Open-air Barbecue: Food Preservation Tricks
On summer nights, street barbecue stalls are packed. Chicken wings, meatballs, squid, crab sticks… In principle, these meat products need to be refrigerated, but reporters saw that these small stalls store these ingredients in foam plastic boxes, without refrigerators. The ingredients left outside are even more frightening; they are casually placed on plates, not even covered with cling film or anything similar, before being cooked and eaten.
On this matter, reporters interviewed the stall owners. When asked how they preserve these barbecue ingredients, the stall owners all said they put ice in these boxes. However, reporters secretly checked these boxes and found no ice at all. Moreover, for strongly flavored foods like barbecue, once they spoil, adding more seasoning makes it impossible to taste the spoilage.
Therefore, a reminder for everyone: when eating at street stalls, never let your guard down. Especially for the hygiene of meat products. The most direct method is to use your eyes to see if the meat's color is normal, and your nose to smell if it has gone bad. But in the end, when faced with these roadside stalls, it's best to avoid them.
Fried Food: Reused Oil Tricks
Fried food is deeply loved by many adults and children for its crispiness, delicious taste, and appetizing aroma, but frequent consumption is extremely detrimental to health.
Here's a well-known scientific fact: eating fried food often can easily lead to cancer. High-temperature processing of fried food easily produces nitrites. Also, fried food is hard to digest, greasy, and can easily cause stomach problems. Furthermore, fried food is high in calories, contains high levels of oil and oxidized substances, and frequent consumption can easily lead to obesity, making it a dangerous food for causing hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease.
The oil used in these stalls is reused over and over. Repeated use will inevitably produce a large amount of carcinogenic substances, which instantly and sharply increases the already high risk of cancer.
If there are children eating these fried foods outside, parents must pay attention.
Watermelon Varieties: Preservation Bag Tricks
There are many clever people among the stall vendors now. Some vendors can cut watermelon very beautifully with a small knife, which has captured the hearts of countless young girls. The fully transparent, on-the-spot preparation looks very hygienic. But have you noticed that the preservation bags the vendors use for watermelon are not food-grade bags? According to regulations, all food must be packed in disposable food-grade bags. However, the bags these vendors use are recycled, reused, non-food-grade bags. The food safety issues here are truly worrying.
Summer itself is a high-risk time for food safety and hygiene issues, so when children are eating out, parents must be careful.