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What is the harm of eating too much popcorn Popcorn practice

Popcorn is very delicious food, sweet, especially in the movie theater is less it, popcorn is actually at home can do it yourself, and the process of making popcorn is not difficult.

What are the hazards of eating too much popcorn?

1, "popcorn lungs"

In the production of popcorn, often add a substance called "diacetyl", which is an additive that can make popcorn produce a butter flavor. However, a recent study found that if you inhale diacetyl for a long period of time, it can cause blockages in the airways of the lungs, similar to "pneumoconiosis". This is called "popcorn lung". The symptoms of "popcorn lung" are breathlessness and asthma, and if the symptoms are severe, they can be life-threatening.

2, margarine

No matter where the sale of popcorn, which contains hydrogenated vegetable oil made of vegetable cream, this margarine in recent years in the consumption of more. The large, white, solid mass of grease we see at popcorn stands is margarine. Margarine contains trans fatty acids, a substance that is very harmful to human health and can greatly increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and is even associated with old milk dementia and infertility.

3, lead

Most of the lead inside the popcorn exceeds the standard, will cause lead poisoning, very harmful to the human body.

4, flavoring

People who have eaten popcorn know that popcorn smells especially sweet, this is because the popcorn inside the flavoring. These flavors are also safety hazards

popcorn practice

1, hot pan pour oil, under the small corn, medium heat for 1 minute, when there is a crackling sound cover the lid, shake the pot to make the heat evenly, to be no popping sound in the pot when the lid is opened, sheng out, cooled for use.

2, mix the light cream, milk powder, sugar, medium-low heat heating, stirring continuously until all the sugar melted.

3, while hot, mixed into the popcorn, want to eat other flavors are also so practice.

Ordinary corn can do popcorn

General corn at home is not done, to do popcorn with ordinary corn kernels have to use a popcorn machine. But the general family do not have, so you need to specialize in corn, smaller than ordinary one, also known as small corn, rural areas, some of them are planted there, this corn into the general dish pot inside a little heat into popcorn.

What people are not suitable for eating popcorn

Not suitable for eating popcorn of the three categories of people, diabetics, women in labor, infants and children can not eat popcorn.

Popcorn is made of corn and contains sugar.

Popcorn raw material is corn, but due to processing leads to diacetyl overload, often eat on the body is not good.

Maternity is best to eat less popcorn, because popcorn contains too much saturated fat, trans fatty acids, sweeteners and flavors and other substances, for feeding mothers is not suitable for eating, it will affect the nutrition of breast milk, for the growth of the baby is very unfavorable.

The trachea of infants and young children is very thin, eating popcorn is very easy to get stuck in the baby's trachea, so do not give babies under 4 years old to eat popcorn.