Is eating sauerkraut bad for your health?

Eating sauerkraut often is not good for your health. In real life, many people like to eat sauerkraut, because sauerkraut can stimulate appetite, promote digestion and increase appetite. Moreover, many snacks and delicacies will add sauerkraut, such as the famous pickled fish. The older generation will pickle sauerkraut at home as a daily supplementary food, and sometimes cook food with sauerkraut to increase the delicacy of food. But eating sauerkraut for a long time will have many effects on the body. Let's look at the disadvantages of eating sauerkraut for a long time.

First, what are the disadvantages of eating sauerkraut often? 1, easy to cause cancer.

In fact, the control of temperature, humidity and time in the pickling process of sauerkraut needs to be very precise. However, the way of pickling sauerkraut at home will lead to the breeding of many harmful bacteria in the pickling process, and long-term intake of harmful bacteria will easily lead to physical discomfort. In addition, pickled cabbage will produce nitrite in the curing process, which is a carcinogen, and long-term intake of nitrite will cause cancer. Therefore, the safety of sauerkraut made by ourselves is not high and it is easy to affect the body.

2, it is easy to generate calcium oxalate.

Chinese sauerkraut contains a lot of oxalic acid and calcium. Because of its high acidity, calcium oxalate will be produced in the human intestine after eating, which is not conducive to excretion and is easily absorbed by the human body and then enters the kidney. The kidney mainly plays an excretory function, and the crystals of calcium oxalate are excreted through urine. Long-term precipitation of calcium oxalate in kidney may easily lead to kidney calculi, and may also lead to urinary calculi in other parts. Therefore, people who often eat sauerkraut are prone to kidney calculi, and may also induce urinary system diseases.

3. destroy vitamin C.

Chinese cabbage is the raw material for making sauerkraut. During the curing process, a large amount of vitamin C was destroyed, resulting in a decrease in nutrients. Moreover, sauerkraut also contains a lot of organic acids such as nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and oxalic acid. Long-term consumption will lead to acidic environment in digestive tract, lead to too many acidic substances in stomach, form gastric ulcer and lead to stomach pain.

4, leading to the formation of stones.

Eating too much sauerkraut is not conducive to the absorption of vitamin C. Lack of vitamin C will lead to the precipitation of calcium oxalate in the kidney or reduce the ability to expel stones, which will directly lead to the formation of stones and increase the probability of stone formation.

Secondly, without vitamin C, the immune function of the human body will also be damaged, and it is easy to catch diseases, especially colds. So don't eat sauerkraut in large quantities or for a long time, so as not to affect your health.

Second, who can't eat sauerkraut? 1, gout patients.

Gout patients are not recommended to eat sauerkraut. Because the salt content of sauerkraut is too high, gout patients generally eat less food with high salt content.

2. Patients with gastric ulcer should eat less sauerkraut.

3, pregnant women should not eat sauerkraut. Nitrite is not good for babies.

As a special dish, sauerkraut can only be eaten occasionally, but it is definitely not good to eat it often. Sauerkraut was produced in the era of lack of materials and storage means. It is not an ordinary vegetable at all. After pickled sauerkraut, vitamins and phytochemicals will be lost, leaving only dietary fiber and minerals, and the nutritional value will naturally be greatly reduced.