"Pearl milk tea" no milk no tea – milk tea, tea – Food Industry – chin
Recently, the Harbin city often hot weather, cold drink in the street's Office, Wine It, drink it and so on interviews learn: the most popular of 3 to 10 yuan a cup of drink??? From the South's "pearl tea", deeply favored by many young people. However, an industry source told journalists, these "pearl milk tea" is neither add milk, did not add tea, but outside the area used in the Road, Chengde Street, bought some "powder" and blending, and a glass costs less than one dollar. The magnitude of the problem is that these "powder" contains the cream, sweeteners, coloring additives, ingredients, harmful. Students question the blending process
Recently, a university student newspaper calling the hotline, told reporters recently, he was cold in front of it at school, accidentally saw the "pearl milk tea" in the production process: "They were from two iron Sheng Li a spoonful of brown and white powder, add some black beans, rice, washed with water to sell to us, do not add milk and tea. I want to know what that powder? looks like a very cheap thing. "The students questions, the reporter consulted a cold room operators, the operators said that" authentic pearl milk tea from Taiwan, is to use fresh milk, Crystal sugar , Black tea with cassava to do the 'Black Pearl' deployment. But this production method is too cumbersome, Raw material Not keep the cost even higher, now blending into, and buy some ready-made powder a red can. The operator also told reporters: "Go Road, Chengde Street, walk around outside the area, I know how pearl milk tea is made of."
"Tea" = pigment + cream Yesterday morning, we arrived outside the District Road, Chengde Street Food Additives A street, where wholesale all kinds of food additives, which sell drinks up. Many shops in the door with large characters the words "the wholesale pearl milk tea." Reporter walked into a store, the shelves stocked with large numbers of "pearl milk tea" ingredients. Boss told reporters modulation "pearl milk tea" and "Trilogy" is a fruit powder, creamer and sweetener. The price of a bag of fruit powder is 14 yuan, 12 yuan a bag of cream, can blending 50 to 70 cups of tea, cost less than a dollar. Reporter asked some operators, why should adding milk instead of cream milk? The operator said: "10 cups milk glass creamer milk taste is not as incense."
Reporter saw creamer ingredient list reads: fat, carbohydrate, of which 32% fat content. The list of ingredients reads fruit powder: silica, food Essence And food coloring. For the deployment of tea fruit powder, fruit juice, including pineapple, vanilla, papaya, etc. dozens of color are very bright. These different tastes, the difference lies in the bag marked "pigment composition" different. Subsequently, the reporter found it in a shop of "pearl milk tea" in the "Pearl." The rice black beans are in a plastic bag, a bag of about 2 kg of weight, selling 10 yuan. Reporters thought it was rice beans, but the boss told reporters, "This is not sticky to do is add caramel Starch Do. "
Part of the toxic components of the human body
's Investigation learned that fruit powder bags on the additive label: "silica" is a widely used in the manufacture of glass, optical fiber, and refractory materials, the dust if he were a long-term smoking can cause lung disease, or even poisoning. As for the food coloring, quality supervision department inspectors told reporters, in order to improve the food's color, the operator often processed foods to add food coloring. State standards for food coloring added to make a strict definition, but in the "tea" in the blending process, it is easy to add too much. The dangers of excessive food coloring, including general toxicity, diarrheal, Mutagenicity of (genetic mutation) and carcinogenesis.
Inspectors said Creamer also Milk powder Not year, Creamer is the hydrogenation of vegetable oils by chemical extract, main ingredient is sugar, saturated fat and trans fatty acids, but does not contain Milk Calcium, vitamin and other nutrients, protein, fat content is very high.
"Food Safety Law," the forty-third to the fourth 18, and strictly regulate the production and application of food additives. Which requires food producers to follow the food safety standards, in accordance with the variety, scope, content require the use of food additives; not use food additives other than chemicals and other potentially harmful substances to human health. Violation of the provisions of the production, use of food additives, may be sentenced to ten times the value of a fine, in serious cases, suspension of license.
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