Taking care of our health through food goes far beyond choosing a balanced diet. It also appeals to the area of ??food safety, avoiding spoiled foods or foods with expired best-before dates. Likewise, it includes good practices in the kitchen, both in hygiene and cooking.
And our food safety begins in the supermarket, since some products should not be put in the shopping cart. A food engineer and a nutritionist review a series of foods they would never eat and the reasons.
Mariana Zapién has published on her Instagram profile (@ingdetusalimentos, with more than 540 thousand followers) a video where she shares three things that she would never eat as a food engineer. The first of them are meats or canned products whose packaging looks inflated, “this indicates the growth of pathogenic microorganisms that are gas producers and, although they could be eliminated with high temperatures, there are many microorganisms that are producers of very dangerous toxins that cannot be “They eliminate even with high temperatures.”
Secondly, he points out the raw egg: “The egg naturally has microorganisms that could make us sick, such as salmonella, and cooking helps make the proteins more bioavailable to the body and eliminate these microorganisms so that we do not get salmonellosis.” , he warns. “So there is absolutely no advantage to consuming it raw,” insists the expert.
Lastly, aim for poorly disinfected strawberries. “Remember that vinegar does not have effects on all microorganisms of importance to public health, so it cannot be considered a general disinfectant, much less when mixed with baking soda,” he explains that “the correct thing to do is to disinfect them with disinfectants.” efficient such as colloidal silver, chlorine or citrus extract.”
Regarding the previous content, nutritionist Ivonne Sánchez has published her own version on her Instagram profile (@healthy.ivonne, with 660 thousand followers), listing three things she would never buy in the supermarket. She begins with an element similar to the one mentioned in Mariana Zepién’s video, since she states that she “would never buy meat, chicken or fish with an inflated package, because it indicates the presence of gas produced by bacteria. That is to say, there are already microorganisms in there,” she emphasizes.
Nor would you put chicken or any poorly stored meat in your shopping basket. “By not maintaining the cold chain, they could be exposed to conditions that favor the growth of bacteria and harmful microorganisms,” he says, giving the example of stacked meat trays where he notes that those at the top are not as well refrigerated as the closest ones. to ice, which can compromise the flavor and texture of the food.
Finally, I would never buy a dented can either. “The cans are perfectly sealed, so that oxygen does not enter them and bacteria do not reproduce; when the can is damaged, it can allow air to pass through, causing the proliferation of microorganisms,” he concludes.
