Chewing children's jujube is harmful

Marmalade is familiar from childhood. And now there is such an opinion that chewing children's marmalade is harmful. Is this really so, we'll try to figure it out together.

Very useful, tasty and amazing delicacy - marmalade. Of the whole range of sweets, marmalade is the most "right". It consists of: agar-agar, gelatin, pectin, fruit puree. Some ingredients are produced by algae, and pectin is a dietary fiber, in large quantities contained in citrus, apple, apricots.

What does marmalade consist of? Jelly marmalade includes a gelling agent - pectin, gelatin, or agar; In addition, it includes sugar-flavored syrup, juices of various fruits, dyes, flavors, sugar, or its substitute, if marmalade is made for the prevention of diabetes.
Fruit-berry material is based on gelling apple sauce, which is usually obtained from winter apple varieties. For flavor variety add cranberry, rowan, or other berry puree. It is because of these additives that marmalade contains a lot of vitamin C.
We list the useful properties of marmalade:
1) It is a sweet product with a very low calorie content, does not contain fat, and claims to be a dietary product.
2) Pectin, contained in marmalade, is a body cleanser from slags, participates in the removal of toxins and radionuclides, eliminates imbalance in the digestive system, lowers cholesterol. Pectin is found in apples, citrus peels, watermelons, sugar beet, algae. All of the above and is the raw material for the production of pectin.
3) Agar, contained in marmalade, improves the activity of the liver, removes toxins from the body. Agar-agar is obtained from red and brown algae.
4) Gelatin has a beneficial effect on the health of the skin and hair. Gelatin is a mixture of proteins derived from the body of animals
5) Marmalade relieves stress, is an excellent antidepressant.
All these properties make the wonderful product of jujube very tasty and useful.
Lemon slices
At present, this citric acid is not used in the production of lemon and orange lobules. Now, they prefer various dyes, flavors, which are similar to natural dyes. The composition for lemon slices is colored in yellow, for orange slices - in orange. Of course, nothing terrible and supernatural in this. Flavor, identical to natural, speaks only of the fact that it has the same properties, just the price is slightly lower than that of this product. Such flavors are used to produce the smell of the corresponding product. More flavors are stored more and do not react with other products
Chewing marmalade
In the modern world this is a novelty. In Russia, imported somewhere in the early 1990, visually almost no different from ordinary marmalade, only chewed longer. It has excellent taste qualities, does not stick to hands, and all this makes this product very popular, and every year its popularity increases.
To obtain such marmalade, molasses, sugar, gelatin, citric acid, pectin, a mixture of waxes and fats, flavors, colorants are used. Pectin and gelatin make this product elastic. A mixture of wax and fat is designed to ensure that the figures of marmalade do not stick to each other, and to give a shine to the surface. In addition, this mixture prevents drying. It contains 90% vegetable fat and about 10% beeswax, which is also a very useful product. When a person chews beeswax, then the teeth are cleaned, the amount of vitamins is increased, the oral cavity is disinfected. Thus, this marmalade can be swallowed without harm to health. And it is much more useful than a conventional chewing gum.

Thus, masticatory juvenile marmalade does not in any way negatively affect the health and development of your child.