Two substandard snacks were ordered off supermarket shelves by the Beijing Food and Drug Administration.Â
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One of the foods is the Jumanxiang beef-flavored flour-based snack produced by the Hunan Xiaoxiao Food Company. It was found to contain too much sweetener. The other food item is sweet garlic, produced by Tianjin Tianyu Pickle Company, which was found to have excessive amounts of saccharin.Â
The chemicals enhance the flavour of sweetness, but have no nutritional value; they have also been linked to weakened gastrointestinal function and adverse effects on the nervous system.Â