{"id":1268,"date":"2022-03-15T21:46:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/sem-categoria\/cera-em-frutas-e-vegetais\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T19:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:12:50","slug":"cera-em-frutas-e-vegetais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/nutricao-dietetica\/cera-em-frutas-e-vegetais\/","title":{"rendered":"Cera em frutas e vegetais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container claim-key-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0 0 1px 0;border-color:#002b5f;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1456px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_4_5 4_5 fusion-flex-column claim-key-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 claim-key-content\"><p><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-167\" src=\"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/true.svg\" alt=\"C\u00edrculo verde com ponto de interroga\u00e7\u00e3o no interior\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/> Muito provavelmente ou definitivamente verdadeiro<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-166\" src=\"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/false.svg\" alt=\"C\u00edrculo vermelho com X no interior\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/>Falso\/ desinforma\u00e7\u00e3o<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-168\" src=\"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unsure.svg\" alt=\"C\u00edrculo cinzento com ponto de interroga\u00e7\u00e3o no interior\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/>Ainda n\u00e3o temos a certeza<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:80% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 2.4%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 2.4%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:80% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 2.4%;margin-left : 2.4%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 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pesquisa<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:20% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 9.6%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 9.6%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:20% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 9.6%;margin-left : 9.6%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-1{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}<\/style><\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e2e2e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1456px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><h2 id=\"enter-claim-here\">Comer frutas e vegetais (como ma\u00e7\u00e3s) com revestimento de cera provoca cancro<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3 factfinder-entry-text\"><h3 id=\"o-que-pode-ter-ouvido\">O que pode ter ouvido<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consumir a cera em frutas e vegetais pode aumentar o risco de desenvolver cancro. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-science-tells-us\">O que nos diz a ci\u00eancia<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cera da fruta, que \u00e9 altamente dilu\u00edda, cont\u00e9m fungicidas para inibir o crescimento de fungos, cana-de-a\u00e7\u00facar, cera de abelha, cera de carna\u00faba e resinas.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"evid\u00eancias-epidemiol\u00f3gicas\"><strong>Evid\u00eancias epidemiol\u00f3gicas<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Produtos qu\u00edmicos como pesticidas associados \u00e0 produ\u00e7\u00e3o de frutas podem conter subst\u00e2ncias cancer\u00edgenas, mas n\u00e3o existem evid\u00eancias de estudos em humanos de que a exposi\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 cera de frutas ou vegetais contenha subst\u00e2ncias qu\u00edmicas que causem cancro quando consumidos por seres humanos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Ag\u00eancia de Prote\u00e7\u00e3o Ambiental (EPA) \u00e9 respons\u00e1vel por garantir que todos os pesticidas ou fungicidas cumprem a Lei de Prote\u00e7\u00e3o da Qualidade dos Alimentos (Food Quality Protection Act, FQPA). A EPA afirma que as frutas e os vegetais tratados com pesticidas s\u00e3o seguros e que podem ser consumidos \u201ccom uma certeza razo\u00e1vel de n\u00e3o prejudicar beb\u00e9s e crian\u00e7as, bem como adultos\u201d (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/safepestcontrol\/food-and-pesticides\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EPA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). A EPA monitoriza constantemente pesticidas novos e existentes para garantir que podem ser consumidos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cera das frutas \u00e9 monitorizada pela Food and Drug Administration (FDA) dos EUA. A FDA afirma que os fabricantes e empresas de retalho devem seguir as diretrizes espec\u00edficas da Lei Federal dos Alimentos, Medicamentos e Cosm\u00e9ticos (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/regulatory-information\/laws-enforced-fda\/federal-food-drug-and-cosmetic-act-fdc-act\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Lei FD)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Isto inclui o uso de ingredientes seguros e comest\u00edveis no revestimento de qualquer produto e minimiza o risco de revestimentos nocivos encontrados em frutas e vegetais (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/regulatory-information\/search-fda-guidance-documents\/cpg-sec-562550-safety-and-labeling-waxed-coated-fruits-and-vegetables\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FDA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"evid\u00eancias-laboratoriais\/elem\"><strong>Evid\u00eancias laboratoriais\/elementos comprovativos<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Existem evid\u00eancias laboratoriais limitadas sobre os efeitos da cera de frutas e vegetais em animais. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"classifica\u00e7\u00e3o-carcinog\u00e9nica\"><strong><i>Classifica\u00e7\u00e3o carcinog\u00e9nica do CIIC:<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> N\u00e3o classificado<\/span><\/h4>\n<h3 id=\"how-to-reduce-your-risk\">Como reduzir o risco<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A FDA n\u00e3o aprova nenhum revestimento cancer\u00edgeno utilizado em produtos alimentares. Se houver um revestimento, este foi analisado e considerado seguro para consumo pela FDA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Se ainda preferir evitar comer o revestimento ceroso, existem frutas que n\u00e3o cont\u00eam revestimento. Muitas vezes, os produtos indicam no r\u00f3tulo se incluem um revestimento nos seus ingredientes. Se n\u00e3o forem indicados no produto, geralmente est\u00e3o indicados no site do produto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estes revestimentos tamb\u00e9m podem ser facilmente removidos sob \u00e1gua corrente ou, se o revestimento for repelente de \u00e1gua, ao descascar. Lavar e descascar frutas e vegetais \u00e9 uma \u00f3tima forma de garantir que n\u00e3o ingere o revestimento ceroso.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"bottom-line\">Conclus\u00e3o<\/h3>\n<p>Os revestimentos em frutas e vegetais n\u00e3o s\u00e3o perigosos de acordo com as diretrizes da FDA e da EPA, mas lavar ou descascar os produtos ajuda a remover a cera.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"sources-and-links-for-more-inf\">Saiba mais nestas fontes fidedignas<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/regulatory-information\/laws-enforced-fda\/federal-food-drug-and-cosmetic-act-fdc-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Lei FD) <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/regulatory-information\/search-fda-guidance-documents\/cpg-sec-562550-safety-and-labeling-waxed-coated-fruits-and-vegetables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CPG Sec 562.550 Seguran\u00e7a e rotulagem de frutas e vegetais <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/regulatory-information\/search-fda-guidance-documents\/cpg-sec-562550-safety-and-labeling-waxed-coated-fruits-and-vegetables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">encerados (revestidos) <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/safepestcontrol\/food-and-pesticides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ag\u00eancia de Prote\u00e7\u00e3o Ambiental (EPA): Pesticidas e alimentos (em ingl\u00eas) <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/ipcs\/publications\/jecfa\/en\/summary_final.pdf?ua=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Organiza\u00e7\u00e3o Mundial da Sa\u00fade (OMS): Aditivos alimentares (em ingl\u00eas)<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"date\">Data<\/h3>\n<p>24 de junho de 2021<br \/>\nVerifica\u00e7\u00e3o\/atualiza\u00e7\u00e3o: 22 de agosto de 2022<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}<\/style><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[131],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancerfactfinder.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}