Food 1: packaged green leaves
The vegetables ranked first include lettuce, which westerners often eat. Mainly because it was not cleaned. Westerners often eat vegetables in the form of lettuce salad. If it is not clean enough, vegetables are easily contaminated by this kind of E.coli..
Green leafy vegetables, including lettuce and spinach, have been flooded in recent years. Harmful bacteria, such as salmonella and Escherichia coli, can pollute vegetables in many ways, for example, the feces of infected animals pollute soil and water sources, or contact bacteria during picking and packaging.
Solution: Packaged vegetables are more susceptible to pollution. If you want to reduce the risk, choose whole fresh vegetables instead of packaged ones. If you buy cabbage, you'd better peel off the leaves outside, because it is easier to be polluted there. Wash your hands before handling other parts after removing the leaves outside. But if it is a loose-leaf vegetable like spinach, the chances of the inside and outside leaves being polluted are the same. The only way is to sterilize by heating.
Dangerous food 2: eggs
Only raw or half-cooked eggs can create life. About 1 eggs will carry salmonella. Although this probability seems low, who can guarantee that all your eggs are safe? Salmonella can spread from egg to egg, so it's best to wait until the eggs are completely cooked before eating.
Solution: Avoid eating raw or undercooked eggs. Some salads will contain half-baked eggs, so pay special attention. Don't eat the cookies until they are baked, because the eggs in the noodles are not cooked yet. Those parts of the egg that are too soft or even not solidified hide danger.
To be on the safe side, you should wait until all the eggs are solidified before eating, and then the eggs will be cooked. If you like to eat half-baked eggs, choose pasteurized eggs. Those sterile eggs usually have labels on their shells or packages.
Egg Dangerous Food 3: Tuna
The symptoms caused by tuna are usually mackerel poisoning. Tuna will rot quickly after being caught. If the storage temperature exceeds 15.6 degrees Celsius, natural toxins will be released. This toxin cannot be decomposed by cooking, refrigeration, smoking, processing or canning.
Dangerous food 4: oysters
Oysters are usually caused by Norwalk virus or Vibrio, and the former may come from polluted waters. Raw or undercooked oysters can cause gastroenteritis. Vibrio is similar to cholera and more dangerous.
Dangerous food 5: potatoes
Potatoes are usually cooked aseptically, but potato dishes often have many ingredients, some of which may be problematic. Salmonella is the most important, followed by Escherichia coli.
Potato dangerous food 6: cheese without high temperature disinfection
Cheese Some Latin American cheeses may be made from unsterilized milk. Soft cheese may contain listeria, so be careful before eating it, or it will miscarry.
Unless you drink fresh milk just squeezed from cows, most milk on the market is pasteurized. Most people know that they should drink pasteurized milk. But have you ever thought that maybe the cheese you eat has not been treated like this? Many soft cheeses, including French brie and feta, have not been sterilized at high temperature. Although the United States requires domestic and imported cheeses that have not been sterilized at high temperature to be preserved for at least 60 days, they are still at risk of getting sick. Therefore, children, the elderly and people with poor immunity are advised not to eat this cheese.
Solution: read the instructions on the cheese package before buying. The general ingredient list will indicate whether the cheese is pasteurized milk or untreated milk. Although soft cheese tastes better, I have to remind you that you are risking your health when you eat it.
Dangerous food 7: ice cream
Ice cream Soft ice cream also contains Listeria. This kind of bacteria can survive on the metal surface and stay in the ice cream machine, polluting a lot of ice cream.
Ice cream dangerous food 8: salad
You can often see salads in western restaurants or cafeterias. There are all kinds of fruits, vegetables and sauces for you to choose from. Some salad bars are all salads made by chefs. Maybe you find it convenient. Just pick and choose and you can eat ready-made salads. However, laziness is also risky, because you don't know whether these ingredients are fresh, whether some raw materials need to be cooked are in place, whether the restaurant staff are healthy, and whether there are infectious diseases ... Salads are not sterilized at high temperature like other foods, almost all of them are raw, the most.
Solution: Make sure that the salad bar you go to keeps the food at the right temperature. Whether the restaurant is qualified, whether the chefs and waiters have colds or other infectious diseases. Whether the place where food is placed is covered to prevent people from polluting food when sneezing or coughing. If you are not sure, the safest way is to go home and cook for yourself.
