Principle of microwave cooking
Cooking safety in microwave oven
However, because the electromagnetic wave of microwave is a kind of radiation, many people are worried that these foods will be affected by radiation, and eating them will increase the chance of getting cancer. In fact, this is just a misunderstanding of microwave cooking. Amplitude rays can include heat energy, radio waves, X-rays, infrared rays, nuclear radiation, etc., and microwave is one kind of heat energy rays, which transfers heat energy to food and causes food to have a heating reaction, and the properties of food will not be affected in any way. Although microwave can harm human body and cause burns, it is still not the same as radiation infection. Therefore, microwave heating will not cause food to contain carcinogens.
In this case, office workers can rest assured and continue to enjoy delicious lunch.
■ Microwave heating food may cause cancer.
Whether the microwave oven, which is indispensable in modern family life, will harm people's health has always been controversial. A British study found that eating food heated by microwave oven can destroy human cells and immune system, and even lead to cancer, so "treat your body like a Rolls Royce, not a trash can". However, the Hong Kong Radiation Protection Society retorts that the radiation from microwave ovens will not spread to people's bodies through food.
Data forbidden 10 year.
The British "Sunday Mail" quoted a magazine called "What Doctors Don't Tell You" yesterday. The results show that eating food heated by microwave oven will change the blood, cells and immune system of human body and may cause cancer. The relevant data was allegedly banned by Swiss courts for ten years.
The report also quoted experts in charge of related research as warning that human milk should not be heated by microwave oven, otherwise the unique resistance level of human milk to infants will be reduced, and foods containing additives and artificial colors, such as pizza, waffles, potato chips, etc., will release a lot of chemicals after being heated by microwave oven, which is harmful to human body.
At the same time, many breads and breakfast cereals on the market claim that they can be heated in the microwave oven together with the packaging bag, and the packaging paper is covered with a layer of wax. When these ingredients are heated by microwave, 60% of the wax will be transferred to the food, and the wax will be "eaten" when eating these foods.
Radiation will not enter the human body.
The expert even described that eating more beneficial food treats your body like Rolls Royce, while eating food heated by microwave oven treats your body like a trash can.
However, Cao Xian, president of Hong Kong Radiation Protection Society, disagreed, because microwave ovens only use non-ionizing radiation energy to strengthen water molecules in food and raise the temperature to cook food.
She went on to say that food cooked in any way will change the nutritional molecules of food. The purpose of heating is to kill bacteria in food, and then provide heat energy and nutrients for life through food. When the door of the microwave oven is opened, the microwave will not be transmitted to the human body through food.