Cheap and Easy Tips Eliminate Formalin In Food

What’s Formalin?

Formalin is a trade name formaldehid solution in the water with the 30-40 percent level। In the market, formalin can be obtained in the form has been diluted, with percentage formaldehid 40, 30, 20 and 10 percent and in the form of a tablet each weighing about 5 grams.

Danger Formalin In Food

Formalin is a dangerous and toxic materials for human health. If it’s go into our bodies with food and if it's high amount in the body, the chemical will react with almost all substances in the cells so that the function of cells and cause the death of cells that cause the body poisoned. Besides, the womb of formalin in the body also cause :

1. stomach irritation
2. allergy
3. carsinogenic (causing cancer)
4. a mutagen (causing changes in cell function / network)
5. the people who will consume vomiting, diarrhea mixed with blood, urine mixed with blood, and caused the death of circulatory failure.

Formalin when vapor in the air, in the form of gas that is not colored, with a sharp odor tighten, so it stimulates the nose, throat, and eyes. (DEPKES RI)

Tips Eliminate Formalin In Food

Tips from Dra SUKESI M. Si, Lecturer Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences ITS, to reduce the formalin in food that has been preserved with formalin, we can take advantage. Moreover way offered that is very cheap and easy, and can be done by all of us that only with how to treat the food before consumption.

1. Deformalinisasi process of salted fish (Ikan Asin) can be done in a way soaking (merendam) salted fish in three kinds of solvents are water, salt solven and leri water (water used to wash rice).

• Soaking in water for 60 minutes is able to lower the rate to 61.25 percent formalin
• Soaking in leri water (water used to wash rice) during the 60 minutes is able to reduce formalin to 66.03 percent
• Soaking in salt water is able to reduce formalin to 89.53 percent

2. Deformalinisasi process of Tofu (Tahu) can be done with a three-way soaked in water, in hot water, boiled in boiling water, steamed and boiled in boiling water and followed by the toasting process.

3. Deformalinisasi process of noodle (Bakmie) is the way soaking in hot water for 30 minutes, where the results could eliminate kadar formalin to reach 100 percent.

4. Deformalinisasi process of fresh fish, can be done with the solution soak in vinegar (Cuka) 5 percent for 15 minutes.