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Issue 204
Manuscript | NTU New Biography Future Editorial Department He Zhen Record Students
Gao Yaer Wang Jingyi Wu Sicun Jiang Huiling Yuan Jiaqi Wang Yuhe
Cartography | Wu Yuhang Ouyang Yuanfan Wang Yiqian
Editor | History Xiao Hong Zidong Zhang Ningxin Lin Xinyao
Typesetting | Wang Yuhe
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"Would you like a cup of milk tea?"
Recently, with the improvement of the epidemic situation in Nanjing, various schools have relaxed the policy of closing schools one after another. Many students who have been "closed" for a long time can’t wait to get out of the campus and come to the food street outside the school. The first thing to do is to order a cup of milk tea to solve the "suffering of missing tea" for many days.
Milk tea has unconsciously become a part of the life of contemporary young people. Many friends responded that the elders at home were even more "superior" than themselves when they met milk tea. Milk tea can be described as "happy" for all ages.
However, in the past two years, a dark cloud named "non-dairy creamer" has entered the sight of tea lovers. Although everyone knows a little about it, it does not prevent it from being notorious, and it is often mentioned together with trans fatty acids, which makes people turn pale. So what exactly is non-dairy creamer? Is it harmful? Can milk tea containing non-dairy creamer be drunk? Which brands admit or deny the use of non-dairy creamer? Which tea shops are vague in wording and afraid to avoid the word "non-dairy creamer"?
The nuclear record has collected some relevant information, and I hope this healthy communication article about "non-dairy creamer" can bring you the answer.
What is "non-creamer"?
Creamer, also known as "creamer powder", is a powdered or granular product made from sugar (including sugar and starch sugar) and/or syrup, edible oil, etc. with or without milk, dairy products and other food raw materials and food additives. It is often used to pour it on coffee, black tea or jelly, tea jelly and tortoise jelly. ①
The history of non-dairy creamer can be traced back to 1958. Carnarson Company developed a water-soluble product with a taste similar to dairy products by using edible vegetable oil and other raw materials, and put it on the market under the label of "coffee-mate" in 1961. Once put into use, the product was widely welcomed by the market. Subsequently, other companies have gradually developed and produced similar products, and constantly explored the downstream application fields of non-dairy products.
coffee mate
In the 1980s, non-dairy creamer entered the domestic consumer market. The development of China’s non-dairy creamer market has mainly gone through the stages of import consumption, independent production and R&D innovation. With the further improvement of the competitiveness of domestic non-dairy creamer products, the products of domestic non-dairy creamer manufacturers with high quality have been exported to all parts of the world, and China has become one of the important producing areas of non-dairy creamer products in the world.
The prevalence of non-dairy creamer in food industry is not without reason. This food additive has good solubility, emulsification and dispersion properties, and has no repulsive effect on other raw materials; At the same time, the non-dairy creamer is not easy to be damaged by oxidation, and it does not need refrigeration, which ensures its long shelf life. More importantly, on the premise of low price, convenient use and low storage conditions, non-dairy creamer can effectively increase food flavor and make food taste smoother. For all these reasons, merchants have been very fond of this food additive all the year round.
However, in recent years, with consumers’ attention to food safety and the improvement of food health requirements, "non-dairy creamer" has entered the public’s field of vision, and has been labeled as "harmful", and even become a food additive.
Why is non-dairy creamer so unpopular? Can its harm to human body be reduced or avoided?
There is no need to "talk about the color change of non-dairy creamer"
Fat is the most important ingredient in the formula of non-dairy creamer, which provides a unique texture and viscosity for non-dairy creamer and gives the product a mellow taste. The fat in non-dairy products is provided by hydrogenated vegetable oil.
The harm of non-dairy creamer is discussed by everyone, and the key lies in this part of hydrogenated vegetable oil. Incomplete hydrogenation of hydrogenated vegetable oil will produce "trans fatty acids", which are harmful to human body.
On October 12th, 2011, China’s health authorities issued the national standard GB28050-2011 "General Rules for Nutrition Labeling in prepackaged foods", in which clause 4.4 of "4 Mandatory Labeling Contents" stipulates that "when food ingredients contain or use hydrogenated and/or partially hydrogenated oils in the production process, the content of trans fats (acids) should also be marked in the nutrition composition table". In addition, D.4.2 stipulates that "the intake of trans fatty acids should not exceed 2.2 grams per day, and excessive intake is harmful to health. The intake of trans fatty acids should be less than 1% of the total daily energy, which is harmful to health. Excessive intake of trans fatty acids can increase blood cholesterol, thereby increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases. "
Screenshot of General Principles of Nutrition Labeling in prepackaged foods (GB28050-2011) by official website, Institute of Nutrition and Health, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the Report on the Intake Level and Risk Assessment of Trans Fatty Acids of Chinese Residents issued by the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center in March 2013, the energy provided by trans fatty acids through dietary intake in Chinese accounts for only 0.16% of the total dietary energy, far below the limit of 1% recommended by WHO.
