Eat a lot of salted and salted cucumbers easy to get cancer?

Stir-fried pickle with egg (Photo: sinhthuc)

Pickled melon, salt and salt are traditional dishes of our people for thousands of years. During the meal of the Vietnamese people, if there is a plate of melon or salt, it is more attractive.

Especially in holidays, Tet often have many dishes with high fat and protein, almost always have pickles and salt onions. Pickles have the effect of stimulating digestion thanks to lactic enzymes, eating more deliciously, better for the body. However, if someone has a habit of eating spicy pickles, especially melons, be alert.

Normally in vegetables, nitrite content is only in stain, but when salted, the content of nitrite increases in the first few days due to the reduction of nitrate in vegetable into nitrite, but nitrite decreases and disappears when the melon is sour gold.

When melon is tight, the nitrite content increases. When nitrite enters the body, it will work with secondary amines in some foods such as shrimp, fish . especially shrimp paste will form nitrozamin compound (nitrozamin capable of causing cancer in experimental animals) .

According to Vietnam Journal of Family Physicians / Vietnam Medical Information

Eat pickles with poisoning?

Many studies have shown that some types of vegetables, green vegetables, spinach . contain a lot of trace amounts of Acid Nitrite and Nitrite. If these vegetables have been cooked but left for a long time or the salt for a short time is not enough, the nitrite acid salt in vegetables under the effect of pure Nitrite bacteria will cause poisoning. users when eating a lot. Nitrite causes jaw tissue jaundice, smooth blood vessels leading to a drop in blood pressure. Dose of Nitrite can lead to poisoning of 0.3 to 0.5g. 3g can lead to death.

Patients with poisoning develop illness after eating from half an hour to 3 hours, with fast people only 10 to 15 minutes. Patients feel dizzy, lightheaded, tired, upset, heartburn, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nails and skin all over bruised, even respiratory failure, coma if severe poisoning.

When there are manifestations, if mild poisoning, give the patient vomiting food and drink plenty of water. But if severe, it is necessary to send patients to medical facilities for bowel washing, water treatment and prompt treatment. People should not eat pickled vegetables when ripe or cooked vegetables overnight.

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