
Reader Ala Liu asked me on his face:
I would like to ask the professor. There is a news report "Black sugar milk" that is super high. Medical: These people cannot drink it. Because the family has diabetes, they have always focused on reducing the essence of sugar (saccharide). However, recently, the winter has been replenished. I often cook some brown sugar ginger tea at home. Should I pay attention?In order to avoid being biased, I had to copy the full text of it as follows:
{99Recently, a "brown sugar hot" has been triggered. All beverages that are tied to brown sugar are always sold particularly hotly. Therefore, some stores have also featured names such as "drunk every day" and "working staff" to attract customers. However, Huang Hongting, a physician at Kaohsiung Municipal Hospital of Central Hospital, said that brown sugar is just "fried and burnt sucrose". Although it is beneficial to gas, suffocation, digest food, eliminate phlegm and treat cough, it is still a kind of sucrose.
Wang Ziyun, a family doctor at Chengda Hospital, said that although brown sugar does have more minerals and other nutrients than other sugars, many businesses on the market use the words "raising" and "must be prepared for women during menstruation", which makes consumers mistakenly think that the more they drink, the more they will be. However, in fact, brown sugar is a food containing acrylamide. People with intraocular diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and symptom are not recommended to eat it. Generally, people should not eat more than 50 grams a day.
In addition, Fang Yuwei, the attending physician of the Department of Bone, said that taking an adult weighing 60 kilograms, taking 1.2 grams of acrylamide every day will get sick for one month; if you take a cup of 700c.c. of brown sugar drinks on the market as an example, drinking one cup a day for one and a half months may cause doubts about neurology, reproductive toxicity and carcinogenicity. It is recommended that the public drink less.
This news quoted three doctors in total, which can be said to be of great importance. However, there is a problem with the part about "acrylamide" mentioned by two of them. (Appendix: "acrylamide" in English is acrylamide, which is also translated as "acrylamide".)
The first question is that I cannot find any English language about "broken sugar is a food containing acrylamide", so I have a reservation about the term "broken sugar contains acrylamide".
The Chinese language about "brown sugar contains acrylamide" first appeared in July 2015. That was a report published in a well-known health magazine, titled "Black sugar test, all carcinogenic acrylamide was detected." It sounded that the magazine examined 19 packs of brown sugar from different sources sold in Taiwan and found that they contained between 30 and 2740 ppb of acrylamide. It also said: "Many animals have tested and confirmed that acrylamide is reproductive, neurologic, genotoxic and carcinogenic. The tested animals have esophageal cancer, brain tumor, thyroid cancer or kidney cancer, and many organs in the body are affected."
However, medical studies have never proven that acrylamide is carcinogenic to humans, let alone the disease mentioned above. What's more, brown sugar is not eaten as food or snacks, so of course it really contains acrylamide, which should also be diluted to the point of "harmless". (Please note: At present, I don't know what is a dose of harmful to people)
In fact, a lot of things that are taken for food or snacks, such as bread, potato strips, oil strips, etc., all contain more acrylamide. Then, why is it dangerous for magazines not to report these livelihood foods?
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The second problem with that news was that a doctor said: "People with intraocular diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and gravid syndrome are not recommended to eat it." But what he meant is that people who do not have insulin-related diseases can eat it?
The third problem with the news was that another doctor said, "There may be doubts about neurologic, reproductive toxicity and carcinogenicity." However, this fact is actually just like the report from "Kangjian", and it is just talking but not practicing. Think about it, although they all raised "doubts", do they dare to tell everyone not to eat bread, potatoes, oils and other foods in the livelihood? That is, saying it is equivalent to not saying it. It's just creating news and paying for advertising fees. It is of no help to the health of the people.
However, when I was searching for information about brown sugar, I also saw a lot of articles advocating eating brown sugar, saying that brown sugar can regulate the cycle of the month, promote lactation, beauty and freckle removal, revitalize blood, promote kidney and laxative, replenish energy, detoxify, replenish blood, and other amazing effects.
You should know that brown sugar is still sucrose, and excessive sugar extraction is harmful to health. What brown sugar can really provide is its special flavor, not the effects of detoxification, blood replenishment and other nonsense bird eggs.
In short, for foods and drinks containing brown sugar, we should worry about not acrylamide, but sucrose itself. You should know that there is no recommended limit dose for acrylamide, while sucrose has (37.5 grams per day for men and 25 grams for women).
Original text: Brown sugar, infused, poisonous?