Why eat gold? (4 photos)

Today, edible gold is quite an ordinary thing. In many restaurants you can find dishes decorated with such gold. But is there in What is the point of such luxury?





Edible gold is pure pure gold. As part of dishes, it can be labeled as a food additive E175 (by the way, E174 - Is this silver).

Such decoration of dishes is sold on the thinnest sheets (approximately 100 nanometers - 0.0001 mm). It can also be in the form of flakes or powder.



Edible gold is used in a wide variety of dishes, application is limited only by the imagination of the cook. It is added to drinks they cover desserts with it, sprinkle dishes abundantly, as if it were not gold, but grated cheese.





"Golden" dessert

This is not a modern food discovery at all. After all, food gold was used by the ancient Egyptians (almost 5000 years ago). They generally used it for spiritual and bodily cleansing, holy believing that it has divine properties.

Many alchemists brewed healing potions with gold. And even Paracelsus himself, who founded modern pharmacology, made tablets with gold.



Sushi with food gold

Is there any benefit from it?

Gold is not absorbed by the body. It comes out the same way. which comes in, so there seems to be no benefit. But food vendors gold assures that there is a benefit to the body and that it heals almost everything. But only in 1975 and in 2016 studies were carried out and nothing it was not possible to find even the slightest bit useful in edible gold.