How can individuals maintain food safety? Use these two methods to prevent it from the source

Starch sausage made from chicken bone paste, preserved vegetable pork with preserved vegetables made from lymph node meat...Recently, safety issues have been exposed for these everyday delicacies, once again causing great indignation and concern about food safety among people.

Faced with frequent and difficult-to-prevent food safety issues, how can we strengthen our self-protection?

Food can be divided into five categories, namely, cereals and tubers, vegetables and fruits, livestock and poultry, eggs and milk, soybeans and nuts, and pure energy foods (vegetable oils, starch, and edible sugar). The State Administration for Market Regulation has a more detailed and diverse catalog of food production licenses.

Food science knowledge is vast and there is no end to learning, but if you can apply scientific methods, grasp the key points, and keep the essentials, you can safeguard your personal food safety.

"From a vast expanse of water, take only one scoop to drink." By using scientific methods, strengthening your own food safety skills, the effect of preventing "poisonous food" will be very obvious. Based on the understanding and interpretation of scientific principles, we can look at two methods and techniques to strengthen personal food safety protection.

First, when eating, eat more natural foods and less artificially processed foods.

The ingredients of "Heavenly Crafts" such as beans and grains, etc., are related to the nature of the universe from the source. We know that the basic elements of matter are hydrogen and carbon, which are brought from the magical Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. So far, humans have not been able to completely artificially create a hydrogen atom. The core of life is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which is a very complex organic compound controlled by complex genetic information. This is the power of nature, and humans have not yet completely cracked it. In other words, if there is no seed, humans cannot directly artificially create a grain of rice. Therefore, the superiority of "Heavenly Crafts" ingredients is irreplaceable.

This type of food has three main advantages:

First, it is rich in nutrition, containing many phytochemicals such as saponins, flavonoids, antioxidants, etc. These substances enter the human body and undergo anabolic metabolism and reorganization as needed. For example, carotene is converted into vitamin A, and the human body can also adjust the balance by itself. This is a fat-soluble vitamin A tablet. If taken in excess, it will cause poisoning , but it is rare to be poisoned by eating too much carrots.

Second, it contains bioactive substances. Modern scientific research shows that there are 60,000 to 100,000 kinds of natural bioactive substances. Bioactive substances have a good effect on human antioxidant, immune regulation, and cholesterol reduction. Under normal feeding conditions, most natural ingredients in general food are harmless to organisms. However, artificial processed foods go through multiple production and processing links, and use additives, and the activity of the substances is basically lost.

Third, natural plant-based ingredients will not cause excessive hormone levels as long as they are not consumed in excess. This is because they are hormone-like and can be converted into hormones when needed. However, when the hormone level in the human body reaches a just-right state, the hormone-like structure remains the same. However, artificially processed simple chemically synthesized hormones or animal hormones will cause hormonal imbalance if they accumulate too much in the human body. It can be seen that God-made natural ingredients are safe to eat.

Second , when eating, eat a little bit of a variety of foods.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, the earliest existing medical classic in my country, clearly explains diet and health preservation, proposing: "Five grains for nourishment, five fruits for assistance, five animals for benefit, and five vegetables for filling. Take them together with their flavors to replenish essence and qi." The "four fives" of food structure mentioned here are highly consistent with the "Reference Intake of Nutrients for a Balanced Diet for Chinese Residents (2023 Edition)" advocated by the Chinese Nutrition Society, and deeply reflect the principle of food diversity.

The principle of food diversity is of fundamental value to the human body, and its mechanism has three key points:

First, the human body consists of at least 60 to 80 elements. Protein, fat, carbohydrates, various vitamins, and minerals are all necessary for life metabolism. Any excess or deficiency of any one of them will cause metabolic abnormalities.

Second, the physical elements of food have synergistic or antagonistic (mutually inhibiting) effects on each other. For example, when the concentration of calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium ions in human blood is kept in an appropriate ratio, the normal excitement of muscles can be maintained. When the calcium-containing food in the diet is excessive, it will affect the absorption of iron and zinc, and excessive zinc intake will inhibit iron.

Third, the range between the daily physiological demand and the toxic dose of various elements in the human body is relatively narrow, and it is difficult to grasp the degree. For example, the 7 major elements that the human body needs, such as sulfur, sodium, chlorine, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, potassium, etc., only need 100 mg per day, while the daily demand for 8 trace elements, manganese, cobalt, copper, iodine, chromium, iron, zinc, and selenium, is less than 0.01% of body weight. If you lose self-control at ordinary times, then high uric acid, high blood sugar and other diseases will come to you.

Based on the above three key mechanisms, it is difficult for ordinary people to remember the nutritional composition table of hundreds of ingredients, and it is not easy to control them. So, remember this trick: eat a little bit of everything, and only eat a little bit of each. It is possible to stop after tasting a little. If you do this, you can achieve "immunity to all poisons."

Of course, there are many other scientific methods and techniques for eating. For example: eat more foods that are good for the stomach and less foods that are offensive to the stomach; eat seasonal ingredients and less foods that are out of season; eat as little of the foods you don’t like as possible and be more self-disciplined about the foods you like, to prevent partial eclipse, etc. These are all effective and good methods.