The monitoring results of the food pollution monitoring network of the Ministry of Health show that the acrylamide content in starch foods processed at high temperature (such as fried potato chips, fried potato chips, etc.) is high, and the acrylamide content in potato fried foods is four times higher than that in cereal fried foods on average. China residents eat more fried food, which has a large exposure. Long-term low-dose exposure is potentially harmful.
Therefore, the Ministry of Health advises residents to avoid cooking starchy food for a long time or at high temperature in their daily lives. Advocate reasonable nutrition, balance diet, change the eating habits of fried and high-fat foods, and reduce the possible health hazards caused by acrylamide.
March 2 this year? The Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations warned the public to pay attention to acrylamide in food and called for measures to reduce the acrylamide content in food to ensure food safety. The warning issued by the Ministry of Health yesterday was based on this.
Acrylamide is a chemical substance, which is the raw material for producing polyacrylamide and can be used for industrial purposes such as sewage purification. Starch food is easy to produce acrylamide when cooked at high temperature (> 120℃). The results of animal experiments show that acrylamide is a possible carcinogen. Epidemiological observation of occupational exposed people showed that long-term low-dose exposure to acrylamide caused drowsiness, mood and memory changes, hallucinations and tremors, accompanied by peripheral neuropathy (glove-like sensation, sweating and muscle weakness). Although the effect of acrylamide on human health needs further study, this issue should be paid attention to.
The human body can be exposed to acrylamide through the digestive tract, respiratory tract, skin mucosa and other ways. Therefore, food is considered as the main source of acrylamide for human beings. In addition, the human body may also be exposed to acrylamide through smoking and other ways.
expert opinion/advice
Oncologist: "Carcinogenesis" has long been conclusive.
"Academics have long concluded that fried food will cause cancer." Yesterday, Meng of China Cancer Research Foundation told reporters that fried food, barbecue and other foods are far more harmful to human health than Sudan Red, which is well known recently: "Just like smoking, long-term intake of fried food will cause a variety of tumor diseases."
Academician Sun Yan, a famous oncologist, once said in an interview that western fast food is one of the killers of human cancer. In fact, not only French fries, potato chips and other western foods, but also fried foods such as oil cakes and fried dough sticks that China people have eaten for many years can't get rid of the "carcinogenic" black label.
Nutrition expert: It doesn't hurt to eat occasionally.
Experts from the Nutrition Department of Union Medical College Hospital told reporters that no matter how harmful acrylamide is to human body, eating fried food occasionally is not very harmful to human body, but this process is a "toxic" long-term savings process, just like smoking may induce lung cancer. Long-term consumption will definitely pose a great threat to health. In addition, fried food contains extremely high calories and fat, and long-term intake of this high fat will also lead to obesity or some related diseases, such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia and so on.