Boil bacon and sausage in water first. Because there will be a certain amount of nitrite in smoked products such as bacon, even if only a small amount is ingested at a time, it will still increase the risk of gastric cancer. If the bacon is fully cooked in water first, nitrite will dissolve in water and it will be safer to eat.

In addition, it must be cooked in a pot with cold water, so that water can slowly penetrate into the meat tissue, make the dried bacon sausage more moist, and nitrite is easy to fully ooze.

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The oil and salt content of bacon is relatively high. As long as the intake is well controlled, it will not have much impact on health. When eating bacon, you can cook the bacon first and then steam it, so that the water can slowly penetrate into the meat tissue. On the one hand, it can moisten dried bacon, on the other hand, it can remove excessive salt from bacon.

Secondly, when eating bacon, don't eat it with dry and greasy food and glutinous rice balls, which is not conducive to digestion. Can be paired with vegetables, because the vitamins in vegetables help to eliminate nitrite in bacon and also play an antioxidant role. Because a lot of salt has been used in the process of making bacon, it is best not to put salt in cooking, so as to control the salt intake in a meal.

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