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Often consume pickled food is harmful to the body?

The main hazards of pickled foods are:

1, leading to high blood pressure, overburdened kidneys, leading to nasopharyngeal cancer;

2, affecting the mucous membrane system (harmful to the stomach and intestines);

3, susceptible to ulcers and inflammation.

Pickled food is traditional food, many families have the habit of pickles. But pickled food more, partial to eat on the human body is not good. This is because: vegetables pickled, the vitamins contained in the loss of more, vitamin C almost all loss; pickled pickles contain more oxalic acid and calcium, due to high acidity, easy to eat in the intestinal tract absorption, by the renal excretion, calcium oxalate crystals are very easy to be deposited in the urinary system to form stones. Pickled food in the pickling process, often contaminated by microorganisms, if the amount of salt added is less than 15%, nitrate in vegetables can be reduced to nitrite by microorganisms, people who eat pickled products containing nitrite will cause poisoning. The symptoms of the skin and mucous membranes are blue-purple, lips and fingernail beds blue, the heavy will also be accompanied by dizziness, headache, rapid heart rate and other symptoms, and even coma. Nitrite in the body when encountered with amines, nitrosamines can be generated. Nitrosamine is a carcinogen, so it is easy to eat pickled products carcinogenic. Therefore, pickled products nutritional damage and harmful, not people's ideal food, to eat less.