Tag: Leftovers

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Is it true that eating leftovers often causes cancer?

Recently, there have been media reports that three members of the Yangzhou family have been found to have gastric cancer since the second half of last year. This article believes that this situation is related to the long-term eating of leftovers by the whole family because the leftovers contain nitrite. Nitrite is what? Do you really get cancer if you eat leftovers frequently? [Nitrite] and [Nitrosamine] Nitrite is a salt made of nitrous acid and contains nitrite ion NO −. It exists widely in nature and is found in the water we drink and the food we eat. Toxicological analysis shows that nitrite has certain acute toxicity, and its half lethal dose is 57 mg/kg (rodents). Poisoning cases usually only Read More …

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Are you still worried about cancer? Simple 4 moves, easy to handle leftovers

Every family inevitably has leftovers, worries about food and pain in abandoning them. Overnight leftovers are poisonous and cannot be eaten? Serious nutritional loss of leftovers? The leftovers are really not delicious… Although the most ideal situation is, of course, no leftovers and fresh meals. However, at the holidays, every family is full of fish and meat, and it is a bit stressful to want [CD-ROM operation]. It is better to leave meat dishes than vegetables. It is vegetables that may produce harmful substances overnight. Because there are more nitrates in vegetables, they may be converted into toxic nitrite due to bacterial activities during storage. Although the amount of this nitrite is far from the degree of food poisoning after Read More …

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Truth: Repeated boiling water cannot be drunk? Can overnight dishes cause cancer?

Many people turn pale at the mention of nitrite. Speaking of which, pickles cannot be eaten, thousands of boiling water cannot be drunk, and leftovers overnight can cause cancer… In fact, there are many misunderstandings about nitrite here. There are four main points in general: Nitrate in food is safe; Nitrate will become nitrite under certain conditions. Excessive intake of nitrite by mistake will lead to acute poisoning. Nitrite is not a carcinogen, nitrosamine produced under specific conditions is a carcinogen. Then, let’s look at a few common questions. Can drinking [thousands of boiling water] be poisoned by nitrite? Not really. Commonly known as “thousands of boiling water”, refers to boiling water for a long time or repeatedly boiling water. Read More …