Whether it is the south or the north, or adults and children, there is an indispensable food in breakfast, that is, soy milk. Especially with the popularity of soymilk machines, many people like to make their own soymilk at home. If you also like to drink soy milk, or have the habit of making homemade soy milk, then the following content must be read carefully.
This news does look a bit scary, so much so that when I first saw it, I thought it was a rumor compiled by some self-media, until I saw that authoritative official media such as People's Daily and Hangzhou Daily reported on it, and I dared to believe that someone actually died because of soy milk.
This happened in Hangzhou, where a mother cooked soy milk for her child as usual and asked her child to take it to school.
After drinking soy milk at school, the child had symptoms such as difficulty breathing, nervous disorders, and swelling of the stomach.
At first, no one took it seriously, until the children vomited and went into shock, and the teachers panicked. By the time the child was taken to the hospital, it was too late, and the child had already lost signs of life.
Maybe everyone is also curious about why drinking soy milk has such serious consequences, which we will talk about later. When I read this news, I originally thought it was a case, until I searched the Internet and found that there are many similar cases.
A 6-year-old girl developed symptoms such as gastric mucosal burning and vomiting after drinking a glass of soy milk. Soon after, his condition deteriorated rapidly, and he died after being taken to the hospital, and it took only two hours from the onset of symptoms to his death.
Why do you get poisoned after drinking soy milk?
In fact, the soy milk itself is "innocent", and the real culprit is the soy milk that has not been thoroughly cooked. The above cases are basically caused by the fact that the soy milk is not thoroughly cooked.
In undercooked soy milk, especially raw soybeans, cytolectins, saponins, and trypsin inhibitors are present.
As a kind of sugar body, saponin is irritating to the gastrointestinal membrane, and can also destroy the red blood cells in the blood, ingestion of a certain amount will cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms, and in severe cases, it will cause dehydration and electrolyte disorders, and the rescue will even be life-threatening if it is not rescued in time.
Trypsin inhibitors have the ability to reduce the activity of gastric juice to digest proteins, resulting in a decrease in the body's ability to digest and absorb proteins, and causing symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea.
It should be noted that the incubation period after saponin poisoning is very short, generally only half an hour before the onset occurs. In addition, the symptoms of early poisoning are very similar to ordinary diarrhea, which also makes many people mistakenly think that this is "eating bad stomach", so they miss the best time for diagnosis and treatment.
In addition, these substances have high heat resistance and need to be heated to more than 100°C to be completely destroyed. This is also the reason why soy milk that has not been thoroughly cooked is poisoned after drinking.
Soy milk "false boiling" needs to be paid attention to!
At this time, some people may ask, why do you drink soy milk when it is not boiled? This is because boiling soy milk is very confusing, and it will make people mistakenly think that the soy milk has boiled.
And many people will judge whether the soy milk is cooked according to the standard of "water boiling", and feel that the soybean milk is boiling when it bubbles, but in fact the soy milk is not cooked at all, this phenomenon is called "false boiling".
When the soy milk is heated to 80-90 °C, the saponin will be heated and expand, and a large amount of foam will be produced, at this time, many people will mistakenly think that the soy milk has boiled and stop heating, so the soy milk will contain a lot of saponin.
At this time, if you drink it directly, the consequences can be imagined. Therefore, after the soy milk looks boiling, it should be boiled over low heat for more than 10 minutes until the foam is completely gone, so that the soy milk is the safest to drink.
These common "poisonous" foods also need to be watched out!
(1) Fungus that has been soaked for a long time
The fungus should not be soaked for too long, let alone two or three days. This is because the fungus that has been soaked for a long time may produce rice fermented acid, a toxin produced by the fermented rice flour subsp. of the genus Pseudomonas coconut. For this kind of poisoning, there is no specific antidote, and the fatality rate is as high as 40%.
When we usually soak the fungus, the time should be controlled within 4 hours, and the water temperature should not be too high, and it is best to control it at about 30 °C.
(2) Rotten ginger
If the ginger is rotten, don't eat it again, even if you cut off the rotten parts. Because the safrole content increases greatly after ginger decays, which is a toxic substance, too much intake is harmful to the liver.
(3) Sprouted sweet potatoes
The reason why sprouted sweet potatoes are not recommended is because sprouting sweet potatoes often means that the environment in which they are grown is also suitable for mold. If the sweet potato is moldy, the mold may produce some toxins during the growth and reproduction process, such as sweet potato ketone.
(4) Green tomatoes
If you've ever eaten green tomatoes, you've probably felt that these tomatoes are bitter in one bite, and the source of the bitterness here is solanine.
After a large intake of solanine, symptoms such as nausea, diarrhea, and numbness in the mouth and tongue may occur, and in severe cases, symptoms such as dyspnea and coma may occur.
(5) Sprouted potatoes
Many people know that sprouted potatoes cannot be eaten, but few people know the reason why they can't be eaten. This leads to some people having a fluke mentality, and as a result, they are poisoned after eating.
The inability to eat sprouted potatoes is also related to solanine, especially after the potatoes are sprouted, their solanine content will increase. It should be noted that sprouted potatoes cannot be eaten even if they are cooked, because solanine cannot tolerate cold and heat, because it is difficult to destroy harmful substances by ordinary cooking methods.
All in all, our lives are inseparable from food, but sometimes we can cause tragedies because of some small negligence, and these tragedies themselves can be avoided, which is the greatest regret. So, after reading today's content, be sure to forward this knowledge to your family to avoid tragedy.