Delicious food turns into "poison", is it really safe to eat raw seafood?

Many bloggers on the Internet often eat raw seafood in order to gain traffic. Raw marinated seafood retains its original flavor and tastes sweet, which seems to easily capture people's taste buds. But you don't know that while enjoying this delicious food, you also need to take many risks.

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Potential risks of eating raw seafood:

1. Carrying parasites

Parasites such as Anisakis and shellfish parasites. Among them, Anisakis can cause gastrointestinal discomfort, and in severe cases, it can cause sudden severe pain in the upper abdomen, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms.

2. May carry bacteria

There are a lot of bacteria in seawater, and some of them often parasitize in the seafood we eat. When eating, if the bacteria in seafood are not completely killed, it is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort and even more serious complications.

3. May carry viruses

In addition to carrying bacteria, raw seafood may also carry viruses, such as hepatitis A.

4. Heavy metal pollution

Seafood is caught from the sea, which is not only polluted by microorganisms, but also has a high content of heavy metals. These heavy metals will accumulate in the human body and are excreted very slowly. These heavy metals will cause irreversible damage to the liver, nerves, etc.

Notes on eating seafood:

1. To reduce the risk of food poisoning caused by eating seafood, pay attention to the freshness of seafood before eating, and try to choose live seafood. Shellfish need more attention before cooking. First, wash them clean, and then soak them in light salt water for about an hour to allow them to spit out the sand in the shell.

2. Seafood should not be eaten with certain fruits. Seafood is generally rich in nutrients such as protein and calcium. Fruits such as pomegranates, hawthorns, and persimmons contain tannic acid. If eaten with seafood, they will react and produce some sediment, affecting digestion. In addition, most fruits are cold in nature, and eating them with seafood will be too cold. Therefore, it is best not to eat these fruits immediately after a seafood meal. If you want to eat seafood and these fruits together, there should be at least a 2-hour interval.

3. Don’t drink beer when eating seafood. It is best not to drink a lot of beer when eating seafood, as it will cause the production of uric acid, which can cause gout.

4. Pay attention to the combination of food when eating seafood. Many people pay attention to the combination of food in their daily life, but when people enjoy seafood feasts, they only focus on seafood, eat very little vegetables and staple food, or even do not eat them. Such feasts are not only unscientific, but also easy to cause diarrhea.

People who should not eat seafood:

1. People with allergies: The protein in seafood is foreign protein and can easily cause allergies.

2. Gout and hyperuricemia: Seafood can cause increased uric acid in the joints and aggravate symptoms.

3. Pregnant women and breastfeeding women: There is a possibility that seafood with excessive mercury may be consumed, which is very harmful to babies.

4. People with poor stomachs: especially those who often have diarrhea after eating cold food. People with poor digestive tract should eat less to avoid diarrhea, stomach pain, etc.

5. Hyperthyroidism patients: Seafood is rich in iodine and will aggravate the condition.

6. People with fever or sores: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that seafood is an irritant and is not suitable for people with hot body.

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Suitable ways to eat seafood:

1. Most bacteria are afraid of high temperatures, so it is important to cook seafood thoroughly at high temperatures. Especially for seafood with shells, the cooking time must be guaranteed, generally at least 30 minutes, and the heating temperature must reach 100°C to effectively kill bacteria.

2. Raw garlic and vinegar have a certain bactericidal effect and can effectively kill bacteria in seafood. After eating seafood, you can drink hot ginger tea to neutralize the cold and reduce the discomfort caused to the gastrointestinal tract.

Authoritative doctors also say that eating raw seafood is risky and recommend that you cook it as much as possible. Moreover, for delicious seafood, cooking it also has a different flavor.