Sausages, pickles, salted fish, bacon, these things contain nitrites, eating too much will cause cancer, is this the statement we generally think? Today I come to tell you the truth of the facts, hello everyone, I am Chinese medicine Chen Ying.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter have unique cuisines in each season, especially now in winter, the north likes to make enemas and kimchi, and the south likes salted fish, bacon and so on. Winter fresh vegetables are more expensive, basically everyone will pickle pickles, there are many people have heard that these foods will contain a carcinogen called nitrite, eating too much is not only carcinogenic, but also threatens our lives, so these things can not be often eaten, then this statement is true?
In fact, nitrite, widely exists in a variety of foods, not only we say pickles, fresh vegetables also have nitrites, here in medicine we have been saying: put aside the dose to talk about toxicity, are hooligans. What's going on? You move on.
A girl hospitalized for poisoning due to nitrite overdose
Because nitrite is common in our daily lives, it is okay to ingest a little bit, it is normal, and it will not cause serious situations. But some special foods, its nitrite, may be excessive, today we will talk about these nitrite exceeding the standard of food.
First the first pickles
There is a lot of pickling methods for pickles, you see in South Korea, in their daily food kimchi is the mainstream dish, and I don't see how high the cancer rate is on the other side, so the method is very important. Our daily pickles will take vinegar pickles or salt pickles, of which the vinegar pickles, the content of nitrite is not too much; but with salted pickles, nitrite will have a peak from low to high, usually on the second day to the tenth day, its content will be relatively high, but after more than 20 days, the nitrite content will be reduced to the minimum, there is no impact on us, so see here everyone knows how to eat pickles!
Pickles
Here is a knowledge point, for the pickled pickles themselves, the vitamins have been destroyed The content is very small, and the salt content is relatively high, eat more, not only the problem of nitrite, a large amount of salt will also particularly affect our physical health, especially for the impact of high blood pressure, and the impact of the whole body organs are very much, so the pickles are not recommended to eat more.
The second is sausages and bacon and various brine products
This kind of product, most of the time when making, will add nitrite, why? Because nitrite, can be more long-term preservation of such foods, play to prevent the production of botulinum toxin, botulinum toxin is a very strong lethal bacteria, this toxin is likely to cause death, so nitrite is also a very good preservative, but the amount of addition, our country has a clear order requirements, to eat this kind of food containing nitrite, be sure to buy more formal food produced by large factories. For the streets and alleys of their own production of halogen, when they are made, many people do not know this dosage standard, it is possible to cause the content of sodium nitrite will be relatively high, once the standard is exceeded, the impact on our body will be relatively large, some people will say that they may not add this nitrite when they are made, we normal people are unable to distinguish, so it is recommended that you try to eat less of this halogen product. In addition, nitrite is actually ingested in small amounts, it is itself non-toxic, but in a specific environment, it is easy to form nitrite amines when combined with proteins, and this nitrite amine is the real carcinogen.
The key knowledge comes, how do we eat so that these nitrites in the body cannot be converted into ammonia nitrite?
A very common vitamin, it is called vitamin C. Usually especially love to eat a variety of brine sausages, a variety of pickled products, a variety of pickles, may ingest a large amount of nitrite, must eat more vitamin C, to eat more vegetables and fruits, eat more vitamin C-rich food, so that you can effectively prevent, excessive intake of nitrite, converted into nitrite in the body.
And we often go to buy a lot of processed meat, have you found that there will be added to a thing, called ascorbic acid, it refers to vitamin C, many places will also write to add is D sodium ascorbate, this substance also has the effect of vitamin C, because adding such substances will not have an impact on the taste of food, when we buy this type of food, go to see if there is any addition in the instructions, this ascorbic acid.
If I say that I don't like to eat vegetables and fruits, what should I do? Then go buy a little vitamin C, it's cheap, a few bucks to solve the problem. In this case, when eating some sausages, various brine flavors and pickles, it will effectively prevent carcinogens produced by nitrites.
Finally, let's talk about it, this kind of food is not recommended for everyone to eat a lot of long-term, such as eating two sausages a day, I ate the amount of a year, like this similar habit, it is indeed not good for our body, so occasionally eat no problem, it is not recommended to use a large number of long-term. So write here today, if you have questions you want to hear, you can leave a message below, more health knowledge please pay attention to me.