Can I still eat overnight meals? Nutritionist: Just handle it properly and forward it to your family after reading it.

In three meals a day, everyone attaches great importance to dinner, so the dishes in dinner are very rich, but it is easy to have leftovers. Although we all know that overnight meals are bad for our health, the older generation are used to saving, so they still eat them often. Can people still eat overnight meals? In fact, as long as it is handled properly, people can still eat rice in moderation overnight.

What effect does overnight meal have on the body?

Overnight meal actually refers to the meal that has not been finished at dinner, and it will continue to be eaten the next day. Because it is more convenient to eat overnight meals, and I don't know why everyone has the illusion that leftovers always seem to taste better.

However, after the leftovers are left for a long time, it is easy to produce some harmful substances, such as nitrite, so people who eat them often may do great harm to their health.

People often eat meals that have been left for a long time, which will also increase the probability of cancer. Because nitrite is highly carcinogenic, other substances harmful to human body may also enter food, and people will get worse after eating it.

Moreover, many bacteria are almost invisible to the human eye, such as putrefying bacteria, which often appear in overnight meals, and the acidic gas produced by such bacteria will also increase appetite. Although it is harmful, the human body likes this taste very much, so why do many people have the illusion that eating overnight meals seems to be better? It is because of putrid bacteria.

Overnight meals may also cause some gastrointestinal diseases. In fact, it is best not to eat leftovers, even if they are not overnight meals, as long as they are stored for more than 6 hours.

However, after rice was heated again overnight, the vitamin content of rice itself was actually destroyed. After eating the heated leftovers, people will increase the burden on the stomach, make digestion worse, and may cause gastrointestinal diseases after a long time.

There is also an overnight meal, which actually tastes bad. Because of lack of water, it may become very hard. Moreover, in the process of heating, some rice may deteriorate, and the main component contained in rice is actually starch, which we all know. When the temperature exceeds 60 degrees Celsius, starch may swell and become mushy. This substance is difficult to decompose after entering the human body, and the human body's ability to digest aged starch is also poor. Long-term consumption will lead to many symptoms of gastrointestinal discomfort, especially for the elderly, and the digestive function itself is very fragile.

How to deal with overnight meals?

First of all, don't store rice directly in the original pot. You can put it in a fresh-keeping box and then store it in the fresh-keeping layer of the refrigerator, but pay attention to the fact that the fresh-keeping box should be covered.

And when eating overnight meals, you should also pay attention when heating, and you must ensure that it is completely cooked. It is best to make rice soup or fried rice, so as to ensure that every grain of rice is cooked.

Also, when you put the rice in the crisper, you can stir it first and then save it after it is completely dispersed. You can also wait until the rice is completely cold before putting it on the dining table, and then put it in the refrigerator when it is completely cold, so that the taste of the rice will be better.

In a word, for everyone's health, we should try to eat as little as possible, whether it is overnight dishes or overnight meals. If you keep leftover rice, you'd better pay attention to its storage environment and temperature, and don't put it directly at room temperature. You can put rice in the refrigerator and cover it with a fresh-keeping cover to reduce the harm to your stomach.