The latest Haidian District food safety bulletin reminds consumers that seven food pairings may cause illness, and even cancer. First, seafood and beer can easily induce gout
Seafood is a food containing two components: purine and nucleotide, while beer is rich in vitamin B1, an important catalyst that breaks down these two components. If you eat seafood while drinking beer, it will promote the combination of harmful substances in the body, increase the uric acid content in the human bloodstream, and thus form difficult-to-excrete urinary tract stones. If your own metabolism is problematic, eating seafood while drinking beer can easily lead to a sharp increase in blood uric acid levels, inducing gout, and even leading to gouty nephropathy, gouty arthritis, etc. Second, ham and lactic acid drinks can easily cause cancer
People who often eat sandwiches with yogurt for breakfast should be cautious. Ham, bacon, etc. in sandwiches, when eaten with lactic acid drinks (containing organic acids), can easily cause cancer. This is because, to preserve processed meat products like sausages, ham, bacon, and cured meats, food manufacturers add nitrates to prevent food spoilage and the growth of botulinum. When nitrates come into contact with organic acids (lactic acid, citric acid, tartaric acid, malic acid, etc.), they are converted into a carcinogen—nitrosamine. Therefore, do not often eat such processed meats to avoid increasing the risk of cancer. Third, radishes and oranges can easily induce goiter
Radishes produce a thyroid-inhibiting substance called thiocyanate. If you eat large amounts of oranges, apples, grapes, and other fruits at the same time, the flavonoids in these fruits are broken down by bacteria in the intestines and then converted into thiocyanate, which inhibits thyroid function, thereby inducing goiter. Fourth, eggs and soy milk reduce protein absorption
Raw soy milk contains trypsin inhibitors, which can inhibit the activity of human proteases, affecting the digestion and absorption of protein in the human body. The egg white contains a viscous protein that can bind with the trypsin in soy milk, hindering the breakdown of protein and thus reducing the human body's absorption rate of protein. Fifth, milk and chocolate can easily cause diarrhea
Milk is rich in protein and calcium, while chocolate contains oxalic acid. If the two are eaten together, the calcium in the milk will combine with the oxalic acid in the chocolate to form insoluble calcium oxalate. After consumption, it is not only absorbed but can also cause symptoms like diarrhea and dry hair, affecting growth and development. Sixth, fruits and seafood are not easily digested
If you eat fruits like grapes, hawthorns, pomegranates, and persimmons while eating seafood, symptoms such as vomiting, bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea may occur. This is because these fruits contain tannic acid, which, when it encounters the protein in seafood, will precipitate and solidify, forming a substance that is not easily digested. People should wait at least 4 hours after eating seafood before eating these fruits. Seventh, spinach and tofu can easily lead to stone formation