The Consumer Council's investigation found that all 60 samples of prepackaged biscuits were found to contain carcinogens such as glycidyl alcohol or acrylamide produced during processing. Among them, more than 46 models also detected 3 types of contaminants at the same time.
The 51 samples are "high-fat", "high-sugar" or "high-sodium" foods.
Guanhua blister cake has the highest overall score
In terms of the overall scoring of the Consumer Council’s test, the childhood snacks Guanhua blisters had the highest score of 5 stars, and the worst performance was Fushang’s cheese-flavored soda biscuits and Hokka finger biscuits with only 2.5 stars.
The origin of Guanhua blisters comes from Hong Kong, so it ranked first in the total score of this test. Compared with other foreign and mainland brands, they performed well in all aspects of the test.
In addition, the biscuits samples from Italy accounted for the most of the 12 biscuits with the highest overall score, and seemed to contain fewer carcinogens.
The reporter personally compared and inspected a total of 18 types of crackers from 7 brands, and found that 9 of them were high-fat and 3 were high-sodium.
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12 biscuits with the highest overall score
With a total score of up to 5 stars and 4 and a half stars, there are 12 types of pre-packaged biscuit samples, including "Guan Hua Boiled Biscuit, Lei Yue Men Shao Xiang Yuan Peach and Fruit Specialty Store Hua Zhan Bi, Lai Jia Loacker Wafer and Garden Garden Cream Lian Weihua Peanut Flavor" etc.:
According to the picture, there are 12 biscuits with the highest overall rating (ordered from low to high price):
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MUJI Red Bean Sandwich, Fushangzhipin Cheese Soda Cake has high carcinogen content
In the safety test of pollutants (including carcinogens), 55 samples were found to contain acrylamide, with a content ranging from 32 micrograms to 620 micrograms per kilogram. Among them, the relevant content of "MUJI Red Bean Sandwich" was the highest, which exceeded the EU Baseline level.
As for the glycidol test, 54 samples were found to contain related contaminants, and the content gap was very wide, ranging from 11 micrograms per kilogram to more than 3900 micrograms.
Among them, the highest content of glycidol is "Fushang Zhipin Cheese Flavor Soda Biscuits", which contains more than 3900 micrograms per kilogram.
Click the picture to see 5 types of biscuits that do not include carcinogens (acrylamide) and 6 types of biscuits that do not include carcinogens (glycidol):
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7 types of biscuits with higher carcinogens
As for the biscuits with higher carcinogens, there are the following 7 types, including MUJI red bean sandwich biscuits, Bancheta digestive biscuits, Fushangzhipin cheese-flavored soda biscuits, Hokka finger biscuits, Blue Diamond Multi-seed Creka, Dare Basil Olive Oil Klicka and synthesis are better than cake Klicka.
Click the picture to see 7 types of biscuits with higher carcinogens:
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MUJI Red Bean Sandwich Cake $10, Origin: Japan.
Hokka finger biscuits $12, Origin: Japan.
Bancheta Digestive Cake $14, Origin: Netherlands.
The synthesis is more than $14.9 crepe. Origin: Malaysia.
Dare basil olive oil crepe $15.9, origin: the United States.
Fushangzhipin Cheese Soda Biscuits (No Cane Sugar) $31, Origin: China.
Blue Diamond Blue Diamond multi-seed creka $42, origin: the United States.
Mofengshiduo blister cake has the lowest total fat content
In addition to carcinogens, pre-packaged cakes also have "three highs" problems, including "high fat", "high sugar" or "high sodium".
Calculated per 100g, the total fat content of all 60 samples ranged from 4.9g to 41.3g. Among them, 33 of them reached the level of "high-fat" food in the guidelines of the Center for Food Safety, that is, more than 20g per 100g of solid food. Total fat.
The highest total fat content is "Fushang's Products", and the lowest is "Mofeng Shiduo".
Click the picture to understand the samples of the highest and lowest fat biscuits in the test. The following are summarized:
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The highest total fat content: Fushangzhipin cheese-flavored soda biscuits, containing 41.3 grams per 100 grams.
The total fat content is the lowest: Mofeng Shiduo blister cake contains 4.9 grams per 100 grams.
The highest content of saturated fatty acids: Gastone Lago Lemon Cream Wafer, which contains 23.7 grams per 100 grams.
Saturated fatty acid content is the lowest: Blue Diamond Blue Diamond Multi-seed Creka, which contains 1.2 grams per 100 grams.
The highest content of trans fatty acids: Hamada Healthy Club Chocolate Coffee Flavored Wafers with Calcium contains 1.36 grams per 100 grams, which is about half of the daily limit recommended by the WHO of 2.2 grams.
If you eat 12 pieces at a time, you will consume about 86.4 grams of trans fatty acids.
The Consumer Council has forwarded all test results to the Center for Food Safety for follow-up, and reminded consumers of the health risks of eating various types of biscuits, and urged manufacturers to improve the production formula to reduce pollutants (including carcinogens), fat, sugar and sodium content.
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Source: Consumer Council Issue 540 "Choice"
