6 cooking habits that can easily cause cancer
(Baonghean.vn) - Besides worrying about buying "dirty" food, incorrect cooking habits also significantly affect the health of family members... If you still keep the following cooking habits, then give them up today, because they can increase the risk of cancer...
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Some people have the habit of frying food in a pan of smoking oil, thinking that hot oil will make the food taste better. However, when cooking oil smokes, it means that the temperature of the oil is over 200 degrees Celsius... High temperatures not only destroy the antioxidant effect of the oil and the nutritional components in the food, but also produce peroxide, a carcinogen. |
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Many people regret not throwing away the processed oil but continue to use it to fry other foods. This is a very serious mistake because oil when processed at high temperatures will produce trans fatty acids and lipid oxidation products, if it continues to be exposed to high temperatures again, it will produce carcinogens… It is best to throw away the processed oil to ensure the health of you and your family. |
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Many people, in order to save time, or because the pot is still clean, do not clean the pot after cooking the previous dish and continue cooking another dish. The pot may look clean, but in fact, there is still grease and leftover food on the surface. This grease and leftover food, if processed at high temperatures, can again produce benzopyrene - a substance that causes cancer. |
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Any dish, if cooked for too long on the stove, or reheated many times before eating, will cause the food to deteriorate - producing carbohydrates that combine with fat to produce carcinogens... Especially cooking vegetables and tubers for a long time, dishes that are simmered for many hours not only break down many vitamins in the food but also increase the content of toxic substances to a higher level. |
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Using the same cutting board to prepare raw and cooked foods and vegetables is a common mistake that many housewives make. In fact, this habit is extremely harmful, because raw foods always contain a lot of bacteria and parasites; even washing the cutting board with dishwashing liquid and letting it dry does not completely clean it. Therefore, when using the same cutting board, cooked foods will be contaminated with bacteria, making it easy to get sick. |
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Many people have the habit of turning off the range hood immediately after cooking, not knowing that there is still a certain amount of exhaust gas that has not been completely sucked out in the kitchen because the machine needs a certain amount of time to reach maximum efficiency. It is the amount of exhaust gas circulating in the house that contributes to cancer... It is best to turn off the range hood 3-5 minutes after cooking to ensure that all the exhaust gas is sucked out. |