A while ago, more than 200 children in a kindergarten in Xi'an had food poisoning! They basically have high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, severe and even coma, blood in the stool. But so far the source has not been found, only that it is Salmonella infection...
Many parents speculate that it may be caused by eating moldy and spoiled vegetables for their children.
Summer is hot and the food does spoil easily! Especially overnight food, fungi, etc., can easily cause food poisoning. Although we all know that rotten food should be thrown away, you must have encountered this situation:
For example, food spoilage is less obvious. Often a little bit of bad is just a little bit of eating, nothing...
But this time please believe me: this "spoiled bitter vegetable", do not eat hard ↓↓↓
This bitter vegetable is more poisonous than arsenic!
In August, our "loofah", "urn" and "gourd melon" were listed.
This kind of stir-frying, stewing soup, and stuffy boiling can all suck the rake melon, but it hides the "poison" after the bitterness!
Urns and loofahs belong to the Cucurbitaceae family. Under special conditions, they produce a class of bitter and highly toxic substances: cucurbitacin.
Cucurbitacin can cause many symptoms of poisoning, such as vomiting and diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding, liver and kidney function damage, hair loss, etc., and even lead to death in severe cases. Every year someone is poisoned by this:
A pot of bitter gourd soup knocks down the family
Studies have shown that the cucurbitacin D contained in toxic bitter urns is more toxic than arsenic!
Half of the oral lethality of mice with cucurbitacin D is as low as 5 mg per kilogram of body weight;
Half of the oral lethal amount of arsenic in mice was only 31.5 mg per kilogram of body weight.
So, if cucurbitaceae vegetables or fruits are too bitter to swallow, don't eat them! For example: cucumbers, melons, watermelons, winter melons, pumpkins, etc.
And don't think that bitter things "clear heat" and "fire relief" are most suitable for summer eating.
Don't be afraid of waste, don't be willing to waste the money that has been lost. The family frowned and wanted to finish eating...
In fact, we can avoid these problems before "frying" or even "before buying":
Try it with a nail scraper before buying it
Or lick a bite of the melon after peeling in the kitchen to see if it's bitter
So in the high temperature weather, how to preserve the ingredients bought in the market, so that they can be fresh and not easy to spoil for a long time?
How to scientifically store ingredients on high temperature days so that the baby will not be infected?
01, perishable vegetable storage
02, meat, eggs and milk storage
03, cold vegetables, overnight dishes storage
Zhejiang Ningbo Food Inspection Institute, has tested 30 home-cooked dishes[1] found:
Stored leftovers, after 1 day, the nitrite content has not changed much from when it first comes out of the pot, so you can eat it with confidence. The nitrite content of leafy vegetables will increase dramatically! Meat and vegetables overnight but all right...
So it's not that overnight dishes can't be eaten, but remember:
1, leftovers are put in the refrigerator while hot, and it is best to leave meat and not left vegetarian! (Leftover vegetarian dishes at room temperature are best eaten within 6 hours, and the slowest meat dishes after refrigeration are 2-3 days to eat)
2. The second meal of the overnight dish must be fully heated (heated at 100 °C for more than 3 minutes)
3, cold dishes must not be leftover, the day must be eaten out!
"Reasonable Purchase + Storage"
After that you may feel foolproof! But in fact, if in the process of doing it, "a knife is cut randomly, a plate is used indiscriminately" may also cause poisoning!
In this way, the non-toxic ingredients of the cut vegetables can also cause poisoning!
Is that how you cook in the kitchen? No matter what the dish is, put it in one piece and cut it, cut the raw meat with a knife to the side, continue to cut the lettuce, and then cut the fruit and even cook it.
As soon as they came and went, the bacteria began to scurry, and the result was...
Therefore, it is best to prepare more than 2 cutting boards at home, use them separately, and clean and dry them in time after use.
Finally, I would like to summarize a poem about oil:
Summer heat and dry heat, food poisoning do not be careless!
Carefully select the ingredients and cut off the poisoned seedlings at the source!
Refrigerator storage should be proper, reduce spoilage and eat well!
Cut raw and cooked ingredients separately to protect your child from now on!
Another point to pay attention to: if the child always appears for no reason on weekdays: abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, you must pay attention to the possibility that it may be caused by food poisoning! It is best to seek medical attention in time to eliminate dangerous situations
Remember to forward to the family group, let the elderly in the family stock up on some dishes, that is, buy and eat.
Resources:
[1] http://py.zjol.com.cn/rdgz/201907/t20190724_10651911.shtml Zhejiang Online, "Overnight Vegetables Are Toxic? Ningbo Food Inspection Institute uses 450 data to tell you the answer"