Will eat leftover food cause cancer? Expert: is actually nutrient loss
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”Noon meal becomes cause of gastric carcinoma in young women, eating leftover food 3.6 times times higher risk of gastric cancer! “Overnight how can you eat a meal? This is a subject of controversy in recent years constantly, and also heat up on Twitter recently, because of the “noon meal becomes cause of gastric carcinoma in young women”, causing forward on Twitter for another round of binge. “Experts say, placing time overnight after food is cooked for a long time, under the action of bacteria, nitrate into nitrite, has a carcinogenic effect, heat cannot be removed. So be sure not to eat leftover lunches! “It sounds really is” sensational “, was used by many dishes of white-collar workers are worried. This is really any reason? How can you eat vegetables for overnight?
Leftover food toxic on the origins of “nitrite cause cancer” said
Yangzi evening news reporter after inquiry found that leftover food toxic on the most important argument is the following passage:
”As some of the leaves contain higher concentrations of nitrates in vegetables, cooked place for too long, under the action of bacterial decomposition, nitrate into nitrite, has a carcinogenic effect, heat cannot be removed. ”
What is the actual situation? Diet expert with combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital in Nanjing zijin Museum Xu Dacheng Deputy Chief physician said, itself in many vegetables contain nitrates and nitrites. Containing nitrite in vegetables, because during the growth of vegetables to nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen is coming from.
In General, less than the content of nitrite in vegetables cooked in vegetables. Leftovers on the longer, nitrite increased the possibility of more. But needs pointed out that of is, nitrate itself is nontoxic of, but vegetable in Cook cooked Hou if placed time had long, in bacteria of decomposition role Xia, will transformation into Asia nitrate, Asia nitrate is human over intake will makes people appears dizziness hypoxia symptoms, while reached must limited of Asia nitrate also has may and human within of other food, and drug of some material occurs reaction, formed strong carcinogenic real-the-the Asia nitrate amine.
Xu Dacheng, Deputy Director of Chinese medicine practitioners say, in his clinic had reception a couple of colorectal cancer patients, has a habit of eating leftover food for many years. “Cancer causes for the formation of more complex, however, there has yet to be ascertained, but may be associated with this lifestyle, that would also eat leftover food is the reason they are pathogenic. “Director Xu said.
General overnight dishes of nitrite content sufficient to cause cancer
Xu Dacheng, Deputy Director of Chinese medicine practitioners said, in fact, although compared with fresh vegetables, content of nitrite in vegetables will increase overnight, but the case of a normal diet will not reach the amount of cancer. Such as green leaf vegetables, for example, according to a scientific experiment shows that, without turning into the refrigerator after cooking, green vegetables such as spinach nitrite contents after about 24 hours rising from 3mg/kg to 7mg/kg. Human intake of 0.2G nitrite poisoning may occur, this shows that to achieve intoxication, on a need to eat at least dozens of kilograms of leftover vegetables, normal, which is obviously impossible.
Leftover food on health is actually nutrient losses
Despite the leftover food cause cancer that only at the theoretical level, but experts still suggested that they’d better eat less because the overnight loss of food is nutrition for maximum adverse health effect.
Experts suggest that it is best not to eat leftovers, if special circumstances require with overnight dishes, in addition to the above said note overnight vegetable fresh-keeping, also have a choice. Such as leaf vegetables, especially dark green vegetables, is not suitable for rice. To select some like eggplant, melon, potato, carrot, cauliflower, mushrooms etc as preferred dishes with rice. Reporter Yu Dandan