Is drinking soy sauce harmful to your health? Thank you and God bless you.

Soy sauce is one of the condiments in the kitchen. Adding a little soy sauce when cooking can increase the flavor of food, make food more delicious and more beautiful in color. However, soy sauce should not be eaten raw. Generally speaking, you can't eat it until it is cooked. Soy sauce is a condiment with complex ingredients, which is made of bean cake, bran and soybean through fermentation and high temperature disinfection. Generally speaking, soy sauce can be eaten without heating. However, in the process of production, storage, transportation and sales, soy sauce is often contaminated due to poor sanitary conditions, and may even be mixed with a variety of pathogenic bacteria. If people eat raw soy sauce, it will be harmful to their health. In addition, soy sauce will produce more ammonia nitrogen during fermentation. The more ammonia nitrogen, the heavier the burden on the liver, which will aggravate the condition of liver disease. Moreover, raw soy sauce contains halophilic bacteria, which can survive in salty foods with high solubility, so it can also survive in soy sauce for a long time. Halophilic bacteria can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms after entering the human body. Therefore, the soy sauce should be cooked thoroughly before eating. Tips scientific experiments show that typhoid bacilli can survive for 29 days in soy sauce and dysentery bacilli can survive for 2 days in soy sauce. It is dangerous to eat unheated soy sauce.