Do you know what is the Edible Gold leaf sheets

Edible gold foil is a kind of edible gold foil,some people called 24k edible gold leaf sheets, this is can be added to wine, cakes, cakes, coffee, tea, hot pot, cooking, seasoning, cosmetics, bath agent, improve the grade of goods, display luxury style, increase the festive atmosphere.

For the 24k edible gold leaf sheets, almost everyone knows, but have you heard of gold food?As early as in the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese people had realized the health care and medical function of gold. According to Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, "Eating gold can suppress the spirit, strengthen the bone marrow, improve the five viscera evil spirits, and serve the immortals.Especially with gold foil into pills, broken air conditioning, in addition to the wind.

In recent years, with the improvement of people's living standards, the "gold eating wind" blows again. At present, gold leaf is popular in Japan and Southeast Asia. Gold leaf dinner, gold leaf wine, gold leaf water, gold leaf candy and gold leaf cakes have become high-end goods in the market.In some big cities in China, "eating gold" is not only for health care, but also as a symbol of status. According to incomplete statistics, there are 31 domestic enterprises producing gold foil wine.Some experts say that as people pay more attention to health, gold eating is not only for high-end consumers, but also for the middle class.However, what criteria should "eating gold" be based on?

In recent years, came to the company to buy gold foil as raw materials for the food enterprise customers suddenly there, however, because of the company products are mainly used in architectural decoration in the past, as food raw materials also never had, can as food raw materials sales enterprise once felt very confused, "because the gold in the lane is bad to eat the dead, the ancient not 'swallow gold die?"Later, the gold foil factory found that gold was officially included in the category of food additives by the Codex Commission on Food Additives of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1983 after consulting government regulatory authorities and consulting materials [1].In this case, the gold leaf factory began to sell to food manufacturers.

Gold imported as food is not ordinary gold bars, bars or rings.The gold used as food ingredients must be processed gold leaf.From jin dynasty created gold foil craft an alchemist ge hong, this will be fine processing of gold after more than ten working procedure, the size of gold into uniform, as thin as cicada's gold foil, become a kind of special traditional process of the Chinese nation, he "the well", this process can be a gold ring into with a basketball court area size of the gold foil.Later, the gold foil technology was gradually spread to Japan and overseas, and became the world's gold jewelry processing technology and has long flourished.Gold foil is widely used in archaize architecture, modern architecture, gold plaques and so on, such as statue of Buddha, carved beams and painted buildings, decoration and so on.Because it is so thin, it is the best choice as a food ingredient.But how much gold leaf should you add to a ton of wine?How much gold leaf can an adult eat in a day?These standards have no way to talk about, urgent need relevant departments through scientific research to make provisions, because this is related to the people's health on the one hand, on the other hand, also with the prevention of excessive profits, maintain the normal market economic order has a close relationship.