5 Foods That Are Harmful To Health When Heated

Karen Lennox Author: Karen Lennox Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: November 18, 2022
5 Foods That Are Harmful To Health When Heated

When heated, substances harmful to the body can form in food, which can cause damage not only to the digestive organs.

Doctors claim that once cooked and reheated food loses many of its beneficial qualities, and sometimes it completely turns into harmful food.

In the process of thermal processing of products, a part of vitamins and valuable macroelements is lost, and after each heating, they become less and less. But the worst thing is that at the same time substances harmful to the body can be formed in the dishes, which can cause damage not only to the digestive organs. Therefore, doctors do not recommend reheating food, especially food made from certain products.

Such products include:

 

1. Beetroot . This root vegetable completely loses its vitamins upon further heating. But should it be done at all? After all, beetroot can bring pleasure with its taste even in a cold form, enriching our diet with substances useful for health, and not only with fiber.

 

2. Meat . This product loses a significant amount of its taste qualities during additional heat treatment. But the main thing is that easily digestible proteins are broken down. Since meat belongs to long and difficult to digest products, with the loss of valuable proteins, it turns into food that is dangerous for digestive organs. If you are going to reheat a meat dish over and over again, then don't be surprised when you have signs of metabolic disorders, flatulence, a feeling of heaviness in the stomach or other digestive disorders.

 

 

3. Mushrooms . Like meat, mushrooms contain proteins. So, repeated heat treatment turns them into a product harmful to human health. But this can be avoided if you eat previously cooked mushrooms in a cold form. Especially since you won't lose anything in terms of taste.

 

4. Chicken eggs and dishes made from them . Do not reheat an already boiled egg or a previously prepared omelet. Otherwise, the useful microelements contained in them will remain in small quantities, but very harmful toxins and carcinogenic substances will appear in the dish. As a result, instead of benefit, such food can harm your metabolism and can even cause food poisoning.

 

5. Potatoes . Dishes made from this vegetable become harmful when heated repeatedly. The reason for this phenomenon is starch, which potatoes are rich in. Starch is considered beneficial for health, as it contributes to the elimination of excessive cholesterol cells in the blood. But, when potato dishes are heated, starch breaks down under the influence of high temperatures. Without starch, a potato dish becomes, at least, useless for the human body. 

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