Is there really no harm to the body if you eat gold leaf ice cream?

Gold leaf ice cream is actually not unusual, Japan, France and other countries have developed a variety of "gold" food in recent years, such as gold steak, gold coffee and so on. China also has gold wine, gold mooncakes, etc


The existence of gold leaf food is purely to make people feel a "rich" pleasure, bring mainly visual feelings, does not give any nutritional value, eat no taste or aroma, mainly to play the role of pigment. At the same time, it is also because gold has good ductility and plasticity, it is possible to appear in food processing. One gram of gold can be beaten into about 0.5 square meters of pure gold foil, with a thickness of 0.12 microns. 1 micron is equivalent to one millionth of a meter.

Gold leaf is very safe for consumption. Internationally, many countries and authorities have concluded that there is no safety issue with eating gold leaf as long as the wallet is strong enough. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) has allowed international standards for food to specify the use of gold leaf on an as-needed basis as early as 1977. There is also currently no daily allowable intake in the EU, that is, no upper limit of intake. Countries and regions such as Japan, Ireland and Taiwan allow the use of gold foil as a food additive.