As a result of the endless food safety incidents, people began to work hard to find safer foods. Therefore, organic foods have entered the public's vision and become the new darling of the food industry. At the same time, however, consumers have all sorts of confusion about organic foods: do we have a higher price and eat more at ease? Are organic foods more nutritious than regular foods? Is there any way to distinguish between genuine and fake organic products? What are the more important meanings of organic food for us? CCTV's "lifetime reference" reporter through on-site investigation, empirical presentation, experimental analysis, allows you to truly understand the organic food, for you to interpret "organic confusion."
Organic food market chaos: counterfeiters More reporters visited some of the organic vegetable planting bases in Shandong and Shanghai, and saw many growers are spraying the traces of nitrobenzene and kresoxim-methyl. These are all chemical pesticides that are not allowed in organic agriculture.
In the organic field, the reporter discovered the pesticide bottle and the chemical fertilizer “Sarcofu” packaging bag, whose concentration far exceeds 5% of the national regulations and is as high as 54%. It is prohibited for use in organic farmland.
Organic farmland has strict requirements on the surrounding environment, but the reporter saw that some organic farmland is next to an abandoned chemical plant, and Tanabe garbage piles up. At the same time, organic farmland is only one meter away from ordinary farmland and cannot guarantee the requirements of organic fields in terms of water, soil, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides.
In this way, organic products with various problems enter the market all the way to the market, sticking to high-priced labels and flowing to the people's table.
True or False, experts advise consumers on the market's mixed organic products, and consumers are the last barrier. At the scene of CCTV's "Life's Early Reference" program, experts introduced several methods for distinguishing, allowing you to recognize "false organic" at a glance.
1, look at the appearance - top barbed cucumber is usually not a good cucumber.
For fruit and vegetable vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, and loofahs, the flowers of organic products usually show a wilting state rather than bright flowers. Many consumers buy cucumbers like to choose "top barbed", which is a huge misunderstanding.
2, look at the pulp - moisture, but the immature grain, not organic products.
Cut cucumbers or tomatoes and look at the cuts. Organic and ordinary products will be very different. Organic products have tight flesh, low moisture, and full kernels; while ordinary products have loose flesh, no kernels, or immature grains, water is often dripped when cut due to high moisture content.
3, look at storage - organic products can remain fresh for a longer period of time.
The reporter did an experiment and observed both the organic and ordinary vegetables picked at the same time in the same environment. On the first day, ordinary vegetables looked more full and full of colors than organic vegetables; the next day, ordinary vegetables The appearance change is very obvious. Due to the large moisture content of ordinary vegetables, the evaporation of water causes the common vegetables to quickly wilt, which changes from a large bundle to a small bundle, while the organic vegetables do not change significantly. On the third day, ordinary vegetables appear to be rotted. Organic vegetables do not rot.
4, simple method to identify organic eggs.
Beat the egg in a small mouth and look up at the flow rate of the egg white. Normally, the flow rate of organic or chopped egg whites is slow, while ordinary eggs will soon flow out due to the large moisture content of egg whites.
Myth: "Organic" must draw a clear line with "pharmaceutical" and "fat"?
Since the state has strict regulations on organic product standards, isn't organic products bound to use pesticides for fertilization? In our conception, organic and "pharmaceutical" and "fertilizer" must be clearly defined, and when someone sees something like "copper-hydroxide" in the organic field, they think that there is a problem with this piece of land.
This concept is actually wrong. In international organic agriculture, "copper hydroxide" is a bactericide that is generally allowed to be used in a prescribed range and quantity. Organic farming does not use any medicines or fertilizers, but instead uses biological fertilizers and biopesticides under strict regulations. However, chemical drugs commonly used in ordinary agriculture, such as “ethephon” (commonly known as “ripening agents”), are absolutely prohibited in organic agriculture.
The Necessity of Organic Agriculture: An Amazing Set of Data 25 and 8 -
In 1975, every kilogram of fertilizer used on our land could produce 25 kilograms of grain;
By 2008, the same input of 1 kilogram of fertilizer would only produce 8 kilograms of grain.
To produce enough food, farmers can only increase fertilizer use. For agricultural production, this is a vicious cycle. The end result is that no crop can be planted in the land. Every year, there is a large amount of land on the earth that is salinized due to the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and can no longer be cultivated. At the same time, increasing input into chemical fertilizers has seriously polluted the environment and water sources, causing great harm to human health.
Conclusion: The planned development of organic agriculture can effectively protect the land and ensure the healthy and sustainable development of agriculture.
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Over the past 100 years, due to the large-scale development of modern agriculture and excessive dependence on chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the varieties of our crops have disappeared by 70%. Therefore, although we have improved our aquatic products and the types of food appear to be more abundant, in fact we can absorb much less nutrition than 300 years ago.
Conclusion: Organic agriculture is conducive to the protection of the diversity of the Earth's species and is of great significance to protecting the environment and protecting humanity itself.
CCTV's "Early Morning Reference": Organic Foods Says "Organic Food Says" series will begin on February 27, and will be broadcast at 8:35 a.m. every morning in the central "Life's Morning Reference." This series of programs addresses inquiries about organic food purchase, authenticity, safety, nutrition, etc., conducts in-depth investigations, inquiries step by step, and looks for the truth. And invited industry experts to answer questions on the current market chaos, consumer support.
The first episode "The Confusion of Organic Food Purchases"
The organic farmer's market is an emerging form of shopping that is favored by consumers. However, the reporters found that not all organic foods sold on the market are organic. Is it natural to purchase organic food through such channels? What issues need attention? Supermarkets, specialty stores, and online shopping are the main channels for buying organic foods. Which channel is more reliable and more cost-effective? There are many kinds of labels for organic foods. When buying, what problems can be avoided? This episode answers the purchase of organic food.
The second episode "The Confusion of Organic Food"
The reporter visited the planting base of organic vegetables and discovered many surprising phenomena: Some organic farm fields have used fertilizers and pesticides casually, some have not strictly followed the organic standards, and some have failed to plant their plants... These places The vegetables that are produced all flow to the market in the name of organic vegetables. Why is there such a situation? Faced with genuine and fake organic vegetables, how can consumers distinguish between them? This episode reveals the reasons for organic fraud and invites experts to demonstrate how to distinguish organic vegetables.
The third episode "The Confusion of Organic Food Safety"
When we are concerned about food safety, we expect to ensure safety by eating genuine organic foods. But experts tell us that organic foods cannot be a straw for food safety. As a high-end food, organic food can not meet people's daily needs from the quantity to the price, and it is rational to consume organic food.
The fourth episode "The Confusion of Organic Food Nutrition"
People are willing to pay high prices for organic foods. In addition to safety considerations, they believe that it is more nutritious and delicious. How is the truth in the end? The reporter picked two kinds of organic and ordinary vegetables and sent them to the laboratory for testing the nutritional content. Experts will interpret experimental data in the studio and invite volunteers to taste it on the spot to reveal the mystery of nutrition and taste of organic food.
The fifth episode "Organic, not only for health"
If organic foods are not as magic as we thought, why is it still being strongly promoted? In fact, behind the organic food, there is still a deeper meaning. In the studio, we will see the huge difference between organic soil and ordinary soil, the obvious difference between organic seeds and common seeds, and we will learn more about organic agriculture through a group of shocking figures cited by experts. That is: Strictly regulated organic agriculture can not only bring us more safe food, but also benefit the future of land, environment and humanity.
