Text/Editor: Nian Chu
Another year is approaching the Spring Festival, and many people have put buying New Year's goods on the agenda.
The whole family has worked hard all year, and it is time to treat yourself to something good.
However, there are great hidden dangers in the New Year's goods on the market, and if you don't do it well, you will "spend money to buy a disease".
There are such five kinds of food, which are indispensable for every household during the New Year.
But their quality is uneven, and insiders call for not buying indiscriminately!
So, what exactly are these worrying New Year's delicacies?
01 Meat: Ground meat
The indispensable food for the Chinese New Year in the north is dumplings.
In some places, it is even customary to eat for days on end.
For this reason, every household has to buy a large amount of pork in advance to make dumpling filling.
This has allowed some unscrupulous merchants to find an opportunity to take advantage of it.
You know, not every household has a meat grinder.
After buying pork, you have to go back and chop the stuffing yourself, which is very troublesome.
Especially this year, there is no holiday on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the time for making dumplings is even tighter.
Therefore, many people will try to save trouble and buy ground meat stuffing to go back to wrap.
Some opportunistic merchants will make a fuss about the meat filling.
The meat filling seems to be fine, but in fact, most of it is made of leftovers.
This is a big factor why minced meat is cheaper.
I don't know if you've ever heard of lymphatic meat.
It was some unremoved meat, in the form of small raised lumps, which looked disgusting.
What's more, the consumption of lymphatic meat can bring great harm to the body.
If you buy normal pieces of meat, you can also judge the quality of the meat from its appearance.
And it is difficult to see the quality of the meat after the ground meat is already ground.
Whether it is mixed with lymphatic meat or not, it is completely impossible to see out.
In addition to the quality of the meat, the process of grinding meat is also very worrying.
Is there a proper disinfection process for meat grinding tools, and are the knives used contaminated?
All processes take place out of your sight, and security is a concern.
Therefore, many insiders will not buy ground meat.
No matter how hard you try, try to eat healthy and safe food.
Otherwise, the whole family will go to the hospital for the Chinese New Year, do you say it's bad or not?
02Vacuum-packed delicatessen: additives hit hard
In addition to ground meat, vacuum-packed cooked food is also a "hard-hit area" with great health risks.
In fact, to put it bluntly, cooked food that can be vacuum-packed and heated is the "pre-made dishes" that have caused a lot of controversy this year.
You can think about it, normal cooked food will spoil after a day or two.
Even if it is vacuumed and stored at low temperature, it will only be a week or two at most.
But these vacuum-packed cooked foods sold in supermarkets can last for twenty or thirty days or even longer.
How many additives and preservatives are there, you can imagine.
Moreover, the taste of these things really does not dare to compliment.
The colorful packaging and the dozen lights in the store look mouth-watering.
But when you taste it at home, you'll find that it's not like that at all.
When you eat it in your mouth, it is either salty or sweet, and no matter what the taste is, it is very strong.
After eating, my mouth was even more uncomfortable, and I couldn't stop my thirst by drinking water all the time.
These are all physiological reactions caused by many additives in the dish.
However, merchants have seized the psychology of customers who are greedy for cheap and convenient, and have launched a lot of "prefabricated dishes".
Some restaurants even made a "Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner Package" gift box, and a large table of various dishes are contracted for you.
In this regard, everyone must keep their eyes open and try not to buy vacuum-packed cooked food.
During the Chinese New Year, everyone gets together just to eat a "taste of home".
Now the living standards of the common people have generally improved, and there is no shortage of good food.
Therefore, even if you can't make it to the level of a chef, there is no need to spend money on vacuum-packed cooked food.
When friends and family get together, even if it is an ordinary home-cooked meal, they can eat the taste of happiness.
03 Dried fruits: spoiled, over-processed
The two mentioned above are hard dishes, and snacks such as dried fruits cannot be ignored during the New Year.
In everyday life, dried fruits such as melon seeds are an indispensable pastime.
Nowadays, there are many kinds of dried fruits on the market, but do you know the health risks?
There are two types of dried fruits that must not be bought, the first is spoiled dried fruits.
Some people say that bagged dried fruits cannot be picked freely, and it is easy to buy spoiled ones.
But in fact, the quality of the dried fruit in bulk is also worrying.
Loose dried fruits often do not have a clear production date and transportation route, and there are many bad fruits mixed in them.
If you don't carefully choose and buy spoiled dried fruits, it will bring great harm to the body.
Aflatoxins will be produced after mildew in dried fruits, which will be poisoned and damage organs such as the liver if eaten too much.
