"Stop eating ginger, eating too much ginger will cause cancer!"
Aunt Ma saw a ginger carcinogenic article today, panicked and threw away the ginger at home, the article said so, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that safrole can cause liver cancer, using safrole to feed mice for half a year to 2 years to have liver cancer, and ginger has safrole!
Everyone talks about cancer discoloration, Aunt Ma is afraid of the word cancer in her heart, usually she likes to use ginger, a big bag to buy, sometimes ginger is rotten and not willing to throw it, this time she threw it all away.
Ginger is one of the most used condiments, in Chinese medicine, ginger is even a good chinese medicine, but does it really cause cancer?
First, eating too much ginger will cause cancer? Experiments tell you the truth
Is there safrole in ginger? Wu Kunming, a lecturer in the Basic Teaching Department of Beijing Agricultural College, once conducted an experiment in which Professor Wu took good ginger and rotten ginger of the same weight, put them into different Erlenmeyer flasks, and then added an equal amount of ethanol solution (safrin is soluble in ethanol solution).
After a day of soaking, the two solutions were poured out and a significant difference in the color of the solution was found. Among them, the solution of soaking good ginger did not change much, and the soaking solution of rotten ginger showed a significant yellow color, which was caused by more safrole in rotten ginger.
Ni Zheng, chief physician of the Department of Treatment of Diseases in Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, pointed out that there are no studies or reports in China that eating ginger can cause cancer, and normal consumption of fresh ginger does not pose a threat to health. Daily consumption should avoid eating rotten ginger, long-term saving and use of rotten ginger, may increase the risk of cancer.
In addition to ginger will cause cancer, it also has many rumors, such as "late eat ginger, arsenic cream", is this statement true?
Second, the same rumor is also: eat ginger at night, arsenic cream?
"Eat ginger late, arsenic cream" has no scientific basis, the reason for this rumor, it is likely because ginger contains gingerol. Whether eaten in the morning or at night, in fact, it does not affect the nutrient absorption of ginger, but the substance can bring certain stimulation to the heart and blood vessels, resulting in rapid heartbeat and vasodilation. Eating too much ginger before bedtime can cause hyperactivity and interfere with normal sleep, but it is not toxic.
Although eating ginger does not have to "pick" the time, many people still have many doubts about ginger, is ginger really so good? Follow Xiao Ai to understand this problem.
Third, is there a benefit or a disadvantage to eating ginger?
From the perspective of nutrient composition analysis, ginger is rich in nutrients. But this does not mean that the more you eat, the better, everything is too much, and a large intake of ginger will also pose a threat to health.
1. Vitamins and minerals are rich in trace elements
Ginger is rich in B vitamins, iron, zinc, manganese and other elements, which have great health benefits. However, ginger is generally used as a condiment, and each consumption is a small amount, and the intake of nutrients is relatively limited.
2, eat too much is also harmful
Ingesting a large amount of ginger will bring adverse irritation to the stomach, which can easily lead to stomach pain, nausea and other uncomfortable symptoms.
So, how do we eat ginger properly in our lives? Especially in the cold winter, eating ginger can warm up the whole person.
Fourth, how to eat ginger in winter?
Li Yangfan, deputy chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Beijing Friendship Hospital, said that in the cold winter, using these three ways to eat ginger can play a good health effect.
1. Ginger black tea
Ginger black tea has a certain effect of conditioning the stomach and intestines, there are two main ways to make: take an appropriate amount of black tea and ginger added to boiling water to brew, cover and simmer for a few minutes to drink; you can also squeeze ginger juice into black tea.
2. Ginger porridge
Ginger porridge is especially suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and thin stool, when the porridge is cooked to almost cook, add an appropriate amount of ginger slices together to cook until the rice is cooked.
3. Angelica ginger lamb broth
Angelica ginger mutton soup from the "Golden Essentials", take angelica, ginger, mutton stew together, the medicinal diet has a good blood tonic, blood warm yang effect, especially suitable for winter supplementation.
Regarding ginger, this food can be eaten with confidence in daily life, provided that it is not excessive or rotten ginger. Don't listen to rumors and bring some unnecessary impact to your life.
Resources:
[1] "[Friendship Science Popularization]How to eat and use ginger in winter? 》.2021.11.24
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