Southerners love to eat lo mei, what eggs, braised pork, marinated bean products. However, as the weather gets warmer, many of the lo mei shops sell there are many security risks, may lead to gastrointestinal discomfort after eating. We all know that, and lo mei are original soup with some restaurant or hotel is aged sauce banner signs to attract customers. Problems will appear in this marinade, and after repeated cooking, not only will have sauce in excess of carcinogens – cholesterol oxidation products, and food will be cooked inside a long time since high heat, so that great loss of nutrients.

heating, the food usually will continue to soak in the marinade in, ranging from several hours to 10 hours, so that they taste more rich. And so have customers to buy, and only then these foods up again. As the weather is getting warmer, the biggest problem is that a long soak will breed a lot of bacteria, may also lead to food spoilage.

normal gastrointestinal vulnerable people, eating this and lo mei, it is possible Naodu Zi. Some businesses in order to allow the food to resist the warm environment for bacteria to grow, we have added a lot of salt in the sauce and soy sauce, although the strong flavor, but this lo mei with cardiovascular disease will undoubtedly be a killer. Moreover, the sauce braised pork products and add color to fresh, often even a small amount of sodium nitrite, which is a potential carcinogen, long-term excessive consumption may cause cancer.

(taken from the “Hong Kong Commercial Daily”)