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With the accelerating pace of life, many workers often take advantage of the weekend break for a procurement, especially vegetables will buy back a week later, stored in the refrigerator in order to facilitate everyone knows that eating vegetables stored for a few days is very dangerous, experts recommend and advise, fresh vegetables stored in the refrigerator period not more than three days, otherwise not conducive to good health.
Experts suggest that members of the prolonged storage of vegetables in the refrigerator, very dangerous, but also more dangerous from their own vegetables contain nitrate, nitrite itself as nontoxic, but after a period of time in storage, enzymes and bacteria, nitrate is reduced to nitrite and nitrite is a toxic substances in the human body and its protein binding material, the formation of nitrite-carcinogenic substances salts.
Storage vegetables will not only produce harmful substances, but also in the loss of nutrients. Test shows that in the 30 ° C storage room for 24 hours, green leafy vegetables in almost all of the loss of vitamin C, the content of nitrite increased several times.
Therefore, fresh vegetables stored in the refrigerator period should not exceed three days. All have the yellow, wilting, water-soaked, decomposed vegetables are not for human consumption, so as not to affect the physical health.
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