Following June 23, Italian, according to the report of the Italian Consumers Association (Altroconsumo), released "Humana/kinder and other harmful substances! Italy can't guarantee the health of your child? After the article (click to review), immediately caused the readers to pay attention to infant food safety and child health issues.
After tracking and collecting a large number of media-related reports and expert opinions, Italian cockroaches further explored the questions such as “Why does baby milk powder contain palm oil” and “What are palm oil-free milk powder?”
■ Why does palm milk contain baby oil?
Today, everyone knows that most children's foods on the market contain palm oil, including baby milk powder or growing milk.
So, why do you want to add palm oil to your baby's milk powder?
According to Green. It, Sabina Bietolini, an Italian biologist and dietitian & adult and child nutrition prevention expert & nutrition expert for pregnancy, lactation and weaning, explains: “Because palm oil is a saturated fat, so it will improve the taste of the formula, which is similar to butter. Moreover, adding this saturated fat to the formula can increase the food energy at low cost."
Another nutritionist & homoeopathic physician, Assunta Buccarella, said that the problem is not only the amount of palm oil in the formula but also the total amount of palm oil in daily intake!
She said: “After birth, babies start taking palm oil from formula; after weaning, they start eating biscuits containing palm oil; when they grow older, they start eating snacks containing palm oil. Most biscuits on the market. , snacks and savoury snacks all contain palm oil. Just go to the supermarket and read the recipe description of the product, you will know the range of this vegetable oil. For teenagers and adults, we may also Unconsciously ingesting a large amount of palm oil, because many product labels do not specify the specific content of palm oil."
She pointed out that a small amount of palm oil may not cause us any problems, but if the amount of such vegetable oil we ingest exceeds the prescribed standards, it will definitely bring harm to our health!
■ Why is palm oil bad?
Italian life gate. It reported that palm oil is mainly crushed by the palm fruit of oil palm trees. Its "low cost", "high-temperature resistance" and "acid resistance" characteristics make it widely used in many foods and cosmetics.
The website also pointed out that today, more and more consumers are not welcoming palm oil due to ethical, environmental and health factors.
The unhealthy factor of palm oil is better understood. The European Food Safety Agency (Efsa) announced on May 3 this year that a scientific opinion on the high-temperature refining of vegetable oils pointed out that in various vegetable oils refined by high temperature, palm oil It produces the most harmful substances, nearly 10 times higher than other similar vegetable oils.
So why are moral and environmental factors?
It turns out that the tropics have planted a large number of oil palm trees, such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Latin America. However, the cultivation of some unapproved oil palm trees can lead to the destruction of Asian forests and accelerate the extinction of orangutans and Sumatran tigers.
■ Plasmon has decided to remove its palm oil
Although there are few products that do not contain palm oil on the market, some businesses have finally decided to remove the palm oil component of their products.
Expert Sabina Bietolini said: "We can replace palm oil with a healthier oil, such as sunflower oil. But the market has not developed in this area. In addition, sunflower oil has a relatively strong smell, and It is more expensive. In any case, palm oil can be replaced by corn oil, sunflower oil, peanut oil, soybean oil, olive oil or cocoa butter.
In fact, life gate. It was reported on March 4 this year that under the pressure of consumers, some big companies finally decided to meet the requirements of consumers and remove palm oil from their products! For example, the Italian milk powder brand Plasmon.
Following the consumer's many comments on the Plasmon Facebook page against palm oil, the merchants finally decided to remove the ingredients from the biscuits they produced, using a new formula of sunflower oil and olive oil.
Consumers have posted messages on the Plasmon homepage against palm oil