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Why fried food is unhealthy

The harmfulness of fried food is mainly manifested in the following aspects:

1, poor hygiene conditions

Fried food health problems bear the brunt of the problem, especially in the health standards are not regulated in China. Fried food hygiene problems have two layers: First, they used to fry the raw materials are not hygienic, many fried raw materials are fast or already bad, get some there to decorate the door. Second, the use of oil is unhygienic, many poor street vendors often use gutter oil to fry food. There are also some vendors even if the use of qualified cooking oil, but they are in order to save costs will often be repeated high-temperature heating of oil use, so that the oil and grease frying scorched black, which undoubtedly increases the content of carcinogens and harmful substances. In addition, because fried food is cooked at high temperatures in a very short period of time, often the outside has been fried yellow (paste) hard inside but not cooked, not only did not effectively kill pathogenic microorganisms in the food, easy to occur intestinal parasites and other diseases.

2, leading to obesity

Fried food, whether it is foreign fast food, or our old Chinese tradition of doughnuts, oil cakes are high-fat food. Smell in the nose, eat in the mouth cool, can be loaded into the stomach, high fat is not conducive to digestion, not only affect your stomach and intestines, but also lead to obesity. In this society where slimness is beautiful, you would rather starve to death than live with fat. And obesity also brings more health problems. Instead of spending money every day to lose weight, why don't you take control of your diet?

3, produce toxic and harmful substances

Fats and oils repeatedly heated at high temperatures will produce toxic and harmful substances. Because of repeated high-temperature heating of fats and oils, the unsaturated fatty acids produced by the high-temperature heating of polymers - dimers, trimers, toxicity is strong. Most fried and baked foods, especially french fries contain high concentrations of acrylamide, commonly known as C-toxin, a carcinogen.

4, serious damage to nutrients

Food fried at high temperatures, where a variety of nutrients are seriously damaged. High-temperature protein frying deterioration and reduce the nutritional value of high temperature will also destroy the fat-soluble vitamins in food, such as vitamin A, carotene and vitamin E, preventing the body from absorbing and utilizing them.

5, aluminum content is seriously excessive

Many people often eat breakfast oil, oil cake. But due to the addition of a relaxing agent - alum and make the aluminum content are seriously excessive. Excessive intake of aluminum will be harmful to the human body, aluminum is an amphoteric element, that is to say, aluminum and acid and alkali can react, after the reaction to the formation of compounds, easy to be absorbed by the intestinal tract, and can enter the brain, affecting the intellectual development of children, and may lead to Alzheimer's disease. In addition, do the dough when the doughnut after alum treatment, high alkalinity, so that the loss of vitamin B1.

6, induced disease

Fried food fat content, not easy to digest, often eat fried food will cause indigestion, as well as satiety after the chest full, and even nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite and so on. People who often eat fried food, due to the lack of vitamins and water, easy to fire, constipation.

1. Fried food contains a large amount of acrylamide, is a 2A carcinogen, there are many hazards to the human body, which are unquestionable scientific conclusions, confirmed by the World Health Organization and the report of the health department of many countries. The Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China (MOH) has emphasized the harmful effects of fried foods, citing the MOH's recommendations as follows: 1. Avoid frying starchy foods for long periods of time or at high temperatures as much as possible. 2. Promote rational nutrition, balanced diets, and change the eating habits of fried and high-fat foods to reduce the health hazards that may result from acrylamide. 3. Ministry of Health food pollutant monitoring network monitoring results show that high-temperature processing of starchy foods (such as fried potato foods and fried instant noodles, etc.) in the acrylamide content is higher, our residents consume more fried foods, exposure is larger, long-term low-dose exposure, there is a great harm.

2. The Ministry of Health recently issued a bulletin pointing out that starchy foods are prone to acrylamide under high-temperature cooking at over 120 degrees Celsius, and animal test results show that acrylamide is a possible carcinogen. The Ministry of Health advises the public to change their dietary habits, which are dominated by fried and high-fat foods, in order to minimize the potential harmful effects of acrylamide on the human body. The results of food contaminant monitoring by the Ministry of Health show that starchy foods processed at high temperatures (such as fried potato chips and French fries) contain high levels of acrylamide, with the average level of acrylamide in potato fried foods being four times higher than that in cereal fried foods. China's residents consume more fried food, the exposure is larger, and long-term low-dose exposure is potentially harmful. The announcement pointed out that acrylamide is a chemical substance that is the raw material for the production of polyacrylamide, which can be used for industrial purposes such as sewage purification.

3. The calories and fat contained in fried foods are extremely high, and long-term intake can also lead to obesity or a number of related diseases, such as diabetes, coronary heart disease and hyperlipidemia.