There are many elderly people in life who have developed the good habit of thrift and thrift, so they will often save what they can't eat for the next meal.
Although this habit avoids food waste, if you eat overnight food regularly, it is easy to cause damage to your health, and in severe cases, it will even induce some diseases, especially if it will cause a lot of pressure on the liver.
What overnight foods are likely to cause liver damage?
1. Boil water overnight
Most families in life do not have the conditions to drink mineral water, so they can only drink tap water after boiling, under normal circumstances, after tap water is boiled, it can reduce the nitrite and chloride content in the water, so it is also very suitable for daily drinking.
However, if you do not drink the boiling water after boiling, and then inject the cold water again and then boil it repeatedly, and drink it after a night, it may cause great harm to the liver.
The reason is that the nitrite content in overnight boiling water will increase, and this substance is a high carcinogen, and long-term drinking overnight boiled water will not only increase the risk of cancer;
It may also lead to liver cell damage, so for the sake of health, it is recommended that everyone drink as little overnight boiled water as possible, otherwise it is planting a time bomb for the body.
2. Overnight tea
Drinking tea is originally a kind of behavior with a health effect, especially for the middle-aged and elderly, if you can usually replace water with tea, it will not only enhance your physique, but also enhance your body's metabolic capacity.
But many people have a bad habit when drinking tea, then they like to drink overnight tea, and they don't know that the tea polyphenols in tea are exposed to the air for a long time;
Then a lot of oxidizing substances will be produced, which are very harmful to the kidneys, liver and stomach.
3. Overnight white fungus
White fungus belongs to a kind of drinking high value of fungal food, female friends if they usually eat silver ear lotus seed soup, or directly with white fungus, jujube, brown sugar boiled water to drink, not only has the effect of beauty and beauty, but also can effectively alleviate menstrual discomfort.
However, once the white fungus is placed for too long, it will not only lead to a large loss of nutrients, but also produce some harmful substances, especially long-term consumption of overnight white fungus, which may also increase the risk of cancer.
Because overnight white fungus is easily produced under the decomposition of bacteria, a large amount of nitrite is easily produced, which not only causes damage to liver cells, but also affects hematopoietic function.
Therefore, when eating white fungus or fungus, we must eat as much as possible not overnight, otherwise it may cause great harm to physical health.
4. Overnight meals
From an economic point of view, many families will put endless meals in the refrigerator and then continue to eat them the next day as long as they are hot.
This can not only save a lot of money, but also will not have food waste, but regularly eating overnight meals is very harmful to the liver;
Because overnight meals are easily contaminated with aspergillus flavus, a toxin called aflatoxin is produced.
This toxin can cause severe damage to the liver, if the intake is high, it will even induce liver cancer disease, in addition to the overnight meal will also contain nitrites, not only will lead to food poisoning but also increase the risk of cancer.
The above introduces the four major hazards of eating overnight food frequently, although from a health and medical point of view, you should not often eat overnight food, but this situation will lead to a lot of food waste, so many people are particularly difficult to choose.
In fact, there are many types of overnight food, not that all overnight food can not be eaten, as long as it is not contaminated with bacteria or spoiled, then you can continue to eat.