Scary revelations about the harmful effects of sausages on health

Feeding children a lot of sausages and processed meats is the cause of 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 cancers...

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 snack, or an extra meal in addition to the 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 ingredients of sausages 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:

High in 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, cardiovascular 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 action of digestive enzymes, it participates in oxidation-reduction reactions in the stomach and intestines, producing nitrite. Nitrite has the effect of oxidizing hemoglobin in red blood cells, turning hemoglobin into methemoglobin, affecting respiratory function, causing anemia, cancer, and even death for users. In children, eating a lot of foods containing nitrate can easily lead 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 making the body resistant to antibiotics, 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 pinkish 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 and blend it until smooth like ham. Then mix the above spices well and let it sit for about 15 minutes to absorb.

- 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 pieces about 7cm long and do not stuff too tightly.

- Use a steamer to steam the sausage for about 30 minutes then turn off the stove. When steaming, use high heat 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 all sides until the sausage is 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