these foods were reported to contain were worth much less than the same number of IUs of fat-dissolved oils and (to some extent) supplements. This is important for vegetarians, as Night blindness is prevalent in countries where little meat or vitamin A-fortified food additives are available.For healthy breastfed infants, the AI is the mean intake.
Vitamin A is A visual cells in experience of weak light venous blood components of venous blood by depending on the protein and quality is 11-the-retinaldehyde composition, and dark vision about. Plant tissues have not yet found vitamin A. Lack of vitamin A, affect human body, such as the ability to adapt to dark children dysplasia, the skin is dry, dry eyes, night blindness, etc.
Vitamin A, namely the various carotene, exists in plant food, such as vegetables, yellow, green vegetables and fruit class, content is the rich have spinach, alfalfa, peas seedlings, hearts sweet potatoes and carrots, green peppers, pumpkins, etc.; Another kind is from animal food vitamin A.Children's lack of vitamin A, the first appeared, followed the whole body night blindness is most epithelial tissue cutin degeneration and happen A secondary infection. Reason have inadequate intake, absorb bad, consume too much and metabolic resistance. The disease is seen in infants.

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