In the hot summer, no matter how small the road is, adults will want to eat ice cream bars and ice cream to cool them down. However, it has been recently reported that there are suspected problems with ice cream. In mainland China, ice cream bars have been burned with lighters and sunburnt for 30 minutes without melting, causing food safety doubts, and a similar situation is suspected to have occurred in Hong Kong. On Sunday night (10th), a netizen posted a “very unmelting” mainland ice cream on the Facebook group “Hong Kong Ice Cream Concern Group”, and pointed out that it contained the same “carrageenan” ingredient as the problem ice cream reported earlier. , the victim even called “舐嘢(中 stroke)”.
The netizens involved uploaded two photos of snow bars, and it can be seen from the packaging that the origin is a food company in Shanghai. Carrageenan”, which led him to question whether the snow strip was equally problematic. She said: “Seeing that A-Nu eats, lives, travels, travels, eats, and eats very well, and they don’t fit well, you know that the lick… (the ingredient) is exactly carrageenan.” After the netizens learned The reactions were mixed, although some people were worried, “Look carefully before buying”; but many people pointed out that many brands of ice cream also have similar ingredients, “Carrageenan is very common, it is available in dry food for cats and dogs, and it is one of the edible glues. “, “Don’t make too much of a fuss, good (many) products are all.”
In fact, according to the CFS Guidelines on Food Additives, “Carrageenan” and “Xanthan Gum” are both qualified food additives in Hong Kong. They are mainly used as emulsifiers and thickeners, as long as the ingredients are not higher than the “Good Manufacturing Practice Limits” The maximum content is sufficient, so there is no need for the public to be overly nervous for the time being.
