What do we often answer when asked "Can you cook?" I can fry eggs, I can make egg-fried rice, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, scrambled eggs with cucumbers... In short, all kinds of dishes related to eggs. But did you know that there are five foods that should not be eaten with eggs?
Eggs are one of the most nutritious foods, rich in various substances essential to the human body. However, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, everything has its complementary and opposing aspects, and eggs are no exception. Because after eating eggs, there are some things you should not do immediately. Here are 5 things you should not do right after eating eggs.
1. Eggs should not be boiled with MSG. I believe many housewives already know this. But you may not know that eggs should not be boiled with sugar, nor is it okay to eat sugar after eating eggs. Many places have the custom of eating sweet water with poached eggs. In fact, this causes the amino acids in the egg protein to form a compound with fructoselysine. This substance is not easily absorbed by the human body, so it can have adverse effects on health.
2. Eating persimmons after eating eggs can lead to food poisoning, or in more severe cases, acute gastroenteritis and lung stones. Generally speaking, eating these two foods at the same time can lead to acute gastroenteritis symptoms mainly characterized by vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Therefore, if the time of consumption is within 1-2 hours, the method of inducing vomiting can be used. Immediately dissolve 20g of salt in 200ml of boiling water, let it cool, and drink it at once. If you don't vomit, you can drink it several more times to quickly induce vomiting. Alternatively, you can mash fresh ginger, extract the juice, and take it with warm water. If it has been longer since consumption, take some laxatives as soon as possible to expel the toxic substances from the body.
3. Every morning, mothers carefully prepare breakfast for their children, hoping they can get adequate nutrition in the early morning. So many mothers will beat egg flakes into soy milk. Or let the child drink soy milk to quench their thirst after eating eggs. In fact, soy milk, which has strong nourishing properties when consumed alone, contains a special substance called trypsin. It combines with ovomucin in the egg white, causing a loss of nutrients and reducing the nutritional value of both.
4. Eggs also cannot be eaten with meats such as rabbit and goose. Li Shizhen said in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Eating eggs with rabbit meat causes diarrhea." This is because rabbit meat is sweet, cold, and sour in nature, while eggs are sweet, neutral, and slightly cold. Both contain some bioactive substances, and eating them together can cause a reaction that irritates the gastrointestinal tract, leading to diarrhea.
5. Eggs have many other taboos that are little-known because they are not commonly combined. For example, eating soft-shelled turtle meat after eating eggs can also lead to food poisoning. Soft-shelled turtle meat itself is greasy and nourishing, and people with colds or internal cold-dampness are generally advised not to eat it. In addition, it is salty and neutral in nature, so pregnant women and people with poor digestive systems right after childbirth cannot eat it.