New version of "Standard for the Use of Food Nutrition Enhancers" for Comments

Yesterday, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Health that the new version of the "Standard for the Use of Food Nutrition Enhancers" is soliciting opinions. For the first time, the consumption of DHA in formula milk powder was definitely defined as "≤ 0.5% (% of total fatty acids)". DHA has been promoted by many food companies as “brain gold” in recent years, which gives the impression that the more you add, the better. If the above criteria are finally passed, it means that DHA cannot be randomly added.

Investigation: More and more foods with DHA were added. The reporters discovered yesterday in major supermarkets in Guangzhou that more and more foods have been added to DHA since the beginning of this year, and they have gradually been applied to rice flour, edible oil, etc., from the original infant milk powder formula. On the product, it seems that as long as the DHA product is included, it is very high-end.

In milk powder shelves, DHA became the product "standard." The reporter saw that the vast majority of infant formulas have been labeled with DHA, but the composition table is different. For example, Abbott, Meiji milk powder (three stages, the same below) is called "docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)", Wyeth milk powder is labeled "long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids AA and DHA from single cell sources", Dumex For "Tuna Oil (DHA)".

In the edible oil shelf, the reporter also saw the DHA blending oil. In West Gate Tesco supermarket, a brand of 5 liters of “deep-sea fish oil blend oil” sold for 75.9 yuan, while the ordinary blending oil was 56.8 yuan. The product description described DHA as “brain gold”, indicating that the added DHA was derived from “deep sea fish oil”. .

Limited: DHA usage is "capped"

Yesterday, the Ministry of Health published a new version of the "Standard for the Use of Food Nutrition Enhancers" on its official website for opinions, listing the list of sources of fortified nutritional compounds that are allowed to be used.

The reporter saw that the DHA column only lists three types of food products, namely, formula milk powder and brewed cream powder (including flavored milk powder and flavored cream powder), rice and its products (rice, rice flour, rice cake), wheat flour and Products, and all indicate "children's food only." The former consumption is limited to "≤ 0.5% (% of total fatty acids)", and the latter two are "66 mg/100 g, and the amount used is pure DHA".

Algae and fish oil are sources of DHA in Mengniu and Yili's "children's milk," which is better for children? However, this controversy will be ended by this new standard, because the "Cyprinus dibotulinum" and "tuna oil" are both recognized as the list of DHA legal compound sources.

Experts say that adding too much or causing the baby to digest the burden Yesterday, the senior dairy expert Wang Ding cotton told this newspaper that the milk powder industry should add more DHA, and there have been different opinions. "My impression is the first time I clearly saw the DHA food standard in milk powder." Wang Dingmian said that if DHA is added too much, the burden of digestion and absorption of infants and young children is not necessarily a good thing; if it is less, it may not be. Effective. Wang Dingmian said, "After the DHA food was introduced to the market, it did not appear that there was a negative complaint after it was added, nor did it read that the company could provide clinical data that would be especially smart for children." Jiang Zhuoqin, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University Said, "From this provision, the idea is to start with children's food." But this is not that adults can not eat, because the market has long been launched for adult DHA capsules.