Nutritional Enriching Agents

The reason why we use nutritional enriching agent is that it can enhance the nutrition of food by adding minor amount. Now, the nutritional enriching agent allowed to be used is limited to vitamin, amino acid, and inorganic salts. Common vitamins include A, B1, B2, B12, C, D, E and its derivatives; common amino acids include eight kinds of essential amino acids and their derivatives; mineral salts are mainly calcium, iron, zinc and some other minor elements. When using nutritional enriching agent, we should pay attention to not affect the original flavor of food and maintain nutrients in a reasonable balance. An overdose of nutritional enriching agent will cause metabolic disturbance, even lead to poisoning.