A few years ago, organic food was still a nascent concept for the general public, but nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standards and their pursuit of healthy, high-quality diets, organic food is gradually making its way onto ordinary people's dining tables. Journalists recently learned in Changchun, Jilin Province that...
Organic food has received special favor from the general public this winter.
Consumers are optimistic about organic food, with sales growing since the beginning of winter. “I feel that organic food is very important for human health, because organic food does not contain chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and is very safe and healthy to eat,” said Li Qinghui, a resident of Changchun, Jilin Province. Organic food is currently a relatively unified international term for pollution-free natural food, referring to food produced and processed according to organic farming and processing methods, with the prohibition of chemically synthesized pesticides, fertilizers, hormones, food additives, etc., and the prohibition of the use of products and derivatives of genetic engineering technology. On the 25th, the reporter saw in some organic food stores in Changchun that organic foods such as rice, dried noodles, honey, fruit juice, and vegetables were not only diverse but also had many buyers.
Cui Haiyan, store manager of the Changchun sales office of an organic food company in Jilin Province, told the reporter: “The reason why so many ordinary people choose organic food is that the standard of living has now improved, and their consumption concepts are also different. People place more emphasis on a healthy diet and a healthy life.”
The reporter learned from some organic food stores in Changchun that due to the favor of the public, the sales volume of organic food in Changchun has been rising steadily since the beginning of winter. Nowadays, healthy and pollution-free organic food can be seen on more and more people's dining tables.
Expert interpretation: Health and longevity depend on organic food.
What benefits does eating organic food have for the human body? To understand this, let us first listen to agricultural experts explain what harm vegetables and fruits produced with chemical fertilizers and pesticides do to the human body. The answer will then naturally emerge.
According to Liu Ling, associate researcher at the Vegetable Research Center of the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, the pesticide currently mainly used by vegetable farmers is organophosphorus, which harms the human nervous system, and the neurotoxicity it produces can also trigger adverse metabolic reactions in the human body. If vegetables and fruits with excessive organophosphorus pesticide residues are consumed over a long period, they can damage the human liver and kidneys. The cultivation of vegetables mainly uses nitrogen fertilizer, that is, urea. After plants absorb this chemical fertilizer, they are basically not affected, but after people eat chemical fertilizer residues on vegetables, part of it can be converted in the human body into nitrosamine, which is a strong carcinogen and can lead to stomach cancer or esophageal cancer. According to testing by relevant departments, vegetables produced in the Beijing area currently rarely have excessive pesticide residues, while vegetables entering Beijing from other places are more seriously affected, with 60% of vegetables failing to meet standards.
At present, vegetables and fruits eaten by ordinary people, such as kiwifruit forced to grow large with swelling agents, tomatoes ripened with reddening agents, and hydroponic vegetables grown without soil using chemical fertilizers, are all harmful to human health. It is precisely because organic food does not use organic substances such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and does not use genetically modified species, that it has neither known harm to the human body nor unknown potential harm from genetically modified species. Of course, the process of producing organic food also includes giving back to the environment. Its cost is often higher than that of ordinary food, and its market price is also somewhat more expensive, but many consumers are still willing to buy organic food. The reasons are, on the one hand, that people consider it spending money to buy health, and on the other hand, to a large extent, it also includes people's concern for environmental safety. These are all the benefits of eating organic food for people.
Worsening environmental pollution leads people to choose organic food.
According to agricultural experts, in earlier years China's environmental protection focused on cities and on the prevention and control of industrial pollution, and rural environmental protection work was not placed on the agenda. In recent years, it has gradually been recognized that pollution caused by chemical fertilizers, pesticides, plastic film, and other materials used in agricultural production itself is relatively serious. At present, the national environmental protection focus is mainly on the excessive application of chemical fertilizers, but the utilization rate is relatively low, generally only 30% to 40%, with the rest entering the environment and entering water, causing pollution of lakes and reservoirs. In addition, after excessive application of chemical fertilizers enters groundwater, it becomes strong carcinogens such as nitrates and nitrites, affecting human health. These pollutions have affected the quality of agricultural products and also affected people's health. In addition, chemical substances such as preservatives and pigments used in food processing are also harmful to the human body. It is precisely because of these factors that China must develop organic agriculture and provide healthy and safe organic food for the people.
The organic food industry is gradually becoming a “money tree” for Jilin agriculture.”
During the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, Jilin Province, with its advantageous resources in Changbai Mountain, “moved” the entire Changbai Mountain into the venue, focusing on the concept of green, environmental protection, and abundant natural resources. Behind this was the determination of this major agricultural province to make the concept of organic agriculture bigger and stronger. Many green and organic foods from Jilin Province also took advantage of the momentum to enter southern markets. Products such as wood ear mushrooms, ginseng, deer antlers, and wild vegetables from Jilin Province also entered the mid-to-high-end consumer market by obtaining organic certification and World Expo recognition while emphasizing the health concept.
Jilin Province is a well-known major province of agricultural resources in China and a major province for the production and processing of green, high-quality, and safe agricultural products. It is also an important national commodity grain base and a key ecological demonstration zone under construction. The province has 5.58 million hectares of cultivated land, 7.865 million hectares of forest land, and 3 million hectares of grassland, with a forest coverage rate of 42.5%. It possesses the three unique advantages of great forests, a great granary, and great grasslands, with good ecological resources, superior development environment, and extremely rich resources in grain, livestock, forestry, specialty products, and medicinal materials. The development of the green food industry has great advantages and potential.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11309/
Reprinted from China Food News / 2011 / January / 3 / Page 008. Reporter Xin Ming.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11309/