12 kinds of poisonous fruits of artificial birth
“Poisonous” fruit are mostly super-range, super-dose use of chemical agents, a serious threat to people’s health. Experts remind that customers opt for business investment and fruits before producing the drug, so people should not “in order to obtain fruit appearance,” stop making false drug behavior.
It is understood that these “poisonous” fruit are the growth process, the excessive use of reminders long-Su, Cui Hong Su, Expansin, or storage of excessive use of preservatives, and even the sale is also used in coloring agents, waxing, bleaching and dyeing, etc. has become a serious threat to people’s health hazards.
Expert analysis, the reason why the proliferation of poison fruit, the most important reason is that consumers often “in order to obtain fruit appearance,” “consumers like, what the business will produce. We like to buy a large, color fresh fruit, of course, some people match up, if the consumer does not buy these fruits, ‘to make fake drugs’ behavior can not exist. ”
To this end, the Urban Food Safety Information Network and sorted out 12 kinds of special things as a “problem” fruit declares to the public to remind the public not to “to take fruit appearance,” those who do not give false market.
Peach: The industrial citric acid soak
Peach soaked with industrial citric acid, peach red, non-perishable. The chemical residue will damage the nervous system, induce allergic diseases, and even cancer. Rare peach crisp, add alum, sweeteners, alcohol and so on, so sweet and crisp.
The main ingredient is alum aluminum sulfate, long-term consumption may lead to bone hyperplasia, memory loss, dementia, decreased skin elasticity and wrinkles increase and other issues. Peach with sulfur smoked, there will be residual sulfur dioxide.
Mango: quicklime cover their yellow
Green mango with lime cover their yellow, so that skin looks glistening yellow, but did not eat up the mango flavor, there are also problems of excessive use of preservatives.
Pear: Long Su ordered precocious reminders
The use of swelling Su, Chang-Su reminders make it mature and then bleaching powder, coloring agent (lemon yellow) for bleaching and dyeing.
Processed pear little tasteless, and sometimes accompanied by foul odor and taste. This poison pear storage time is short, easy to rot.
Banana: The ammonia ripening
With ammonia or sulfur dioxide ripening, this banana skin yellow look good, but the flesh stiff texture, taste is not sweet.
Of sulfur dioxide on the human nervous system damage, but also affect the liver and kidney function.
Watermelon: swelling agent reminders large
Excessive use of ripening agent, swelling agent and highly toxic pesticides, such Watermelon stripes on the uneven cut rang after the fresh, white melon seeds, there is smell.
Grape: Purple changing into ethylene
The immature green grapes into the dilute solution of ethephon soaked, over a day or two becomes a Muscatel grapes green grapes. This grape color uneven, less sugar, juice little tasteless, long-term consumption harmful.
Persimmon: Using yeast ripening
Health persimmon using yeast or the ripening agent for ripening, but the sweetness of persimmons greatly reduced. There are fruit persimmon tuba Health Department, points to “a try spirits” to make it flush.
These chemical agents will have a residue, so that persimmon carriers of the virus.
Jujube: Dyeing with chemical agent
With open blisters, no matter how green the dates with boiling water, a red bubble in Lima. There are fruit vendor with chemical dye staining, using industrial paraffin wax, so that jujube carriers of the virus.
Longan: spraying sulfur change Yan
Spraying sulfuric acid or acidic solution, soak it colorful.
Has a strong corrosive sulfuric acid will burn people’s digestive tract. Is also easy to cause colds, diarrhea, and a strong cough.
Litchi: sulfuric acid soaking changed color
Soaked in sulfuric acid solution, or sprayed with ethephon agent, so that bright red color of litchi has become attractive, but it is perishable.
Strong acidity of these solutions will lead to hand-peeling, foaming mouth, but also burn stomach. There are fruit vendor will be smoked with sulfur, while sulfur dioxide on the eyes, throat and will have a strong incentive to cause people to dizziness, abdominal pain, diarrhea. Will be cancer-causing sulfur dioxide.
Citrus: Industrial wax polish
Citrus fruits stored in the excessive use of preservatives, coloring agent in the sale of using “cosmetic” use of industrial paraffin wax polish.
Impurities in the industrial paraffin contain lead, mercury, arsenic and other heavy metals, will penetrate into the fruit, the use will cause the memory decline, anemia and other symptoms.
Apple: Cui Hong Su hyperchromic
Reminders to use Expansin months, Cui Hong Su hyperchromic, preservatives preservation. Excessive use of swelling Su, Cui Hong Su, preservatives will hurt the liver. Retail fruit vendor will give Apple branded industrial paraffin wax, is aimed at maintaining moisture, is bright fruit body will sell.