Scary revelations about the harmful effects of sausages on health

Feeding children too many sausages and processed meats can lead to excess fat and many dangerous diseases such as obesity, heart disease, blood pressure, and cancer.

Sausages and other red meat dishes are very popular, but according to experts, eating a sausage every day is extremely harmful for children. Processed meats such as sausages can increase the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and various types of cancer...

Meanwhile, in Vietnam, many parents still consider sausages a convenient snack. Because many children love them and do not need to be forced to eat them, parents often use them as a snack, a quick meal, or an extra meal in addition to a main meal.

According to experts, sausages are made from fatty meat, rich in energy but low in nutrition, not beneficial to people's health in general and the development of children in particular. Sausages contain chemicals, additives, preservatives, forcing the liver to work harder to detoxify the body. Eating a lot of sausages (as well as processed foods) will lead to the following conditions: Excess energy leading to obesity, susceptible to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer... or prolonged digestive disorders.

The sausage ingredients include natural meat, animal fats, skin and poultry meat. The rest is an emulsion of proteins and fats, protein stabilizers as well as vegetable oils and water and partly starch and flour.

In addition, many sausages sold on the street have unclear origins and are made from spoiled meat in private establishments that lack hygiene and food safety.

Reasons to stop eating sausages:

Contains a lot of fat

Many people like to eat sausages in their daily meals to supplement protein, but in fact, the protein content in sausages is very low, but contains a lot of saturated fat. Every 100g of sausage is equivalent to 290 calories and contains up to 26g of fat. This amount of fat accounts for 40% of the body's fat needs in 1 day. If you eat a lot of sausages, you will have excess fat and cause many dangerous diseases such as obesity, heart disease, blood pressure...

Contains a lot of salt

A sausage contains up to 600mg of sodium, which is almost half of the recommended daily salt intake. Too much salt combined with an imbalance between sodium and potassium can cause harmful effects on health such as: high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, excess salt leading to edema, water retention in the body.

Carcinogenic

Sausages also contain nitrate salt used to preserve food. When this salt enters the body, under the effect of digestive enzymes, it participates in oxidation-reduction reactions in the stomach and intestines, producing nitrite. Nitrite has the effect of oxidizing hemoglobin of red blood cells, turning hemoglobin into methemoglobin, affecting respiratory function, anemia, cancer, and even causing death to users. In children, if they eat a lot of foods containing nitrate, they are susceptible to poisoning, leading to paleness, weakness, and difficulty breathing.

Made from industrial meat

To reduce product costs, manufacturers must use industrially raised animals, even dirty meat to make sausages. This type of meat contains antibiotics, growth hormones, chemicals that can cause serious health consequences such as antibiotic resistance, early puberty...

How to make delicious sausages at home

To limit additives and potential risks that are harmful to children's health, mothers can make their own sausages for their children in the following way:

Ingredient:500g pork butt (with fat); 100g small intestine (choose thin and pink-white intestine);

Spices include:2 tablespoons seasoning powder, 1 tablespoon fish sauce, 1 tablespoon sugar, 3 cloves garlic, 3 chopped shallots, 2 tablespoons MSG, half a teaspoon five-spice powder, 1 tablespoon wine, 3 tablespoons turmeric.

- Wash the meat, put it in the blender until smooth like sausage. Then mix the above spices well and let it marinate for about 15 minutes.

- Clean the intestines by rubbing them with white wine and salt to remove the smell. Turn them inside out, use a spoon to scrape off the powder, then turn them back over as before.

- Stuff the meat into the intestines (you can use a funnel to help the meat go in faster). After stuffing, tie the intestines into sections of about 7cm and do not stuff too tightly.

- Use a steamer to steam the sausage for about 30 minutes then turn off the stove. When steaming, keep the heat high and use a sharp toothpick to poke small holes in the sausage so that steam can escape and it won't burst.

- Heat cooking oil, fry sausage until golden brown. Keep the heat low, roll the sausage evenly on all sides until golden brown.

Note:You can make a large quantity of sausages at once. If you don't finish them all, put the steamed sausages in the freezer and eat them gradually within about 30 days./.

According to giadinh.net