But the current merchants are too cunning, and can treat the appearance of dried fruits very clean through a series of methods, and there is no problem at all.
Only when you peel it off or even eat a bitter taste will you find that it has long since deteriorated.
In addition to spoiled dried fruits, overly processed dried fruits should also be purchased with caution.
Once upon a time, melon seeds were only raw and ripe, and at most there was a five-spiced one.
But now on the market, there are several flavors of melon seeds alone, caramel, matcha, plum and so on.
But in fact, these over-processed dried fruits are not good for the body.
In order to create a variety of flavors, manufacturers must carry out complex secondary processing.
Some of the dried fruits of poor quality will be used to make other flavors.
In this way, the additives cover the spoiled smell of the dried fruit, resulting in a new taste.
Although dried fruits are prone to quality problems, they are not impossible to buy.
It's just that you must choose carefully when you buy it, and don't buy bad dried fruits that have gone bad.
As for the new flavors that are overly processed, try to eat as little as possible.
04 Fruit: The surface is covered with inferior wax
If you eat too much fish and meat during the Chinese New Year, fruits will become the best choice to relieve your greasy.
But in fact, there is also a big way to choose the right fruit.
If you don't pay attention to the shoddy fruit, you will have to go to the hospital after eating.
Because of the high demand for entertaining relatives during the Chinese New Year, many people must be buying fruit in boxes.
As everyone knows, this shopping habit is very bad, and the probability of buying defective products is very high.
Often, only the top layer of a whole box is good, and the quality of the fruit below will be very poor!
Some netizens have shared similar experiences.
He bought a whole bag of apples, and from the looks of it, each one was good.
But after opening it, I found that the apple had been carefully placed by the merchant.
They can make sure that the side that leaks on the outside is good and the side that can be hidden is bad.
As a result, when the whole bag was taken out, there was not a single fruit intact and edible.
It is enough to see that merchants are really painstaking in order to harm consumers!
In addition to not buying whole boxes of fruits, waxed fruits should also be purchased with caution.
Presumably everyone knows, in order to ensure that there is no deterioration and no breakage during transportation, the fruits on the market today are basically waxed.
The more shiny the fruit looks in the light, the more it is a waxed product.
In fact, the use of artificial edible wax within a reasonable range will not cause great harm to the human body.
Wash carefully with warm salt water or peel before serving.
But the bad thing is that some businesses will use cheaper industrial wax in order to reduce costs.
Such waxes often contain metallic elements that are harmful to human health.
Even if you peel it and eat it, there is a good chance that harmful elements will have penetrated into the pulp.
Of course, there is an easy way to tell if a fruit is edible or industrial wax.
When picking fruits, you can gently wipe them with a paper towel, and if there is a color on the paper towel, it may be industrial wax.
If you come across this fruit, no matter how fresh, beautiful or fragrant it is, you must not buy it!
05Seafood: Frozen for a long time after processing
Due to the high demand for freshness and the difficulty of transportation, seafood has always been an expensive food.
Only during the New Year's holidays, ordinary families will buy more to enjoy themselves.
However, seafood is still good to eat, and long-term frozen seafood can cause poisoning.
The most common seafood today is undoubtedly shrimp.
In the fresh food area of major supermarkets and vegetable markets, there will be live shrimp and live fish.
Seafood products are easy to spoil, and if economic conditions allow, try to buy them alive and eat them now.
However, most families with limited conditions will still buy frozen shrimp.
You know, the frozen seafood camp structure has been destroyed, and the nutritional value is far less than that of fresh seafood.
In addition, the freezing process is also prone to contamination and the growth of some bacteria.
And these microorganisms often do not freeze to death, so be sure to thaw and cook before eating.
In addition, try not to buy processed seafood when buying frozen seafood.
For example, the shrimp is intact and you can tell if it has deteriorated and rotted.
The shelled shrimp are likely to be inferior shrimp whose skin has been broken and then entered the market.
In addition to shrimp, all kinds of fish should not be bought with peel and cut into pieces.
Who knows if it was cut from a bad fish before processing.
If you must choose frozen seafood, you must also choose a regular manufacturer.
06 Conclusion:
In fact, the current supermarket does not have a holiday during the Spring Festival.
You don't need to stock up at all, and you can buy a lot of food that has not been carefully selected.
Instead, it is necessary to strictly control the quality of food, so that less is fine, and buy it at any time when you need it.
Only in this way can we spend a good year healthy and happy without wasting it!
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