Health notes you should know when eating eggplant

In addition to its nutritional and health benefits, eggplant is also a food that can easily cause poisoning if eaten in large quantities.

Eating too much eggplant can easily cause poisoning.

Eggplants contain a substance called solanine, which has antioxidant and cancer-inhibiting effects. However, eggplants have a strong stimulating effect on the respiratory center and anesthetic effects, so they can cause poisoning if eaten in excess.

Solanine is not significantly soluble in water, so stir-frying, boiling and other methods cannot destroy this substance. But a little trick to help you neutralize it is to add a little vinegar to the eggplant processing, vinegar will play a role in helping to promote the decomposition of solanine.

The best way to prevent solanine poisoning is to control your intake. Eating about 250 grams of eggplant per meal will not cause any discomfort, so you do not need to worry too much.

In addition to its nutritional and health benefits, eggplant is also a food that can easily cause poisoning if eaten in large quantities. Illustrative photo

Notes when preparing dishes with eggplant

Eggplants can be combined with many different types of meat and vegetables to create a delicious dish. You can cook them in many ways such as frying, grilling, steaming, boiling or making salads to change the taste for the whole family. However, do not remove the eggplant skin, because the skin contains vitamin B and vitamin C. In the process of metabolism, vitamin C is necessary to support vitamin B.

Eggplants are nutritious, but high cooking temperatures can cause many nutrients to be lost. In fact, frying can destroy up to 50% of the vitamins in eggplants.

Of all the ways to eat eggplant salad, the most intact nutritional content of eggplant is preserved. Remember to add a little vinegar when mixing as the little tip mentioned above to make the dish delicious and avoid solanine poisoning.

People who should not eat eggplant

- Eggplant is a cold food, if eaten too much can make the stomach feel uncomfortable, causing severe diarrhea. Therefore, people with stomach problems should especially not eat it.

- Because eggplant is cold, people who are weak or in poor health should not eat a lot or often.

- People with kidney disease should also not eat eggplant because eggplant contains high levels of oxalate, which is an acid found in plants that, if eaten too much, can easily cause kidney stones.

- Eggplant is low in calories so the elderly and obese can eat it. It is cold in nature so it is also friendly to people with heat rash and boils. However, people with asthma, stomach disease, and spleen should not eat it.

- Another extremely important information has been recorded by Indian scientists. That is, eggplant has the potential to cause allergies and outbreaks in some hypersensitive people. Specifically, the phenomenon of itching on the skin and mouth after eating eggplant.

The reason is determined that eggplant contains a protein and some metabolites that act as a high-dose histamine. However, you do not need to worry too much because this side effect will be prevented if you pay attention to cooking eggplant before eating.

According to AloBacsi.vn