During the Chinese New Year, friends and family will meet for dinner. Two nights ago, the restaurant was eating, and I heard some conversations from several people at the next table, and while they were looking at the menu, they were talking about it: the plum dish button meat is too salty, the fried shrimp is fried, the boiled fish is oily and spicy... A few people were still a little unpleasant when ordering food. With the popularization of health knowledge, people's requirements for food are also getting higher and higher, food is not only something that fills the stomach, but also hopes that they are healthy and nutritious.
Sausages and bacon are especially popular dishes during the Spring Festival in Sichuan, Hunan and Guangdong. But this kind of pickled food, high salt and high fat and also contain carcinogens, so how do we eat sausage bacon healthily? Cancer is an important cause of human health, it has been reported that about 60% of cancer patients are digestive system tumors, such as esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer and so on. The three most important carcinogens we know of include nitrosamines, benzopyrene, and aflatoxin.
Pickled foods generally contain a small amount of nitrite, which will form nitrosamines after they are combined with a substance in the human body, which is a strong carcinogen, which is very harmful to the liver, stomach and so on. Therefore, before eating sausage bacon, it is best to boil it in water, nitrite will dissolve in the water, and then pour out the soup.
Benzopyrene is a strong carcinogen of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which is more carcinogenic than aflatoxin and is the culprit that induces lung cancer. In some places, when marinating sausage bacon, the smoking method is used to increase the flavor of the food. But in the process of smoking, benzopyrene is produced. It is recommended that in the process of curing sausage bacon, try not to use smoking to reduce the generation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon carcinogens from the source.
In addition, pickled products are also high-salt and high-fat foods, and eating too much is not particularly friendly to blood pressure, blood lipids, and weight. When we eat sausage bacon, we should control the amount, do not eat too much because it is delicious, and be sure to accompany some vegetables.
The Spring Festival is coming, I hope that readers and friends will eat healthy, eat happily, and spend a happy New Year festival.