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Nitrite and Nitrate Levels in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup & Nitrites in Blood-red Swiftlet’s Spit Soup

Nitrite and Nitrate Levels in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup

Following up the incident of nitrites in blood-red Swiftlet’s Spit Soup, a local university conducted a study on nitrite and nitrate levels in Swiftlet’s Spit Soups revealing the presence of both chemicals in all 67 samples of Swiftlet’s Spit Soups. The amounts varied significantly with blood-red Swiftlet’s Spit Soups having the highest average levels.
In Hong Kong , nitrite and nitrate are not permitted to be added in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup, but relevant regulation is not applicable to nitrite and nitrate naturally present in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup. The mechanism of the natural presence of nitrite in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is not entirely clear. Some suggested that nitrite may be formed due to fermentation and the levels may vary with the extent of environmental contamination.
To alleviate public concern, the local university study also tested and confirmed that majority of nitrites and nitrates can be removed by washing and soaking. To reduce exposure to nitrites and nitrates, Swiftlet’s Spit Soup should be washed and soaked for several hours or even overnight before cooking. Soaking water should be replaced once or twice during the process and be discarded.

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Nitrites in Blood-red Swiftlet’s Spit Soup

Recently, high levels of nitrites were detected in blood-red Swiftlet’s Spit Soup samples in the Mainland market. There were concerns that nitrites might have been added to Swiftlet’s Spit Soup to produce the desirable red colour.
Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is made from secretions of Swiftlets' salivary glands and usually consumed as a delicacy in Chinese cuisine. The reason for the red colour of blood-red Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is not entirely clear.
Nitrites are not allowed to be added to Swiftlet’s Spit Soup in Hong Kong , although it is known that they may exist naturally in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup under certain conditions. Traders should source Swiftlet’s Spit Soups from reliable suppliers and ensure all foods they sell or import are fit for human consumption. The common practice of soaking Swiftlet’s Spit Soups for several hours, or even overnight, and washing them thoroughly with clean water can substantially reduce nitrite levels. Since nitrites are water soluble, The public should discard the water used for soaking Swiftlet’s Spit Soup before cooking.

Millions Of Benefits Of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup

Since 1000 years ago, the Chinese people have already known the special quality and benefits of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup. The food of processed swallow bird is always identical with the royal serving in thet past period. In line with the progress of time, the special quality of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup has been heard and known by the community, so that at present not only the royal family able to enjoy the nutrition and benefits of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup, but also whole people are able to enjoy the serving of high nutrition of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup.

The Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is so special, different from other birds in general. Its specialty is the saliva of swallow bird constituting the main material of the Swiftlet’s Spit Soup derives from glandula sublingualis gland. This gland is proven able to increase the system of your immunity. It is not only good for the immunity of our body, but some contents in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup can also improve the health of your body, more over for the young professional requiring the serving of high nutrition in maintaining the healthy physic, so that they can always improve their productivity.

The following are several contents and benefits of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup:

1. High Calcium:

The content of high calcium in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is proven able to maintain the stability of our body and protected from the bone porousness.

2. Ph Alkaline:

The mineral contained in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup causes the Swiftlet’s Spit Soup has the alkali nature, so that it makes the condition of our body having alkali nature and helps the process of detoxification in our body.

3. Sialic Acid:

The presence of sialic acid in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is proven able to help accelerate the cell regeneration in our body, so that it is not only able to motivate the growth and repair our body tissues but also prevent the early aging on the skin.
Certainly their special quality and benefits are more than that. The Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is proven to be able to make the reproduction system healthy, beautify and maintain the skin health, strengthen the lungs, prevent us from cancer, and even able to be the treatment for AIDS. The special quality and benefits of the Swiftlet’s Spit Soup are really marvelous, aren’t they? More special thing is that the Swiftlet’s Spit Soups are found many in Indonesia. Therefore, at present, there are so many kinds of processed food and beverages from Swiftlet’s Spit Soup, and one of them is the “Realfit”. Realfit is a beverage made of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup with low calorie, since the sugar applied is stevia sugar. Although having low calorie, stevia has the sweet taste 300 times as much as the taste of sugar. That is why, please find out the thousand benefits of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup with the sweet taste of stevia sugar in a bottle of Realfit.