How to Tell noodles contain toxic carcinogens

According to chemical experts, you should not buy a bun with white yarn balls, iridescent in sunlight, does not smell sour.

Police Department Crime Prevention environmental, Tay Ninh Provincial Police announced test results of samples collected from the noodle manufacturing facility vermicelli, noodles, bread soup, bread soup dice on urban areas Tay Ninh in May. Test results of samples taken from two base bun showed fluorescence (Tinopal) - a chemical that can cause cancer. In addition, there is a mold inhibitor (sodium benzoate) and borax.

Nuyen Dr. Duy Thinh - Institute for Biotechnology and Food Technology (Polytechnic University) said, Tinopal is used in industrial quality paint, canvas, paper ... so iridescent, beautiful . This material may not be used in absolute food. For years to increase toughness for noodles, producers often use borax and bleach white sulphite pulp.

Quality Tinopal - fluorescence in only improve surface gloss noodles, noodles made ​​attractive form but the substance is hazardous, potentially causing cancer. Worryingly, the noodles were listed as regular food groups used by people, especially in the summer. Sodium benzoate also prescribed by the Ministry of Health as food additives permitted for use in certain food groups such as bread and produce products similar to anti-microbial, anti stale and sour.

 

According to experts, bun ago made of rice quality, noodles are white opaque and not in the present. Noodles made with cassava flour fresh, flour noodles usually black, prone to crumbling. And kind of bun with chemicals Tinopal look very white, shiny, completely leaving no odor, making sunlight noodles usually white sheen. Type bun good looks usually ivory white of rice flour, flour flavored rice, flexible and quick to smell sour. Vermicelli with chemicals Tinopal it to dry stale that will turn green, firm.
Chemicals Tinopal hazardous but the website for sale very much, at around 600,000 VND per kg. As revealed by a home studio specializing in noodles, the chemicals are sold in the wholesale market with the name Tinopal-DMS, Tinopal-AMS ... price 400000-550000 dong per kg.
Associate Professor Hoang Duc As Vice Chairman nutrition HCMC, said in the permitted list of the Ministry of Health there are some other substances can cause white bun but expensive so the production is not selected. The bleached bun, bread soup with fluorescence as an act harmful to the health of consumers, damage to the gastrointestinal tract, mucous membrane of the intestine can lead to ulcerative colitis, stomach. Especially could hurt villi causing the body to have difficulty absorbing, digesting food and nutrients.
Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh said, if you eat noodles containing fluorescent long will cause liver, kidney, body fatigue and even cancer. Depending on the amount of toxins in the body that can cause acute poisoning or chronic. Moreover, this is a matter for industrial use so unavoidable that contain impurities harmful for health. Borax when the body can not eliminate all the accumulated toxic acute low doses (approximately 5g) and poisoning cases held as body fatigue, loss of appetite, retarded, affecting the liver , kidney ...
Mr Thinh said the quality Tinopal easily recognizable as myself of Tinopal is color fluorescence, so in the dark with the ability to glow. When buying noodles, consumers should use ultraviolet light as a lamp for money projector on, if that bun glow then contaminated Tinopal. With borax, consumers can use test strips or use turmeric entered, if that bun grayed then that contains borax.
As revealed by the owners for making noodles in Duong Noi (Ha Dong, Hanoi), the process of making noodles start with rice, choice of water. Noodles want delicious rice should be soaked for a period of 48-72 hours. Then bring the rice mill will be a mixture of water. After dewatering, the batter rest will be for the presses, spinning. Rinse noodles after they are cooked to the soft drinks are. Doing so, bun would have toughness, brittle natural and very tasty.
But now, usually people just soak rice for a few hours to shorten the manufacturing process. Then give ground, water separation and for flour, fine flour to create fibers. Many facilities instead of rice flour completely still mixing add flour, flour for cheaper rice. In addition to using chemicals to increase the attractiveness of the bun. Price of rice noodles pure factory is 7,000 VND per kg, noodles are prepared to add flour cheaper than the 2000-3000 contract.