What is irradiated food? is it safe?

What are the benefits of irradiated food?

Irradiation processing can help preserve food, eliminate food-borne diseases that endanger human health worldwide, make foods safer, and extend the shelf life of foods. Irradiation kills bacteria, yeast, and yeast, and these microorganisms can cause deterioration of fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables.

Irradiation can also kill insects in food as well as their eggs and larvae.

Irradiated food label

Irradiation also inhibits the germination of foods such as potatoes, onions, and garlic.

Each year, foodborne illnesses capture thousands of lives worldwide. The UN report points out: Contaminated food is "an important factor that may slow economic vitality in the most universal health problems in the modern world."

According to the UN estimates, about one-quarter to one-third of the world's food is lost each year due to pests, bacteria, fungi, etc. With the increase of the global population, there is an urgent need for new, more effective food preservation technology - irradiation technology will be the first choice.

Irradiated food safety?

Gamma-ray processing of foods, just like cooking, canning, or freezing, can only cause small changes in food molecules. And this change is harmless. Irradiation processing is a "cold treatment" that does not significantly increase the temperature of the food being processed. This keeps food fresh. Moreover, it does not leave harmful residues like chemical treatments.

In addition, the irradiated food after treatment can be immediately transported, stored, or eaten immediately. Gamma-irradiated foods will never be radioactive and harmful to the body.

After more than 40 years of research, about 50 kinds of irradiated food irradiation in about 36 countries have been recognized. As the World Health Organization has concluded, irradiated foods are as safe and healthier as foods sterilized by pasteurization.

Does the taste of food after irradiation change?

will not. In fact, irradiating foods can maintain their original taste more than the pasteurization, heat sterilisation, or canned foods for longer periods of time.

Irradiated food varieties:

1. Special food: sterile food for the patient.

2. Dehydrated foods: onion powder, star anise powder, shrimp powder, shallots, chili powder, garlic powder, shrimp and other dehydrated products.

3. Extend the shelf life of food: moon cakes, bags of meat products, preserved fruit and other products.

4. Frozen products: frozen squid, frozen shrimp, frozen crab meat, frozen frog legs and other products.

5. Health products: slimming tea, ginseng, pollen, Ganoderma products, tea bags, oral beauty health foods.