Potential dangers in spice few expect

False spice, unknown origin can cause intestinal infections, long-term use will damage the internal organs, destroy cells, even cancer.

For more than 33 years of working, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Lam - Deputy Director of the National Institute of Nutrition met many patients affected by serious health consequences of spice poisoning. Housewives often pay much attention to meat - fish - vegetables, but little is known that the food preparation seasonings may not be safe.

Spices make food more delicious to stimulate taste, smell, sight and digestive system. Housewives of the housewife cannot lack sugar, salt, soup powder, seasoning seeds, monosodium glutamate, sauce, soy sauce, curry, soy sauce, spices marinated in grilled or hot pot . However, many sisters aim eyes buy doses of spice packs without labels, ambiguity of origin, lack of production date or expiry date. Cheap spice is also favored by popular eateries. They can improve immediately the color and taste of rancid fish.

According to Dr. Lam, the process of producing, preserving and selling spices does not guarantee hygiene, causing serious health effects such as intestinal infections causing poisoning, diarrhea, vomiting, dizziness and inflammation. stomach ulcer or toxic contamination .

Spices help the dish more tasty and delicious.

Fake spices are harmful, but true spices if used in the wrong way are not good for health. Housewives should keep in mind when choosing to buy, use and preserve 5 common spices below.

Soup

Soup is a popular spice but is also easy to counterfeit. The technology of making fake soup powder is quite simple, crushing dry roasted white salt, garlic powder, pepper powder, main noodles, sugar . and then packing into imitation packaging. In addition, some handicraft workshops also process iodine soup powder, spicy soup powder, and fruits with plastic bags of 1-2kg. Raw materials of unknown origin and processes are not hygienic, potentially dangerous to health.

Housewives should choose to buy soup broth clear origin, ingredients, quality. This type of spice is easily watery and contaminated when the weather is humid. Therefore, care should be taken to keep the airtight and cool place.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that each adult should eat less than 5g of salt per day . A bowl of pho or vermicelli has 4-5g of salt. However, according to a survey by the National Institute of Nutrition in 2014, nearly 60% of people consume salt 2-3 times higher than the recommended amount, increasing blood pressure, cardiovascular, stroke, kidney disease . Pregnant women who eat salty may have pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, which is dangerous for both mother and child. Therefore, Dr. Lam noted the content when using soup powder as well as salty spices. Children under one year of age do not need to season with salt.

Particle

More and more housewives love seasoning seeds because of their delicious taste and convenient usage. Restaurants and eateries also tend to use seasoning seeds to create sweet bone stew for food. However, recent arrests have shown that the market is rampant with "3 no" wedges : no labeling, no origin, no production date and expiry date.

Many small markets in Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, Binh Duong and Long An . sell seasoning seeds in white plastic bags, manually packing 0.5-1kg at half the price of real goods. The main customers are the popular eateries (noodle soup, noodle soup, rice, hotpot .) and a profitable industrial kitchen, the cook can cook a pot of water for a hundred customers with only 15,000 VND. wedge.

Seasoning seeds create sweet bone stew for food.

Dr. Lam said, wedge seeds as well as other packaged spices, must be produced by modern processes, ensuring the conditions of temperature, humidity, microorganisms . Production staff also must be fully equipped with protective and hygienic tools before entering the packaging line. The use of "3 no" wedges produces, preserves and displays them in unsafe conditions that will cause the body to become infected.

Mild infections cause changes in the intestinal flora, long-term use leads to the risk of digestive diseases such as diarrhea, constipation, ulcers . At higher levels, intestinal bacteria Such as E.coli, Salmonella, golden staphylococcus . can cause diarrhea, vomiting, and even death from poisoning.

In addition, "3 no" wedge seeds also contain many impurities such as heavy metals, banned additives. When these substances enter the body will accumulate, it takes a long time to be excreted outside. If used for a long time, it will cause organs to damage, destroy cells, alter genes, and form strange cells as a premise for cancer. Therefore, housewives should choose to buy products with labels, full information about the origin, manufacturer, ingredients and expiry dates.

Fish sauce

Fish sauce is a familiar spice in Vietnamese trays. Delicious fish sauce is processed by natural brewing method of fresh sea fish and clean salt. To maximize profits, many establishments concoct low-grade fish sauce with water and salt, add colorants, smell, locate, protein, sweeteners, preservatives .

Housewife can choose delicious fish sauce with the naked eye. For example, Phu Quoc fish sauce has a nice brown cockroach wings, no residue, a nice scent, a bold taste mixed with sweet and sour when enjoying. Nha Trang fish sauce is straw yellow; Phan Thiet, Cat Ba and Cat Hai fish sauce are dark brown, the aroma is more intense but unmistakably sweet.

Sisters should not marinate fish sauce with meat before cooking, because the sauce makes meat harder and drier than soup, salt and sugar. It is best to season the dish before turning off the stove for about a minute to create a delicious, rich flavor that still retains the nutrients in the fish sauce.

Street

White sand sugar mixed with toxic phosphoric acid, water and chemicals can turn into yellow yellow sand sugar (chicken fat sugar) with a higher price. With a few hundred times sweeter than cane sugar, Chinese sugar is also used by many food processing establishments without caring about the harmful effects. A small sugar pellet is made of green pea seeds for a sweet taste of 100g of sand sugar.

Sugar is the familiar spice of Southern and Western people.

Housewives should know, sweet sugar cane is sweet, melts slowly in cold water, not melting quickly, sweet and sweet, drinking dessert juice is still as sweet as chemical sugar. For warehousing, it is advisable to marinate sugar in food to infuse or win with boiling water, simmer in low heat and avoid dry heat, causing sugar to burn. If cooked at very high temperatures, sugar will be caramelized, making the food dark brown, reducing the aesthetics of the dish. For soup, season the sugar as the water boils and the dish is about to ripen.

The dishes of the South and especially the West, the sugar content is quite high. Excessive consumption of sugar in the form of spices or drinks, confectionery . will cause dental disease, overweight and obesity, type 2 diabetes . WHO's recommended daily sugar level is less than 9 tablespoons Small for men, 6 small for women.

Vinegar

Vinegar has the effect of deodorizing, cleaning food, creating sour taste, containing many vitamins and amino acids for health. Natural fermented rice vinegar is easily distinguishable from acid-blended vinegar through flavor and color. Acid vinegar has a transparent color, no residue because it does not contain starch, polymeric substances; alcohol smell; bitter taste. So, you should choose a bottle of vinegar when shaking the foam slowly; mild aroma and unremitting right after opening the lid; sour taste.