What is pigment food?

Pigmented food refers to food made of edible pigments, mainly including unnatural colored foods, such as candy, cakes, colored pasta or drinks. Although occasionally adding food pigment will not cause harm to human body, it will have some effects if it is eaten frequently. It is recommended to eat less.

Pigmented food is animal and plant food containing natural pigments. Pigment foods include soy sauce, vinegar, auricularia auricula, black sesame, black beans, laver, animal liver, kelp, laver, black-bone chicken, mushrooms, black rice, sea cucumber, black dates, squid ink, eggplant, lobster sauce, spinach root and so on.

In our daily diet, we often notice that some foods contain some bright colors, which means that some pigments are actually added to these foods. Although these artificial pigments are harmless to human body, generally speaking, they will have different adverse effects on human body. Colored foods are all pigment foods, but some of them are natural and harmless, but some of them are artificial pigments, which will have a certain impact if used frequently. For example, brightly colored foods such as drinks, cakes, and sweets are basically added with artificial pigments.

If a large amount of this pigment is consumed, it may cause harm to children's growth and development, because this pigment is an indigestible sound, which may stimulate children's gastrointestinal health, have greater harm to children's intestines and stomach, and may cause a decline in digestive function. This kind of edible pigment may affect children's personality, because children will like colorful things, so if you often choose this kind of pigmented food in the process of daily diet, it will cause children to have the habit of partial eclipse, so they will not eat some healthy food.