The harm of eating vermicelli

In China, vermicelli can be found almost everywhere in the country. Due to different production locations, the thickness of vermicelli varies slightly from region to region. Vermicelli is mostly made from sweet potato flour. Some areas will add beans and grains. Its nutritional value is also relatively high, but the premise is that it is made from real sweet potato flour. Many vermicelli on the market now contain additives, and frequent consumption is harmful to the body. The following is a detailed introduction for everyone, let’s take a look.

Sweet potato vermicelli is a strip-shaped pasta made from sweet potatoes and is harmless to the human body. However, there are some unscrupulous businessmen in the market who add industrial alum into the production of sweet potato vermicelli. This practice makes processing more convenient and also increases palatability. However, sweet potato vermicelli mixed with industrial alum is chewy but also very harmful. Since the chemical composition of alum is potassium aluminum sulfate, it contains aluminum ions. Excessive intake of aluminum ions will affect the body's absorption of iron, calcium and other components, leading to osteoporosis, anemia, and even affecting the development of nerve cells, causing symptoms such as Alzheimer's disease, memory loss, and intellectual decline. In addition, alum is also used in the normal production of sweet potato vermicelli, so you need to eat less of it.

And because sweet potato vermicelli is made from sweet potatoes, it also inherits some of the taboos of sweet potatoes. Therefore, sweet potato vermicelli and persimmons should not be eaten at the same time in a short period of time. If you eat a lot, they should be separated by at least five hours. If we eat them at the same time, the sugar in the sweet potato vermicelli will ferment in the stomach, which will increase the secretion of gastric acid, and react with the tannins and pectin in the persimmons to precipitate and condense, forming lumps. In severe cases, it can cause gastrointestinal bleeding or gastric ulcers. If you feel stomach discomfort, you must go to the hospital for a gastroscopy to see if you have gastric bleeding or gastric ulcer. Therefore, sweet potato vermicelli and persimmons are not suitable to be eaten together.

Although sweet potato vermicelli tastes good and has high nutritional value, there are certain hazards and taboos when eating sweet potato vermicelli, so we need to be careful. First of all, we need to eat sweet potato vermicelli in moderation, and sweet potato vermicelli is not suitable to be eaten with persimmons, so that we can eat sweet potato vermicelli more healthily.