Why do you want to add borax - inside rice dumplings Appropriate chemical industry

borax ( Sodium tetraborate) Is a white or colorless crystalline powder, multi-purpose in making ceramics, glass and other products. Some vendors zongzi generally add borax, this is because the borax have anticorrosive, increasing the flexibility and expansion, and so on, to join can make rice dumplings taste more chewing head.

although borax is medicinal herbs, and can play an antiseptic in food, increasing the flexibility and expansion, and so on, but it is also a kind of dangerous toxic chemical raw materials, borax enter human body through the hydrochloric acid in gastric juice into boric acid, continuous intake will accumulate in the body, to the detriment of the digestive enzyme, acute poisoning symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, erythema, circulatory dysfunction, shock, coma and other so-called boric acid. Borax as boron sodium vinegar commonly known as for white or colorless crystalline powder, because of high toxicity, countries around the world more disabled for food additives. But since ancient times in China used to use borax in food, borax in food anticorrosion, increase the elasticity and swell role. Borax are very harmful to human body health, and the body was on a small amount of poisonous substances can be resolved to eduction body outside, but after borax enters the body through action of hydrochloric acid in gastric juice into boric acid, and boric acid in the human body has accumulated, although each intake is not much, but many a little more, continuous intake will product storage in the body, to the detriment of the digestive enzymes, cause loss of appetite, indigestion, inhibit the absorption of nutrients, promote adipose decompose, thus making weight loss, acute poisoning symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, erythema, follow the system obstacle, shock, coma and other so-called boric acid. Borax in boron has inhibitory effect to the bacterial DNA synthesis, but also to the DNA in the human body will cause harm. Boron is limited elements in human body, human body if the excessive intake of boron, chemicals poisoning can cause multiple organ. Borax adult dose for 1 3 grams, adult lethal dose of 15 g, lethal dose for 2 - baby 3 g. So our country 'food health law' and 'measures for the administration of food additives, health, banned borax used as food additives. But by the borax to taste food to demand higher, especially some meat products can significantly improve its & other Quality & throughout; And because of borax anticorrosive force is weak, and therefore is often used in large quantities.