Dangerous food 9: tomatoes
Tomatoes are usually caused by salmonella. This fungus enters tomatoes through roots or flowers, so tomatoes cannot be eaten raw.
Tomato dangerous food 10: bean sprouts
The environment in which bean sprouts grow is also the most suitable for the breeding of harmful bacteria. It keeps moist all the time, which is the best environment for bacterial reproduction.
Solution: Although Doyle said that some researchers tried to determine whether bean sprouts were contaminated by testing the moisture in the soil, it was not a completely reliable method. People often get sick after eating bean sprouts. Even if you grow bean sprouts at home, you can't sit back and relax-no matter how careful you are, harmful bacteria growing in large areas will appear on your bean sprouts. Washing bean sprouts can't remove harmful bacteria. The only way is to cook or fry with fire.
XI dangerous food: berries
Berries containing cyclosporine can parasitize the intestines, causing severe diarrhea, dehydration and stomach cramps. Patients must be injected with antibiotics, so they must seek medical treatment.
Berry Dangerous Food XII: Undercooked Beef Stuffing
Eating raw or medium-rare beef is usually risky because it may carry salmonella and Escherichia coli. Even if there are no loopholes in the production process of beef, there is still the possibility of carrying bacteria. The safest way is to choose sterilized beef products. Ground beef stuffing is more unsafe than whole beef, because there are many processing procedures and it is easier to be eaten.
Solution: The temperature below 140 degrees Celsius usually only allows the meat to be half-cooked. It takes a high temperature of 160 degrees Celsius to cook the meat thoroughly and kill the bacteria. The cooked meat stuffing is brown, not pink.
Dangerous food XIII: Sushi
The biggest problem with sushi is parasites-tapeworms, flatworms and roundworms, which are likely to be found in raw fish. If you want to eat safely, you'd better go to a regular Japanese restaurant, where chefs not only know how to choose the best fish, but also know which fish may have parasites, and remove parasites in the process of making sushi. Although raw fish can't guarantee 100% safety, dipping in sauce or green mustard may have some bactericidal effect when eating.
Solution: Fish should be cooked at a high temperature of 145 degrees Celsius for at least 1 minute to kill parasites. But that's not sushi. The only way to eat fish raw without parasites is to eat sushi made of frozen fish. Raw fish can kill parasites if they are frozen at -3 1 celsius for at least 15 hours.
Raw chicken dangerous food 14: raw chicken
Raw chicken is a notorious carrier of Salmonella and Campylobacter. The biggest risk factor is not eating chicken, as long as the chicken is cooked, there is no pink part when it is cut, but it is cooked and other foods are cross-infected.
Solution: Be especially careful when handling raw chicken. Wash the knife, chopping board, stove and hands immediately after cutting the chicken to prevent the bacteria in the chicken from spreading to other foods. When you put the chicken on the grill, you should clean the used plate or put a new plate to put the roast chicken.
Dangerous food 15: salad dressing
Generally speaking, salad dressing is not dangerous. Because salad dressing is acidic, it has a certain bactericidal effect. However, in view of the fact that many people get sick after eating vegetable platters and sandwiches with salad dressing, salad dressing is still on the list of risk foods. Because even though salad dressing can be sterilized, it will go bad if it is not preserved properly. Just because of the unique smell and slightly sour taste of salad dressing, many people do not notice that it has gone bad.
Solution: seal the salad dressing and put it in the refrigerator. Don't eat expired salad dressing. If you make salad dressing at home, be sure that all the raw materials are fresh and pollution-free, and the utensils you make should be clean.
Dangerous food in salad dressing 16: cantaloupe
Because there are many cracks in the peel of cantaloupe, it is easy to be polluted and breed bacteria. Once the melon is cut, these bacteria will run into the pulp.
Solution: Buy fresh and complete cantaloupe, carefully wash the peel before eating, and reduce the probability of pulp quilt cover, but this is not enough. Cut cantaloupe must be carefully stored, because there will be many bacteria breeding at room temperature. So put the cut cantaloupe in the refrigerator.
Avoiding dangerous food or removing dangerous factors from food is something we must do before enjoying food, because it is related to our health. From the beginning of life, we can reduce the chances of getting sick and improve our health, which is our pursuit of health.