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1. These are the **issues** that anti-oxidants need to adding to food: · The foods have short storage · Food will produce bad smells quickly. · Vitamin and protein will destroy too. · Food will produce free radicals and fatty peroxides which are very dangerous to consume. · Producer get few benefit because the produce out of order quickly. 2. Beside that, we have the issues about side effect of synthetic anti-oxidant especially TBHQ.

Antioxidants Antioxidants are additives used to protect food components that are not saturated (have double bonds), especially fats and oils. Although such antioxidants can also be used to protect other components such as vitamins and pigments, which also contains a lot of double bonds in the structure Mechanism of action of antioxidants in general is the inhibited oxidation of fat. To facilitate understanding of the mechanism of action needs to be explained first antioxidant mechanism of fat oxidation This is all about food storages. There are foods have any short time to oxidized and must be eaten immediately e.g. fruits juice need not to add anti-oxidants. If consumer doesn’t eat the foods immediately, the consumer must add food anti-oxidants to get long time food storage. Anti-oxidants prevent oxidizing fat and oil in food by air, if the foods not use anti-oxidants, the “ketengikan” process will quickly. (Rusman,2010)

Tert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) is a white, crystalline solid having a characteristic odor. It is practically insoluble in water but soluble in alcohol and in ether. TBHQ is a general purpose antioxidant used to preserve various oils, fats and food items by retarding their oxidative deterioration. It is used in formulating varnish, lacquer, resins and oil field additives. It is used a fixative in perfumery to reduce the evaporation rate and improve stability. It is used as a stabilizer to inhibit the auto-polymerization of organic peroxides. TBHQ is generally used as an antioxidant in animal-derived food products and in fats or oils. It is often used in conjunction with butylated hydroxyanisole, butylated hydroxytoluene, and propyl gallate to provide a synergistic antioxidant effect.



Hydroxyl groups are active part of this substance, it can be dangerous if consumed excessively. Hydroxyl group act as proton donator. Fat or oil have symbol R-H. In oxidizing fat or oil, Hydrogen (H) will disappear, so fat or oil will be radical (R*). Radical fat or oil lost proton from hydrogen and hydroxyl group in TBHQ can donate the proton to R* become R-H. So, R-H (fat or oil) will still be exist in the food for a long time, TBHQ works like that. R* are very dangerous for human body. If human consume TBHQ excessively, hydroxyl group in TBHQ will disturb the balance of chemical reaction in DNA. Genes in DNA will be contaminated and the cells will grow uncontrolled, which will produce cancer. Need further study.(Rusman,2010) (Source: BPOM,2010; with editing)
 * There are some foods in Indonesia containing TBHQ : **
 * |||||||| **Kandungan Zat Aktif** ||
 * ** ID ** || ** NAMA PRODUK ** || ** JENIS MAKANAN ** || ** KANDUNGAN ZAT ADDITIVE ** ||
 * 1 || Chitato || Makanan Ringan || **TBHQ**,MSG, CaCO3, DG, DI, pewarna, NaB ||
 * 2 || Chitos || Makanan Ringan || DG, DI, CaCO3, FF, **TBHQ**, pewarna, NaB, MSG ||
 * 6 || Potato Steak || Makanan Ringan || DG, DI, CaCO3, FF, **TBHQ**, MSG ||
 * 8 || Balls || Makanan Ringan || **TBHQ**, MSG, CaCO3, DG, DI, pewarna, NaB, Si ||
 * 10 || Double Dekker || Makanan Ringan || **TBHQ**, MSG, CaCO3, DG, NaB, pewarna, AS ||
 * 11 || Jet Zet || Makanan Ringan || KB, SB, MSG, NaB, FF, **TBHQ**, pewarna, KCO3, NB ||
 * 12 || Twisko || Makanan Ringan || DG, DI, KCO3, FF, **TBHQ**, **TBHQ**, MSG ||
 * 17 || ABC || Makanan Siap Saji || MSG, NB, KB, CaB, **TBHQ**, Fe, PK, AF ||
 * 46 || Santan Kara || Bumbu Pelengkap dalam Kemasan Plastik || MSG,Sk,P,NB,**TBHQ** ||
 * 50 || Sosis Champ || Makanan dalam Kemasan Plastik || Bd,Nn**,TBHQ**,Po,Pt ||
 * 51 || Sosis Farm House || Makanan dalam Kemasan Plastik || **TBHQ**,Sn,Po,MSG,Bd,Pt,NB ||
 * 52 || Sosis Vida || Makanan dalam Kemasan Plastik || NB,**TBHQ**,Po,Sn,Bd ||
 * 54 || Bakso Vida || Makanan dalam Kemasan Plastik || NB,MSG,Po,**TBHQ**,B ||
 * 55 || Bakso Bernardi || Makanan dalam Kemasan Plastik || **TBHQ**,B,MSG,Po,Sn,NB ||
 * 118 || Fruit Tea || Minuman dalam kaleng || Ps,**TBHQ**,Prs,F,pewarna,NB ||   ||

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