Food is the most important thing for the people, which fully explains the importance of food to people's daily life. However, in recent years, while enjoying delicious food, people pay more and more attention to the quality of life and pursue a green and healthy life. Therefore, what they eat can be healthy and reduce fat has become the requirement and goal of many people. Have you heard of the 'light food doctrine' which is very popular in recent years? Light food is like an upsurge, which quickly hit and occupied a large part of the catering market share. For a time, all kinds of 'light food' restaurants bloomed everywhere. Light food is popular with the public because of its low fat, low calorie and high fiber. But is light food really as healthy and flawless as everyone imagined? The editor of this article will talk to you about the risks of light food.
'light food', is it really healthy and safe?
For the popular 'light food restaurant' in big cities, more matching meals are vegetable (fruit) salad, cereal food and some Japanese rice rolls; But in fact, these so-called 'light food' also have many safety and health risks.
Cold foods such as salads are at risk of disease:
Whether it is vegetable salad or fruit salad, the production process does not need to be heated and sterilized; Some salads even add sashimi, raw beef and cheese pieces that have been stored for a long time. These foods are easy to carry microbial toxins such as bacteria without reasonable cleaning and reliable heating; Regular consumption will increase the risk of food poisoning.
In addition, the ambient temperature we eat is generally about 20 degrees Celsius, which is very suitable for the growth and reproduction of various pathogenic bacteria; In other words, the longer you eat, the higher the number of bacteria and other microorganisms will reproduce.
There are many food poisoning incidents caused by eating salad, such as norovirus infection and E. coli poisoning.
Vegetable raw materials may contain 'parasite eggs':
Raw materials used in vegetable salad are likely to be contaminated by parasite eggs and some pathogenic bacteria. For example, farmers' uncles usually use human and animal excreta to fertilize crops. If the previous fermentation is not fully processed, it is likely to bring parasites into food; In addition, there is a risk of heavy metals exceeding the standard in some vegetable planting lands; Eat raw vegetables and fruits, these are safety hazards that have to be mentioned.
'cold meals' also have risks:
Sandwiches, hamburgers, rice rolls and other foods in the 'light food restaurant' cannot be sold and eaten immediately after production, so they are generally stored in the refrigerator, some for a few minutes, some even for a few hours. However, in this process, the ingredients are easy to be invaded and polluted by 'psychrophilic bacteria'.
In addition to the above, some quick-frozen chaos, quick-frozen steamed bread and other 'Chinese light food' (quick-frozen food) are also easy to breed microorganisms such as Staphylococcus aureus; The food safety risk in light food can not be underestimated. Please treat it scientifically.