However, with the development of hydrogenation technology, it is now possible to produce "completely hydrogenated vegetable oil" without trans fatty acids, that is, "zero trans fatty acids" non-dairy creamer. At present, the content of trans fatty acids in most brands of coffee partners on the market is almost zero. Although the product ingredients on the packaging contain non-dairy creamer, they will be specially labeled as "zero trans fatty acids". ④
"Zero" here means that the trans fatty acid content is lower than the standard threshold. The current standard of the Ministry of Health is that it can be labeled as "zero trans fatty acid" when it is lower than 0.3g/100g, and a cup of milk tea contains about 20~30g of non-dairy creamer. Therefore, if you can use the non-dairy creamer containing "zero trans fatty acids", the harm caused by the non-dairy creamer in a cup of milk tea is almost negligible.
Therefore, "containing or not containing non-dairy creamer" is not a direct criterion to measure the safety of a certain food. The quality of hydrogenated vegetable oil used by various manufacturers in the process of producing non-dairy creamer, that is, the content of trans fatty acids in non-dairy creamer, may be the focus we need to pay attention to. The most direct way to reduce the harm of non-dairy creamer to human body is to reduce the content of trans fatty acids. For consumers, if they want to reduce the harm caused by non-dairy creamer in some products, they should try to identify whether the trans fatty acid content in them meets their expectations.
According to the list of the top ten brands of non-dairy creamer listed by maigoo Brand Ranking Network, Hezhen Record searched the enterprise standards of these brands for producing non-dairy creamer in official website and official website in turn, trying to list the content of trans fatty acids and find out the food brands that cooperated with these companies. However, in the search, except for Dongguan Nestle Co., Ltd. and Jiahe Food Industry Co., Ltd., we can hardly find the enterprise standards of other brands (enterprise standards are more stringent than industry standards and national standards, and if enterprise standards are not formulated, production should meet the basic industry standards or national standards); At the same time, the cooperation between many brands is not open to the public. Therefore, the nuclear record has sorted out some effective information currently available to the top five non-dairy brands in the list, hoping to bring some reference to readers.
Tea merchants who admit/deny using non-dairy creamer.
Although non-dairy creamer is not equal to trans fatty acids, and adding non-dairy creamer to milk tea is not equal to endangering health, the public has always been wary of non-dairy creamer. In such a public opinion environment, do you want to use non-dairy creamer? What kind of non-dairy creamer do you use? Admit or deny? This is indeed a big publicity problem for tea merchants. Hezhenlu collected the contents related to non-dairy creamer in the publicity information of 16 well-known milk tea merchants for readers’ reference.
Note: The official propaganda information and netizens’ speeches collected in the above pictures do not represent Ben WeChat official account’s views and attitudes.
After popular science, have you understood in front of the screen that non-dairy creamer is not equal to trans fatty acids, and it is not as terrible as it looks? As long as "good oil" is used and "low acid" or even "zero acid" is added in the production process, it is a food additive that can improve the taste of products and reduce the unit price of products. Therefore, it is important to pay more attention to the content of trans fatty acids in the nutrient composition table when buying food. In addition, the use of food manufacturers, including non-dairy creamers, which are likely to cause people’s health concerns, should also clearly indicate the contents of non-dairy creamers and trans fats in their product composition tables.
More transparent information and a more responsible attitude can bring people more secure choices.
reference data
①《QBT 4791-2015 Non-dairy creamer industry standard
② Institute of Nutrition and Health, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, official website: National Standard "General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of National Food Safety Standard prepackaged foods" GB28050-2011.
https://www.chinanutri.cn/gzrw_132/gjspyybqjkjyxd/201412/t20141229_108497.html
③ National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center. China residents’ dietary intake level of trans fatty acids and summary of its risk assessment report [J]. Food Safety Guide, 2013(8):3.
④ Wang Biao. Preparation of zero trans fatty acid non-dairy creamer [D]. Jiangnan University, 2014.
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