Barbecue is a very common food in our life, but it is harmful to our health, so we can't eat it often. What are the hazards of barbecue? What are the precautions for eating barbecue? How can we achieve a healthy diet? Come and have a look with me!

When it comes to barbecue, the foodies are all bright-eyed. Let's go on a date tonight! People who like to keep in good health will frown and shake their heads at this time: if you disagree, this thing will cause cancer.

You said on TV that eating a barbecue chicken leg contains benzopyrene, which is equivalent to smoking 60 cigarettes.

How many chicken legs do I have to eat to get cancer?

At first glance, the saying "one chicken leg =60 cigarettes" is really surprising. What is the symbol of benzopyrene contrast?

Benzopyrene, abbreviated as Bap, is a common high-activity indirect carcinogen and mutagen, belonging to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which is toxic and will cause cancer after accumulation in the body. Benzpyrene compounds in food mainly come from benzopyrene that pollutes food when smoked or cooked at high temperature.

The main source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, such as benzopyrene, can produce benzopyrene when cooking food at high temperature: high-temperature vegetable oil used many times, over-fried and fried food. The higher the vegetable oil and oil temperature used for frying food repeatedly, the more benzopyrene is produced. In addition, when cooking oil is heated to 270℃, the generated oil fume contains compounds such as benzopyrene.

The content of benzopyrene (1kg) in food pollutants has an upper limit.

Relevant literature shows that a cigarette burns to produce 15.7 ~ 27. 1 nanogram of benzopyrene. Then, if you substitute into the above chicken leg equation, you will get the result that the smoke produced by roasting a chicken leg is ≈60 cigarettes ≈ 0.94 ~ 1.62 μ g benzopyrene.

In this way, the content of benzopyrene in the smoke produced by roasting chicken legs is indeed n times higher than the national standard. I believe everyone knows which is more important, eating a chicken leg or smoking a few packs of cigarettes.

What should I pay attention to when eating barbecue?

Pay attention to firepower

The connection between barbecue and cancer always revolves around meat. In fact, it is precisely burnt meat or cancer caused by high temperature.

Basically, if you cook any meat food and eat it, you will be at risk of cancer.

It is best to choose an oven with controllable temperature, and keep the temperature below 160 degrees, which can greatly reduce the generation of carcinogens. In the case of frequent turning, the surface temperature of meat is relatively low, and the less carcinogens are produced. Even heating will reduce the baking time, but the premise is to ensure that it is cooked thoroughly.

The raw materials are marinated with sauce in advance.

Insiders pointed out that soaking meat and fish in special barbecue sauce before barbecue is a good way to enhance health protection.

The finished barbecue sauce sold in the market is brightly colored and contains lemon juice, tomato sauce and garlic juice. These acidic and reducing substances have certain anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects, and also have a protective effect on the surface of fresh meat, which can reduce carcinogens during barbecue by 88%.

Don't put meat on the grill.

Experiments have found that the farther away from the fire source, the less carcinogens are produced.

If the sausage meets fire, the content of benzopyrene in the finished product is10.7 μ g/kg; If the barbecue grill is raised so that the sausage is 5 cm away from the fire, the value will drop to 0.67 micrograms, which is far lower than the 5 micrograms required by the Hygienic Standard for Smoked and Roasted Animal Food. If the barbecue device is modified and the sausage is placed by the fire, the final benzopyrene content is only 0. 1 microgram, which is equivalent to its original content in meat. In other words, this baking method hardly produces benzopyrene.

Eat more vegetables

Fresh green leafy vegetables, such as lettuce and spinach, as well as tomatoes, white radishes and green peppers, all contain a lot of vitamins C and E ... Among them, rich vitamin C can reduce the production of carcinogenic nitrosamines; Vitamin e has a strong antioxidant effect. This scientific collocation can reduce the disadvantages of eating barbecue.

Stand against the wind when baking.

A study on 20 15 found that people who are exposed to barbecue smoke every day 1 hour have a higher risk of cancer. So when barbecuing, try to stand against the wind and stay away from the barbecue grill.

It is not advisable to drink coke with beer.

Many people like kebabs and cold beer. In fact, because beer can promote blood circulation, this way of eating is more likely to promote the formation of cancer cells. If you eat barbecue with coke, there is a risk of bone cancer.

Because the caffeine contained in cola will accelerate the carbon ion activity after the decomposition of smoked food, resulting in serious loss of calcium in the body. Because the human body has a self-repair mechanism, when the calcium loss is serious, the human body will involuntarily want to make more bone cells. This excessive proliferation is easy to cause pathological changes and lead to bone cancer.

Eat some fruit after eating mutton skewers.

banana

The latest research found that bananas can inhibit the carcinogenesis of benzopyrene to some extent and protect the gastrointestinal tract.

pear

Eating pears regularly can not only prevent constipation, but also promote the discharge of carcinogens in the human body. The survey results show that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are strong carcinogens, will be significantly reduced after eating pears, especially after drinking heated pear juice.

Experts suggest that eating a pear after a meal is a recommended healthy lifestyle today when people are keen on eating fried and baked goods and fast food.

apple

Apples are nutritious, rich in vitamin C and potassium, and also contain cellulose to supplement intestinal capacity, which can reduce carcinogens.

orange

Oranges are also rich in vitamins, which can improve the human body's ability to resist bacterial invasion, remove free radicals harmful to health and inhibit the growth of tumor cells.

What foods are harmful to health?

1 cookies

(excluding low-temperature baking and graham crackers) Too much edible essence and pigment, which causes pressure on liver function, seriously damages Vit, has too many calories and low nutrients.

2. Fried food

It contains carcinogens, destroys Vit, denatures protein, and is the culprit of cardiovascular diseases.

3. preserved eggs

Preserved eggs contain a certain amount of lead, which can lead to lead poisoning if eaten frequently. The manifestations of lead poisoning are insomnia, anemia, hyperactivity and mental retardation.

4. bubble gum

Although the natural rubber in bubble gum is non-toxic, some toxic additives such as vulcanization accelerator and antioxidant are added to the first-grade white rubber used to make bubble gum, which will be harmful to the health.

5.freshly squeezed orange juice with sugar

Sugar orange juice contains more calories and sugar than soda water. It is recommended to eat raw fruit.

6.stinky tofu

Stinky tofu is easily contaminated by microorganisms during fermentation, and it also contains a lot of volatile basic nitrogen and hydrogen sulfide. It also decomposes corrupt substances in protein, which is harmful to human body.

7, monosodium glutamate

The intake of monosodium glutamate per person per day should not exceed 6 grams. Excessive intake will increase the content of glutamic acid in blood, limit the utilization of calcium and magnesium, cause short-term symptoms such as headache, palpitation and nausea, and have adverse effects on human reproductive system.

8. Sunflower seeds

Sunflower seeds contain unsaturated fatty acids. Eating more will consume a lot of choline, hinder fat metabolism in the body, make a lot of fat accumulate in the liver, and seriously affect the function of liver cells.

Conclusion: Barbecue is a very common food in our life. Many people like it very much, but it is not good for our health to eat it often, so we can't eat it often. So what are the precautions for eating barbecue? After reading the introduction above, everyone knows! I hope I can help you.