On the eve of the holiday, many people have to go after the cake. Confectioneries today offer a lot of options. On what to stop the choice and how to be guided? The first commandment of the buyer: carefully read the label, according to the Internet edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net The "Consumer" correspondent observed for half an hour how people buy cakes, and made sure: no one reads the labels. Firstly, because usually the appearance of the product, wrapped in airy creamy clouds and strewn with chocolate, berries and other delicacies, captivates and hypnotizes the buyer to such an extent that he does not think about anything, but only dreams of putting in mouth piece of this goodies. Secondly, most often labels are written in bad and very small print. Beaded letters double and merge, and, having begun to read, after a moment, with a wave of your hand, you abandon this tedious occupation. However, the correspondent of the "Consumer" was persistent and read from beginning to end a couple of labels on popular cakes.
The composition of the cake "Orient": wheat flour, sugar, egg, canned apricots, cocoa powder, cocktail cherry, peanut, confectionery mixture (dextrose, carrageenan E407, pectin E440, acidity regulators E330, E331, thickeners E414, E410, caramel, flavor, identical to natural).
The composition of the cake "Golden domes": condensed whole milk with sugar, cream of cream of vegetable fats, water, vegetable fat, sugar, crackers, cranberry syrup, emulsifiers: sodium lactylate, cellulose, fatty acid monoglycerides, hydroioxidants, E410 stabilizer, sorbitol sweetener, acidity regulator, phosphates, citrates, vegetable protein, flavor identical to natural - vanillin, water, sugar, wheat flour, glaze, biscuit mixture, margarine, sugar powder, cocoa glycerin, salt.
Admit it, if you did not see the cakes themselves, but just read these labels, you would hardly have coveted these products. At the same time, the technologist of one of the famous confectionery companies Galina Sedova asserts that all the additives specified in the recipe are allowed, besides they are used in very small quantities, and some of them are even useful.
In his turn, the dietician Galina Belova, a professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine at St. Petersburg Medical University named after Mechnikov, believes that, in fact, each supplement is not harmful, but that's how their combination affects the organism, those combinations that occur in confectionery products - a complex question. So far there is no research on this subject and corresponding conclusions of scientists. In any case, everyone who buys cakes needs to be clearly aware that the times when they were cooked from natural cream, butter, milk and other natural ingredients have completely disappeared, now confectioners treat us mostly with a combination of different additives. Most of them are of natural origin, but these substances are not naturally found in nature, they are obtained from plants or animals by means of complex chemical manipulations. They are used in order to increase the shelf life of the product, to get more of the starting material, to improve the taste of non-natural products - to adjust it to natural, to keep the shape, puffiness, softness of the product and t.
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