There is edible gold
Almost everyone knows about gold jewelry, but have you heard of gold food? As early as the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese have recognized the health care and medical effects of gold. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Ming Dynasty recorded: "Eating gold can calm the spirit, strengthen the bone marrow, and relieve the evil spirits of the five internal organs. It is used by gods. Gold foil is especially used in pills. Take it loosely to break the air-conditioning and eliminate wind."
The gold used for "importation" as food is not ordinary gold bricks, gold bars
and gold rings. Gold used for food ingredients must be processed gold foil. It is said that Ge Hong, an alchemist in the Jin Dynasty, created the gold foil craft. This kind of fine processing of pure gold through more than ten processes turns gold of varying sizes into uniform, thin gold foil, which has become a kind of gold foil for the Chinese nation. A special traditional craft, known in the world as "one of the best in China", can turn a gold ring into gold foil the size of a basketball court. Later, gold foil technology was gradually 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-lettered plaques, etc., such as gilding on Buddha statues, gilding on carved beams and painted buildings, and gilding for decoration. Because it is as thin as a cicada's wing and its molecular structure is easily separated and absorbed, it is the best choice as a food raw material. But how much gold leaf should be added to a ton of wine? How much gold foil can an adult eat in a day? There is no way to talk about these standards, and there is an urgent need for relevant departments to make regulations through scientific research, because on the one hand, they are related to the health of the people, and on the other hand, they are closely related to preventing huge profits and maintaining the normal market economic order.
The "gold-eating wind" is blowing again. Nowadays, edible gold foil is popular in Japan and Southeast Asia. Gold foil feasts, gold foil wine, gold foil water, gold foil candies, and gold foil pastries have become high-end and popular products 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 currently 31 domestic companies producing gold foil wine. Some experts analyze that as people pay more and more attention to health, "food money" is not only satisfied with the high-end consumer class, but is very likely to become popular among the "middle class" people.