In winter, a group of friends eat and chat around steaming hot pot. While enjoying delicious food, they can reduce the pressure of work and enhance the affection between friends, which is really a great enjoyment of life. But in recent years, many studies have shown that eating hot pot has many health risks.
1, burn oral mucosa
Eating hot pot has always been said to be "one hot and three fresh". The food fished out of the hot pot is traditionally eaten while it is hot, but in fact, our oral mucosa cannot be affected by excessive temperature. Studies have shown that foods above 50 degrees will cause damage to oral mucosa.
Cooking for a long time will produce harmful substances.
We eat hot pot for as little as 40 minutes and as much as 2 hours at a time. It is also common to eat hot pot for 4-5 hours if you have many friends. However, if the hot pot is cooked for too long, the substances in the food will dissolve in the soup base, and eating too much will cause gout and joint pain. In addition, because different ingredients will be put into the hot pot, the ingredients of various ingredients in the hot pot soup may react chemically for a long time, producing substances harmful to the human body.
3. The hot pot soup base is unsafe.
When eating hot pot outside, there is usually a soup base to choose from, but some unscrupulous merchants will use chemical additives that are not good for human body to increase the umami or spicy taste of the soup base. Some people even add poppy shells to hot pot for turnover, which may be addictive.
4, spicy hot pot is orthodox!
Many people have a soft spot for spicy hot pot, which is one of the best-selling hot pots in the winter market. But in fact, like hot pot, the harm of spicy food to the mucosa of the whole digestive system can not be ignored. Even people who like to eat spicy food and can eat spicy food may not be able to stand it in their mouths, which may easily cause digestive system inflammation, excessive internal heat, constipation, hemorrhoids and other problems.
How to eat hot pot healthily
1. Don't eat the food in the hot pot right away. Let it cool before eating.
2, eating hot pot time should not be too long, about 40 minutes is appropriate.
Try not to drink hot pot soup. If you want soup, you should get another one.
4, eating hot pot should not be too spicy and oily, after eating, you can drink a cup of health tea to moisten your stomach.
5, ingredients must be cooked before eating, do not pursue fresh, crisp, smooth taste and ignore health problems.
6. When eating hot pot, the drinks and condiments should be light and mild.
7. Eat more vegetables in hot pot, eliminate greasy and supplement vitamins.
8. Eat hot pot at a moderate frequency, and don't eat all meals. Diet should be light after meals.
9. Hot pot is best eaten at home to reduce the intake of chemical additives; Eating hot pot outside should avoid greasy soup base.