Foods that can easily cause poisoning on sunny days

In the hot summer, people need to be careful with the following foods that can easily cause poisoning.

Not pickled cucumbers and eggplants

During the summer, melons and eggplants are often an indispensable dish in every meal of many families. However, if you eat melons and eggplants that are not properly pickled, it will be very dangerous. According to information in the Family and Society newspaper, in the first few days of pickling melons and eggplants, microorganisms will convert nitrates in the ingredients into nitric, causing the nitric content to increase, the pH gradually decreases, meaning the acidity gradually increases.

Eating melons at this stage has a spicy, pungent, slightly bitter taste because it has not met the requirements. This type of melon contains a lot of nitrate, eating it is very harmful to the body.

Grilled clams

Dishes made from clams such as sour clam soup, steamed clams, clam porridge, grilled clams... are especially popular in the summer. Experts say that this is a nutritious food, clam meat contains protein, glucid, lipid and many vitamins.

However, many studies have shown that grilled clams are a delicious dish but do not meet food hygiene and safety standards. Clams often live in estuaries and coastal areas and are susceptible to bacterial and toxic contamination due to polluted water sources. Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria is the main culprit causing poisoning when clams are not processed carefully.

Grilled clams can easily cause food poisoning (Illustration photo)

Jellyfish dishes

Jellyfish is commonly used by people to prepare a number of dishes such as salad, jellyfish salad, hot pot, soup, jellyfish noodles... When eating unsafe jellyfish, toxins will enter the body, mildly causing skin allergies, more seriously leading to headaches, chest pain, sweating, difficulty breathing, nausea.

The Food Safety Department (Ministry of Health) recommends that people do not use fresh (unprocessed) jellyfish as food, make raw salads, and especially do not use jellyfish (including processed jellyfish) as food for children. The process of processing fresh jellyfish must be soaked 3 times in salt water and alum, when the jellyfish meat turns light red or light yellow, it can be used for processing as food.

Cucumber

For many people, cucumbers are delicious as a side salad, but you should limit this vegetable because it is also a food that can easily cause poisoning in the summer.

This type "contains" many types of stimulants and new pesticides. Melon growers often spray pesticides continuously, even spraying one day and harvesting the next day to sell at the market. If you eat cucumbers that are not washed thoroughly or peeled, you can easily get poisoned with symptoms such as vomiting, dizziness, and headaches. In fact, some people still get poisoned even though they wash them with various solutions.

Price without roots

During the bean sprout making process, the grower may have added too much medicine to make the bean sprouts grow and develop quickly but without roots. This growth medicine often contains harmful substances such as carcinogens and mutagens, according to Dan Tri.

Green tomatoes

Unripe green tomatoes contain a toxic substance - solanine. After eating, symptoms such as nausea and vomiting may appear...

Cabbage, fresh ginger are bruised

Bruised cabbage contains nitrite salts, which prevent red blood cells from carrying oxygen, causing us to lack oxygen and become poisoned (mildly, causing headaches, irregular heartbeat, vomiting, and purple lips; severely causing mental instability, convulsions, and difficulty breathing. If emergency treatment is not given in time, it will be life-threatening. Fresh ginger, after being crushed, will produce a very toxic substance called safrole. Even eating just a little bit will cause liver cells to become poisoned and change their state.

According to Health and Life