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What is edible gold?
Eating gold means that the wind of eating gold is rising again. At present, gold foil is popular in Japan and Southeast Asia. Gold foil dinner, gold foil wine, gold foil water, gold foil candy and gold foil cake have become high-end hot items in the market. In some big cities in China, "eating gold" is not only for health care, but also a status symbol. According to incomplete statistics, there are 3 1 enterprises producing gold foil wine in China. Some experts have analyzed that as people pay more and more attention to health, "vegetable money" is not only satisfied with the high-end consumer class, but is likely to spread to the "middle class" crowd.

The trend of eating gold. Almost everyone knows about gold ornaments, but have you ever heard of gold food? As early as the Tang Dynasty, some people thought that gold had health care and medical functions. Li Ming's Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Eat gold, strengthen the spirit, strengthen the bone marrow, dredge the evil spirits of the five internal organs, and worship the gods. In particular, gold foil is used as medicine to break the cold air and remove the wind. "

The standard of eating gold. As an "imported" food, gold is not an ordinary brick, gold bar or gold ring. Gold used as food raw materials must be processed gold foil. According to legend, Ge Hong, an alchemist in the Jin Dynasty, created the gold foil process, which made pure gold undergo more than ten processes of fine processing, turning gold of different sizes into uniform gold foil as thin as cicada's wings, becoming a unique traditional process of the Chinese nation and being praised as "a must in China" in the world. This process can make a gold ring into a gold foil the size of a basketball court. Later, gold foil technology spread to Japan and overseas, becoming the world's gold jewelry processing technology and lasting for a long time. Gold foil is widely used in antique buildings, modern buildings, gold plaques and so on. For example, gilding the Buddha statue, gilding the carved beam, and gilding it for decoration. Because it is as thin as cicada wings, it is the best choice as a food raw material. But how much gold foil can you add to a ton of wine? How much gold foil can an adult eat at most a day? There is no way to talk about these standards, and it is urgent for relevant departments to make regulations through scientific research, because this is related to the health of the people on the one hand, and to preventing profiteering and maintaining the normal market economic order on the other hand (now the Health Planning Commission stipulates that the maximum limit of liquor per kilogram is 0.02g).