Is eating broken rice with pork skin harmful to your health?

Abroad, pork rind is not used as food directly but only for making jelly, as an additive, or for tanning in the leather industry.

Pork rind belongs to the group of proteins containing many connective tissue components (gelatin and collagen), which are also very nutritious. Connective tissue is essential for the body's structure – it acts like cement to bind cells together into strong body tissues.

All tissues, from skin, hair, flesh, bones, and connective tissue, need this collagen to bind them together. However, the protein in pork rind is difficult to digest, so it should not be consumed in large quantities.

In the past, pig butchers would boil water to remove pig hair. But nowadays, slaughterhouses often shave the hair off while the pig is still alive. The hair remains attached to the skin and is very stiff. When ingested, it can pierce the mucous membrane (where digestive enzymes are secreted) in the small intestine and stomach, potentially causing damage to the intestinal and stomach lining.

Therefore, many housewives often discard the pork skin and only use it to prepare dishes such as broken rice with pork skin or to cook jellied meat, spring rolls with pork skin, etc., but they must choose pork skin that has been cleaned of hair.

Many vendors have used toxic chemicals to bleach pork skin for making spring rolls, posing a health risk to consumers. Therefore, only eat pork skin that has been thoroughly cleaned of hair, and avoid buying spring rolls made with pork skin from unknown sources.

According to Alobacsi.vn