Spring rolls on Tet holiday: Experts note diet to avoid 'bringing disease into the body'

Gio Thu is one of the typical dishes of Vietnamese people during Tet. However, pork sausage contains a lot of fat and calories, so do not eat too much or too often to avoid weight gain.

In the Tet feast, in addition to banh chung, chicken, bamboo shoot soup, pork sausage or frozen meat, Gio Thu (fried sausage) is also a dish that is often favored by people and is very suitable for the cold winter weather of the region. North.

True to its name, Gio Thu is made mainly from parts of the pig's head such as the pig's ears, nose, cheeks, or can add tongue or pork leg meat. In addition to the above main ingredients, to make delicious spring rolls, it is indispensable to have wood ear mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, pepper.

Our ancestors long ago believed that a plate of spring rolls symbolizes hope for a prosperous, peaceful, and prosperous year. To make this dish, families have to be very meticulous in both ingredients and preparation. Pork sausage is often easy to eat because it comes with rice, but experts advise against eating this dish a lot.

Dr. Nguyen Trong Hung - Head of the Department of Adult Nutrition Examination and Consulting (National Institute of Nutrition) said that pork sausage is made from rare meat of the head, cheeks, and cheeks, so it contains a lot of fat . Due to the high amount of fat, eating a lot will cause excess energy, easily causing weight gain during Tet.

Experts advise families to make their own to control the origin of the food.

When eating, people need to pay attention to controlling their energy intake by eating less. They should only eat for enjoyment, not fullness.

Pork sausage is very easy to make, families should make it themselves to control the origin. When making this dish, you need to choose fresh meat, so it has high nutritional value and ensures the quality of the sausage.

When making pork sausage, if you add ingredients such as wood ear mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms, you need to preserve them carefully, otherwise they will spoil very quickly.

Doctor Hung recommends that not knowing how to preserve food well will increase the risk of poisoning. When you see that the sausage is spoiled, you should not feel sorry for it, but you should throw it away immediately. If you try to eat it, you will easily get digestive disorders, and in severe cases, you will be hospitalized for poisoning.

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh, a food technology expert, pork sausage is a dish that people thought of and prepared themselves to save food resources, especially the meat from the pig's head.

To make pork sausage, you need ingredients such as: pig cheek, pig neck, pig ear, pig tongue. All these meats are stir-fried to make it sticky, then add wood ear mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms to make it easier to eat and add more. A little fish sauce and pepper for flavor.

The preservation of spring rolls is given special attention by technology experts. Pork sausage is delicious but has the disadvantage that it is only suitable in cold weather. In hot or humid weather, sausage spoils very quickly. Therefore, the step of preserving sausage is also very important. If the weather is cold, you can leave the whole uneaten sausage outside. When cut and eaten, it should be stored in the refrigerator. Particularly for hot weather, after the sausage is placed in the mold to cool, it should be stored immediately in the refrigerator.

Every time you take the sausage out and cut it to eat, you need to wrap it carefully with plastic wrap. If left out in the wild in hot weather conditions, it will melt and will not have adhesion and will be easily damaged.

When making, families need to be very careful and meticulous in removing tumors to ensure the dish is as safe as possible.

Associate Professor Nguyen Duy Thinh noted that the most worrying issue with sausage is the quality of the meat , because sausage is made from meat from the neck and head, so there will be many lumps, also known as lymph nodes. Therefore, when making food, families need to be very careful and meticulous in removing tumors and hairs to ensure the best quality of food.

'The lumps in the pig's neck and head are actually the pig's lymph nodes, gray white or light yellow in color. These nodes all contain pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. They not only have an unpleasant odor but can also directly transmit diseases to the body, making them very difficult to destroy even when cooked at high temperatures. Therefore, no matter what form of preparation or dish, it is necessary to carefully remove these lumps ," Associate Professor Nguyen Duy Thinh noted.

To ensure safety when using sausage, Associate Professor Thinh advises families to make it themselves . When buying it from a store, maybe because it's too much work or for profit, they won't do it carefully, especially removing the lumps that can cause damage. harmful to health.