Yi bone type, Marques type, nutrition Balanced ...... and now into the major supermarkets, a variety of children's milk hype. Recent media reports, including at least four kinds of children's milk additives, nutrition experts recommend drink. Yesterday, the reporter visited Changsha supermarkets, the survey found that some brands of milk additive or even up to ten children, mainly for sweetening additive increase flavor, which, experts suggest should be prohibited.
Twice as expensive than the average price of milk sales were good
In recent years, children become one of the main varieties of milk liquid milk market in the business, all kinds of children as the main object of milk products occupy a prominent position in milk shelves.
Yesterday, the reporter saw supermarkets wonderful life, children up to seventy-eight kinds of milk are known with a unique formula, such as the DHA, fruits and vegetables, vitamins and trace elements, packaging intellectual development, Calcium, Iron and Zinc supplement , words strong bones and especially conspicuous.
Children's milk than regular milk capacity is smaller, but the price is much higher, a box of 125 ml of milk price for children over 2 million. On the market, 500 ml milk priced at around $ 4.
Although the price is not low, but people buy milk for children, but many, many consumers are buying FCL. My son especially liked children to drink milk, take him to the supermarket every time will buy. She has people this year, four-year-old son, she said, These add a lot of nutrients in milk inside, I think there are benefits for the child's body.
Partial tastes sweet, exact preferences of children
Many parents believe that children's milk are healthy foods and rich in nutrients. But yesterday, reporters found on the market, the vast majority of children's milk products contain food additives, including some children food additives in milk up to 10 species.
In certain brand of children's milk drinks list of ingredients, food additives, including sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, lactic acid, citric acid, sodium citrate, guar gum, sodium tripolyphosphate, acesulfame, aspartame (benzene alanine), xanthan gum, food flavor. Reporters learned that query data, more than food additives thickening, increased acidity, sweetness and flavor harmony and so on. Food additives other children include milk, sucrose fatty acid ester, glyceryl monostearate fat, vitamin C, trisodium phosphate, food flavorings.
Reporters noted that some products labeled suitable for 3-6 years old children, the vast majority of products are not labeled for the crowd. Reporter bought a product found after drinking large sweet fragrance. On the list of ingredients, in addition to raw milk, the sugar ranked second in the list of ingredients, some brands also add honey. In this regard, the well-known dairy expert Wang Ding Cotton said: This is because children naturally love sweet, sweet milk drink this once reluctant to accept non-sweet milk.
Ban should add sweeteners and flavorings
Experts said the impact depends on what kind of additives, if it is nutrient additive, not harmful to health. And relatively safe thickeners and emulsifiers such as sucrose fatty acid ester emulsifiers to allow smoother taste, but is not required in their milk.
However, Wang Ding cotton that children milk should be forbidden sweet, fragrant ban, sweeteners, flavors and food additives like milk should not be used in children. Moreover, some of the so-called sugar substitute products, natural spices should be less or prohibit the use of milk in children.
Wang Ding Cotton said that if the children's nutritional intake of milk only hope is undoubtedly misled by commercial propaganda. In addition to children's milk, the milk, yogurt, cheese are nutrient-rich dairy products.
In addition, children's milk benefits bone type, Marques type and in fact may not really have its effect. Reporters view the three kinds of brands of healthy bone type children milk, Nutrition Facts label on its calcium content were: 100 mg / 100 g, 110 mg / 100 g, 128 mg / 100 g, which is ordinary milk calcium content of 100 mg / 100 g compared, the difference is not significant.
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Source: China News Express Update