How to identify clean chili sauce and dirty chutney

Consumers are now extremely confused when there are many warnings about dirty chutneys, containing carcinogens. How to distinguish delicious chutney and dirty chutney now?

Harm of dirty chili sauce

Currently, the chili sauce is put into large plastic cans, cheap, and there are no labels on the market that are being sold widely in the market. Most of these products are of unknown origin and do not guarantee quality.

The ingredients of these cheap chutneys include turmeric powder, red powder, coloring, spicy and viscous. According to the authorities' tests, in this ingredient, there is Rhodamine B - a component of industrial coloring is used banned in food can cause cancer, affect big to health people eat.

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Chili sauce will naturally be dark in color.

Long-term ingestion of Rhodamine B in poor quality chutneys can cause allergies, rashes, shortness of breath, chest pain, harm to the liver and kidneys, and build up in the body that can cause cancer. For dirty fish sauce, if consumers eat preservatives, sweetener is cyclamte, sac-charin . long-term can cause liver cancer, lung cancer, deformity fetus, affecting genetic factors.

How to choose to buy clean chili sauce, identify dirty chutney

For chili sauce, according to Dr. Le Thi Hong Hao, Deputy Director of Food Safety Testing Institute said that it is difficult to know the chutney dyed in color containing carcinogens because the toxic substances are odorless, no taste.The only way is to recognize the color of the product.

Chutney made naturally will have dark color, delicious taste, not colorful, fresh like being mixed with chemicals. Foods that use Rhodamine B colorants often have vivid dark red color, nice color, no color fading in the water.

In addition, consumers should choose foods with clear packaging and labels, clearly stating the date of manufacture, expiry date and special attention to that food with information on food additives. Do not choose foods with too colorful colors, unusual gloss.