Bai Yueguang is bright and fragrant with osmanthus. Mid-Autumn Festival, how can we be without a reunion dinner?
However, some old "food rumors" have reappeared, which is annoying. "Zhenzhen" takes stock of some common old-fashioned "food rumors" for you, restores the truth, and makes your Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner rest assured.
Sugar-free moon cakes do not contain sugar, so they can be eaten open?
Truth: not completely sugar-free.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, every household naturally eats moon cakes. In recent years, sugar-free moon cakes have attracted many people’s love with the gimmick of "no sugar". However, are sugar-free moon cakes really "sugar-free"?
In fact, the "sugar-free" of sugar-free moon cakes only means that compared with ordinary sugar-containing moon cakes, refined sugar such as sucrose, maltose and fructose is not added, but sweeteners such as xylitol, maltitol and sorbitol are used instead. Moreover, the main components of mooncake dough are carbohydrates such as starch, which will eventually be decomposed into sugar.
Therefore, the so-called sugar-free moon cakes sold in the market are not "sugar-free" in the strict sense. They should be eaten in moderation, and it is best not to eat them as dinner.
Black-hearted vendors inject water and glue into crabs?
Truth: It will only accelerate the death of crabs.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the crab paste is full of yellow fat, many families have to buy some crabs, steamed or stir-fried. Careful people find that there are "pinholes" in the crab’s body, and they can’t help wondering: Is this a black-hearted vendor injecting water and glue into the crab to increase its weight?
Don’t worry, many industrial and commercial departments have done experiments, and the results show that injecting water and glue into crabs not only doesn’t increase much weight, but makes the osmotic pressure of crabs change dramatically and die quickly. Once the crab dies, it can’t be eaten, and it will taste bad. Traders can only do this by "shooting themselves in the foot".
As for the so-called "pinholes" on crabs, some media reported that most of them were caused by the collision and extrusion of crabs’ legs or spikes during transportation.
Crab plus tomato equals arsenic?
Truth: There have already been experimental falsifications.
Eliminate the worry of "flooding" crabs, and finally wait for the crabs to come to the table. Someone reminds you not to eat tomatoes. Vitamin C in tomatoes will turn organic arsenic in crabs into toxic inorganic arsenic, and reduce low-toxic pentavalent arsenic into high-toxic trivalent arsenic. Arsenic belongs to trivalent inorganic arsenic.
Under laboratory conditions, vitamin C may transform pentavalent arsenic into highly toxic trivalent arsenic. However, it is alarmist to talk about toxicity without dosage. If we want to achieve the poisoning effect, we need to eat a few kilograms of crabs seriously polluted by arsenic and more than 2.5 kilograms of tomatoes at a time. It is impossible for a normal person to eat so much at a time.
As early as 2018, CCTV’s "3.15" party had been rumored through experiments. The experimenter mixed crab roe and crab meat with mashed tomatoes to simulate the human digestive process and identify the arsenic content. The experimental results show that organic arsenic has not been converted into toxic inorganic arsenic.
Beer with seafood can easily lead to gout?
Truth: Healthy people can eat properly.
At the dinner table, beer with seafood is a "good heart" for many people. Some people discourage eating seafood and never drinking beer, otherwise it will easily lead to gout. Is it true?/You don’t say.
The initiator of gout is uric acid. When uric acid is too much to be excreted in the human body, uric acid crystals will adhere to the joints, leading to inflammatory reactions around the joints.
Beer itself is rich in purine, and alcohol can also lead to excessive uric acid metabolism. If gout patients and hyperuricemia patients eat it at the same time, it will really increase gout. However, if it is a person with normal uric acid metabolism, eating seafood and drinking beer properly will not induce gout.
Can eating pumpkin lower blood sugar?
Truth: It may not fall but rise.
Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner, there are elders who love pumpkin alone, indicating that pumpkin contains pumpkin polysaccharide, which can lower blood sugar?
Pumpkin does contain pumpkin polysaccharides that can lower blood sugar, but more are sugar and starch that can raise blood sugar. Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University has done experiments on eating pumpkins for dozens of diabetics, and found that the blood sugar of patients increased instead of falling after eating pumpkins.
In addition, the Table of Chinese Food Glycemic Index released by the Nutrition and Health Institute of China Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the glycemic index of pumpkin is as high as 75, which is a standard food with high glycemic index.
(References: Xinhuanet, CCTV Finance, Science and Technology Daily, Popular Science China, Science Rumor Platform, Beijing News, Beijing Youth Daily, Lilac Doctor, etc.)
Source: China Internet Joint Rumor Platform
Original title: "Don’t be troubled by these old" food rumors "during the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion"
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