Eat poisoned banana vinegar?

Concerned with the fact that many fruits including bananas with toxic chemicals, many people choose to buy bananas cooked with incense (incense). Is this choice really safe when on the market most of the chemicals are harmful to health?

Banana sellers confirm absolute safety

Banana is a fruit that contains many healthy micronutrients such as potassium, vitamins, fiber . so many people like it.
There are many methods of traditional banana vinegar such as the use of lamp, incense, lime . However, now because the lamp and lime used for banana vinegar are very inconvenient, unsafe, people move to vinegar. banana with incense . Normally, after cutting each piece off the chamber, dry plastic for 1 day, people put it into jars, or drums. Between jars or barrels leave room to plug incense, then cover tightly. The temperature from incense sticks will stimulate the ripening of bananas after 3-4 days. The amount of incense depends on the number of bananas and the outdoor temperature.

Le Thi L. sells bananas at Nghia Tan market (Hanoi), said that every day her shop sells an average of 300-350 bananas, the highest day is nearly 500 pots, all are brewed with incense. Her method of composting, bananas put the whole chamber or cut into stalls, then put it into a big barrel, about a few dozen barrels each, put four incense sticks into the stalks. . After 3-4 days take bananas from the barrel. Everyday her family vinegar 7 bananas like that.

"So far, it's okay for everyone to do that. It's 100% safe to make banana bananas." Is it the answer of the salespeople when asked if incubation of incense bananas has a health impact?

How to brew bananas with incense.

What is the good chemical flavor when you brew bananas?

Clean incense is made from woody notes with aroma (bass, cinnamon) and pickled bamboo toothpick. When burning incense smoke emits a characteristic scent of woods blending together to create a relaxed and comfortable feeling. However, today due to the scarcity of wood in addition to consumer tastes, it is preferred to have a scent of incense with the belief that there will be many budgets, so for-profit producers have used sawdust with aromas and chemicals. Toxic substances to produce incense affect the health of incense producers as well as incense burners.

Dr. Doan Ngoc Hai, Director of the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health (Ministry of Health) said: The Institute of Laboratory and Analysis has conducted 5 samples of samples taken randomly from the market. The results showed that in the composition of powder and scent of all the samples contained chemicals: sulfur, phosphoric acid . Test results of incense smoke showed that when burning 3 compress incense in 40 minutes smoke incense produces toxic gases such as: SO ₂ (sulfur dioxide), CO (carbon oxide), NO ₂ (nitrogen dioxide). Low levels of CO can cause headaches, dizziness, nausea, and high levels of death. In addition, exposure to SO ₂ and NO ₂ when burning incense may reduce working capacity, cardiovascular effects, and respiratory damage .

Every day thousands of bananas are marketed, if all are brewed with incense (according to salespeople), the amount of toxic gas to compost the bananas will be huge. And in a narrow environment (drums, jars), the amount of gas that is difficult to evaporate out, do they "compost" in bananas. So is bananas fed with "poison" dangerous to health?

Is it harmful to eat ripe bananas?

Ms. Tran Thi Hoa (Tran Cung - Hanoi) said that her family has 6 people who like to eat bananas so every time they go to the market, they have to choose very carefully. , she often chooses uneven ripe fruits, spotted banana peels with black spots, soft and smooth.

Incense bananas are sold at stores.

Making bananas with incense is the traditional method that has been used for generations. However, with the current method and materials for incense making, the incubation of incense sticks is as difficult as the sellers claim.

Smoke incense contains many toxic gases dangerous to human health, whether using incense to ripen bananas in tight, tight spaces, toxic gas from incense can "infuse" in bananas, while bananas are easy to use, After buying, usually used, not water. With cracked or shelled bananas, the risk of toxic gas is higher, users should remove it to ensure safety.

To ensure absolute safety, consumers should buy green bananas home to ripen naturally or buy at reputable stores. In addition, business people should use measures such as letting bananas ripen naturally, considering it a responsibility to the community, to consumers' health.

Experience of relatives said that the best banana code is the vinegar . The banana vinegar furnace is also constructed as a spring spring germ, with vents, and room to monitor the temperature in the oven. On the top of the kiln is the iron hooks that can hang the banana chamber when vinegar. Chop bananas until 2 days before burning. Between the base of the furnace burn a pile of rice husk, when almost burnt, use clean ash (ready to dispose of garbage) to cover up the rice husk coal. Then fan the smoke in the new oven and put the bananas in the oven and close the doors. Summer vinegar 2-3 days, ripe, winter 5-7 days. Good banana vinegar is dependent on weather conditions to decide the time of oven opening, because if the oven is open, the banana is not yet ripe, then the vinegar is very difficult, the fruit is bad .