Consuming Canned Fruit is Dangerous to Our Health

Many people prefer consume instant food because it is practicial. We can find a lot of instant foods in many stores around us. One of the instant foods is canned fruit. When people consume canned fruit, they just think that it is more practicial. They do not think that canned fruit has a lot of negative effects to our health. The negative effects of consuming canned fruit are coused by many factors such as the way of processing canned fruit itself and about low attention from the people about the deadline for consuming canned fruit.

            Many reasons support that consuming canned fruit is dangerous to our health. The first reason is all canned foods contain preservatives to make the food durable in cans. The producers usually use artificial preservatives that are dangerous to the health of consumers. The artificial preservatives like Asam Benzoate and Asam Sorbate that cause cancer. The second reason is the cans that used to wrap the fruit contain Bisfenol A (BPA) that give negativee effects to human’s health. Prof John Marker, a researcher from the University of Michigan, United States said that DNA that contain hight level of BPA were damaged 10 percent. Beside that BPA also cause some diseases like cancer, liver damage, obesity and diabetes.

            The third reason is cans that used to wrap the fruit also contain PVC that decrease the production of hormones in our body. The next reason of consuming canned fruit is increase the risk of brain damage and low IQ to children. A research from University of Bristol, England showed that children who onsume more instant food before they are three years have a lower IQ five years later. The last reason is most of the canned fruit in Indonesia are imported from abroad and the packaging of canned fruit use foreign language that not everyone can understand it. Most of them only believe that the foods are save to consume.

            Consuming canned fruit give more negative effects than positive effects. So, for the readers especially the houswive is better if you prefer fresh fruit than canned fruit because fresh fruit contain no artificial preservatives and make us become healthy. For the producers should use natural preservatives in the production of canned fruit.  For the government should monitor the distribution of canned fruit and give sanction to the producers who are not responsible for the production of canned fruit.