Eat self-heating food, please maintain the correct "posture"

Original title: Eating self-heating food, please maintain the correct "posture"

The main components of the self-heating food heating package include sodium carbonate, iron powder, aluminum powder, coke powder, quicklime, etc.

—— Ruan Guangfeng, Director of Science and Technology Department of Kexin Food and Nutrition Information Exchange Center

◎Reporter Zhang Yun

This week, some areas of our country ushered in a wave of cooling, which really made everyone feel the "cold spring".

Especially noteworthy is the recent popularity of hot drinks on the Internet, from coffee and milk, to milk tea, functional beverages, and red wine, all types of beverages can be self-heated.

However, safety accidents related to self-heating food also occur from time to time, causing many people to eat with fear.

Follow the instructions and do not eat in a small environment

First, let us understand what self-heating food is.

Self-heating food comes with a heating pack, and its temperature will rise when it encounters water, and the maximum holding time is about 3 hours.

"The main components of the self-heating food heating package include sodium carbonate, iron powder, aluminum powder, coke powder, quicklime, etc.

However, since its listing, incidents of explosions of self-heating food have occurred frequently due to improper operation.

In this regard, Ruan Guangfeng said that as long as the operation is regulated, self-heating food will not explode.

Therefore, the fire department reminds consumers that before eating self-heating food, they must read the product instructions and strictly follow the product instructions, especially not to eat them in closed and narrow environments such as cars and train cars.

Single nutrition, excessive sodium content, not suitable for long-term consumption

Since self-heating food is convenient to eat, many people eat self-heating food regularly.

However, there is a saying on the Internet: When heating self-heating food, the heat source is in direct contact with the food.

“Self-heating food only uses its own heat source to reheat the food.

Regarding whether this kind of food will cause bowel cancer, Feng Lin, deputy chief physician of the Endocrinology Department of Ningde Hospital, Fujian Medical University, said that the cause of bowel cancer is very complicated, and the academic community is not yet fully aware of its pathogenesis.

Although eating self-heating food will not cause bowel cancer, as a member of convenience food, self-heating food still has the problems of single nutrition and excessive sodium content, so it is not suitable for long-term consumption.

In this regard, Liao Xiaojun, a professor at the School of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, introduced that taking self-heating hot pot as an example, the varieties of dishes of major brands are very similar.

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