Is Glutinous Rice Glue Really Edible?

Some brands of glutinous rice glue promoted that their glutinous rice glue was edible, and even held a tasting meeting, where employees were asked to taste their glutinous rice glue with soy sauce and vinegar. Is glutinous rice glue, which is used as an auxiliary material for home decoration, really edible? Today, I will answer this question from four perspectives.

1. Temperature

The main component of glutinous rice wet glue is edible starch, which is no problem, but this starch is a denatured food additive. When it is used as an adhesive, the cooking temperature is completely different from that of processed food. It will become a colloidal paste at about 70 ℃, and will age if it exceeds 90 ℃, and the adhesive force will be greatly discounted; As a food, it must reach 100 ° before it can be eaten.

2. Standard certification

No country will allow enterprises producing chemical products to produce food. The sanitary conditions and certification standards of factories must be different from those of food manufacturers.

3. Shelf life

As a food, even if food preservatives are added, if the food materials are not subject to high temperature treatment, they want to exceed the shelf life of more than half a year, unless excessive preservatives are added. As an industrial product, glutinous rice glue has a minimum shelf life of one year.

4. A hotbed of bacteria (why my wallpaper and wallpaper are hairy and moldy)

Starch paste contains a lot of nutrients needed for the growth of microorganisms. Even with the addition of food preservatives, microorganisms must be able to eat anything that people can eat, and it will become a hotbed of bacteria, which is shown on wallpaper and wall cloth as long as hair and mold grow. Imagine what it would be like to paste snacks on the wall? The experiment mentioned by a brand is also a feeding experiment on mice, which can only show that there will be no major problems after human consumption, but it is hard to say about diarrhea (which may carry bacteria as mentioned above).

At this point, I believe everyone knows. However, it doesn't really matter whether glutinous rice glue can be eaten. As an auxiliary material for home decoration and wallpaper pasting, it is enough to reach such an environmental level, and we won't really eat it. Whether glutinous rice glue can be eaten is just a question for businessmen. We don't need to be too serious about the environmental protection of glutinous rice glue. The environment-friendly and durable glue is good! Therefore, the quality of glutinous rice glue mainly depends on the solid content and production materials. The glutinous rice glue added with a lot of starch is relatively poor in terms of stickiness and environmental protection, not in the true sense of glutinous rice glue.