February 19, 2024
RumorswordsCan seafood and fruit be poisoned?
Truth:During the Spring Festival holiday, many families choose delicious seafood for dinner, and eat some fruits after dinner, resulting in a long-standing rumor that "eating seafood and fruit together can cause poisoning" spread again on the Internet. The myth is that as marine pollutants increase, a certain amount of arsenic compounds accumulate in seafood, and these compounds react with vitamin C in fruits to form toxic arsenic-containing compounds. This statement makes sense in principle, but ignores the dose. According to the estimation of the dose of arsenic compound poisoning, even under the condition of complete reaction, the human body needs to ingest 500mg of vitamin C and several kilograms of heavily contaminated seafood at the same time to have the risk of poisoning. And if 500mg of vitamin C is converted into common fruits, it is about equivalent to more than two catties of lemons or eight catties of apples, which is not at all the amount that ordinary people can eat at one time every day. Therefore, there is no need to worry about the risk of arsenic poisoning when eating seafood and fruits in moderation. (*Scientific Rumor Refutation Platform).
During the Spring Festival, whether it is a reunion of relatives and friends or a trip, it is inseparable from the company of food. Starting from the twenty-fifth day of the lunar year of the rabbit, the "Popular Science Today" column continues to focus on the topic of food safety and health, and conducts a series of popular science on food matching, nutrition and health, food safety, scientific health and other content that netizens are concerned about, clarifying misunderstandings and protecting the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of the masses.
MisunderstandingsCan you get parasites by eating bullfrogs?
Truth:It is true that wild bullfrogs often have Diegong Mansoni tapeworm on their bodies, but bullfrogs in regular restaurants are generally bred in captivity and are safer than wild bullfrogs. Whether you eat roasted bullfrogs, boiled bullfrogs, dry pot bullfrogs or bullfrog hot pot, pay attention to fully heating and cooking, and you don't have to worry about parasites. In addition, if you want to eat bullfrogs with peace of mind, you should also pay attention to the following points:
1.Don't eat wild bullfrogs, and don't catch them yourself. It is recommended to go to a regular supermarket or market to buy artificially bred bullfrogs.
2.When making bullfrogs and other aquatic products at home, you must pay attention to standardized operation, separate raw and cooked food, and prevent cross-contamination.
3.Be sure to cook it thoroughly over high heat before eating.
4.Vinegar, soy sauce, wasabi paste, liquor, etc., do not completely kill the parasite.
5.Eat in moderation. It is recommended to eat 120-200 grams of animal food every day and eat aquatic products twice a week. Among them, the recommended daily intake of livestock and poultry meat is 40-75 grams, and common aquatic products include fish, shrimp, crab and shellfish. (*Scientific Rumor Refutation Platform).
RemindersCan foot soaking cure all diseases? Such a ** pit for middle-aged and elderly people
Details:Recently, there are health clubs with the gimmick of "curing all diseases", claiming that after soaking their feet in their special medicated bath water, they can ** high blood pressure, diabetes, hemiplegia and other diseases, and use free experience and family care to induce the elderly to come to consume, most of them are wearing "white coats", as long as they see the elderly passing by, they will warmly greet and persuade them to apply for a card. According to the investigation by the market supervision department, such clubs that claim to be able to "cure all diseases" often do not have relevant qualifications, and the "all-purpose" medicinal bath water advertised by them is just ordinary salt water and has no medicinal effect.
Tips from the market supervision department: In the face of various businesses, middle-aged and elderly people should be vigilant, do not be blindly gullible, remember that if you are sick, you should not go to the doctor indiscriminately, and the medical advice of the regular hospital should prevail, and the health care should also go to the regular hospital and institution to consult, so as not to spend unjust money, and it is more likely to delay the treatment. If problems are discovered, they should be reported to the relevant departments in a timely manner. (*The city speaks the new language "WeChat***.")
*: China Internet Joint Rumor Refutation Platform.