Argentina: Aloe Vera was officially recognized as an ingredient for food and beverages

Published 2021년 3월 30일

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The Argentine Food Code (CAA) has recently incorporated Aloe Vera juice as a food and beverage ingredient, following a resolution by the Ministry of Agriculture and Health. This resolution limits the maximum aloin content in foods and beverages containing aloe vera, a plant known for its purgative properties. The resolution also warns against the consumption of these products by children under 12, pregnant, and breastfeeding women. Aloe vera, native to tropical Africa and Asia, is cultivated in Argentina and other warm climates. The plant is harvested every year, with each adult plant yielding around 12 leaves, and the total yield per hectare ranging from 30 to 54 tons.

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Beyond the long history that Aloe Vera has among us, it has never been officially recognized as a possible ingredient for the preparation of food and beverages. This lack has just been corrected with the incorporation of the juice of that plant into the Argentine Food Code (CAA). The recognition of Aloe Vera juice was produced through a resolution shared by the Ministry of Agriculture and its counterpart for Health, which administer the CAA. What was done was to incorporate Article 827 bis, which defines that "the name of Aloe Vera means the leaf / stem of the species of Aloe Barbadensis Miller and Aloe arborescens". In this sense, the resolution explains that "aloe is native to tropical Africa and is currently cultivated in warm climatic zones of Asia, Europe and America." But he immediately clarifies that "there are more than 250 species of aloe cultivated throughout the world, however, only two species are cultivated commercially." They are those that were authorized as input ...

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