Whether barbecue causes cancer, Xiaojiu calculated it a long time ago, and the conclusion is simple: before eating barbecue reaches the carcinogenic amount, you are likely to have died of exhaustion in advance, or you will die of grease.

Despite this, doctors and nutrition experts still do not recommend eating too much barbecue for two reasons: after all, the cooking method of barbecue is not the healthiest cooking method, and if it is burnt, it will indeed produce strong carcinogens.

Therefore, pay attention to 8 things when grilling. As long as you pay attention, you can ensure that the health value of barbecue is higher.

1. Pay attention to the combination of meat and vegetables

Some people enjoy eating barbecue with all meat, but this eating pattern is not good. Eating meat blindly can easily make you feel tired, and it will cause nutritional deficiencies. Imbalance may also cause bloating, abdominal pain, and indigestion.

It is recommended to wrap the barbecue with lettuce and eat it. If you are not used to eating raw vegetables, you can roast the meat in one pot and roast the vegetables in another pot. This combination can increase the absorption of vitamins and avoid constipation.

In addition, you should also eat some potato slices, lotus root slices, sweet potato slices and the like to increase dietary fiber and cleanse the intestines.

2. The meat must be cooked well

There is recent news that a man named Zhou Zhou from Zhejiang Province suffered from frequent diarrhea after eating a medium-rare steak five months ago. Go to the hospital for treatment. Under the guidance of a doctor and taking relevant drugs, a 5.2-meter-long tapeworm was pulled out.

I am not talking about this case to disgust everyone. But to remind everyone, never eat undercooked meat.

Especially seafood is likely to contain pathogenic bacteria, parasite eggs, etc. If you eat it, you may become the next Mr. Zhou.

3. Don’t bake food for too long

As mentioned above, meat must be cooked before eating. Some people go overboard and bake for too long, until the food turns black before picking it up. . This is also the wrong way to bake.

When food is burnt, on the one hand, it will lose more nutrients, such as vitamins and proteins. The worst result is that these nutrients are completely lost.

On the other hand, burnt food will produce a large amount of harmful substances: if the protein is burnt, heterocyclic amines will be produced; if the fat is burnt, benzopyrene will be produced.

These two substances are recognized as strong carcinogens in the world. When they enter the respiratory tract and digestive tract and accumulate to a certain extent, they can induce gastric cancer, intestinal cancer and other diseases.

4. Seasonings should be appropriate

Some people, in order to make the food more delicious, sprinkle various cumin powder, pepper powder, and chili powder during the barbecue process. , bake it and then dip it in other seasonings. It tastes very salty, and you need to drink a lot of water.

It is recommended not to use too much sauce when eating barbecue. When grilling, you can use garlic juice, lemon juice, and tomato sauce to marinate and grill.

Garlic has a bactericidal effect, which at least has more benefits than other sauces, helping to reduce the amount of carcinogens produced.

5. Avoid mixing tongs

Generally, barbecue restaurants will give customers two barbecue tongs, maybe to let everyone divide the work and cooperate. But Xiaojiu does not recommend that both of them use raw meat to sandwich it. Even if the raw meat has been pickled, it is still not cooked after all and may contain bacteria.

If you eat raw meat and then grilled food, bacteria will contaminate the cooked food. Eating too much may cause damage to the gastrointestinal tract.

It is recommended that you prepare 3 tongs, one for raw meat, one for vegetables, and one for grilled food, to avoid direct contact between bacteria and the human body as much as possible.

6. Drink water instead of ice beer

Barbecue is hot, ice beer is cold, one is cold and the other is hot, double stimulation, the stomach may really not be able to bear it, and it is easy to cause Gastrointestinal discomfort, diarrhea and other problems.

Secondly, in the process of eating barbecue, you need to drink a lot of water. Beer obviously does not quench your thirst.

Furthermore, beer + seafood barbecue, because they are high-purine foods, can easily lead to gout. Healthy people are fine if they eat occasionally, but gout patients should avoid drinking beer while eating barbecue, otherwise it will make things worse.

7. Don’t barbecue too frequently

Some people rely on their strong physical endurance to eat barbecue several times a month. Although it doesn't seem to be a problem on the surface, from a health perspective, it is recommended to avoid eating barbecue too frequently.

Especially for people who are not skilled in barbecue techniques and easily burn food, they should eat it no more than 1 to 2 times a month. Otherwise, excessive intake of benzopyrene may not cause cancer, but it will definitely harm the body.

8. Eat fruit after eating

When eating barbecue, don’t eat too much and make some stomach space for fruit. After barbecue, eat some fruits, such as apples, bananas, pears, oranges, etc., which can inhibit the adverse effects of the carcinogen benzopyrene and protect the gastrointestinal tract.

As long as you remember two words: in moderation, there is no problem eating barbecue.