What is the role of borax in food?

Borax has the ability to increase the toughness of food, crispness and improve the water retention and preservation of food, etc., and is a drug used in food processing.

But borax, when ingested through food, can produce boric acid with gastric acid. Boric acid is not easily discharged and has the ability to accumulate in the body after continuous ingestion, preventing the action of digestive enzymes, causing loss of appetite, indigestion, inhibition of the absorption of nutrients, and promoting lipolysis and thus weight loss.

The symptoms of its toxicity are vomiting, diarrhea, erythema, circulatory disorders, shock and coma and other symptoms of boric acid, and there is a lethal amount, about 20 grams for adults and 5 grams for children. Simply on the food quality improvement function, borax is indeed a wide range of uses, but it has a dangerous toxicity, is also an indisputable fact, countries around the world, including our country have long banned the use of.