Pickled cucumbers and eggplants: Eat properly to avoid cancer

Pickled melons and eggplants are foods that stimulate digestion, but if not prepared and eaten properly they can pose a risk of cancer.

Pickled melons and eggplants can cause cancer.

Pickled vegetables are eaten the same day they are prepared. However, pickled vegetables often contain many types of disease-causing bacteria and parasites. In the pickling environment, bacteria live for about 9 hours. Parasites live for no more than 10 days.

Therefore, if pickled within a certain period of time, it will be hygienic and safe. However, if pickled quickly, harmful bacteria that have not yet died will be the cause of diseases such as digestive diseases (diarrhea, cholera, typhoid).

There is also a risk of cancer when the ingredients used to pickle vegetables are often fertilized with urea fertilizer - which still contains a significant amount of nitric. When nitric is ingested into the body and meets favorable conditions such as the participation of meat, fish, crab, fish sauce, etc., it will form nitrosamine compounds, which many studies have concluded are substances that can cause cancer.

How to eat pickles safely?

Good melons are usually yellow, sour, crunchy and have a nice smell. Avoid buying melons that are dull in color or have a strange smell.

To have such pickles, it is best to buy clean ingredients and pickle them at home to ensure food hygiene. Before pickling, wash the ingredients and tools thoroughly.

It is necessary to create a good fermentation environment and maintain hygiene during the pickling process to avoid the invasion of harmful bacteria.

To limit the formation of nitrosamine in the body, avoid eating pickled vegetables, or vegetables that have not been pickled long enough, are not yet yellow, or are still spicy.

Absolutely do not eat pickles that are slimy, black, or moldy.

Even with hygienic pickles, you should not eat too much and too often, and do not eat on an empty stomach... because the habit of eating salty foods will harm the kidneys, heart and easily lead to high blood pressure. You should eat them with anti-cancer foods such as green vegetables, fruits...

According to Afamily, people with heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, liver disease, stomach ulcers, etc. should not eat pickled vegetables because they contain a lot of salt and high digestive enzymes, which can cause adverse health complications.

According to Alobacsi.vn