Is iron pot harmful to human body? The truth you need to know

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Recently, the third season of China on the tip of the tongue is hot again. Personally, I feel more passionate than watching the Spring Festival Gala. Especially when I saw an iron pot, I followed Daliu and bought an iron pot. But my family has not used the iron pot since a long time ago, and I'm worried about whether the iron pot will harm the human body. After all, there are four old people and two children in my family, The children are very young, and we pay great attention to healthy diet. Nowadays, the whole China is buying this iron pot, so I'm excited to buy it. Now my worry is that the rust of the iron pot will do harm to human body? With more than one question, I searched a lot of information. The following is about the relationship between iron pot and human health. Let me give you an analysis.

Is iron pot harmful to human body? The truth you need to know

1. First of all, we need to understand the concept that iron pot is a traditional cooking utensil for cooking food. Generally, it does not contain toxic substances, but it will oxidize when it meets with water for a long time. The main varieties of iron pot are printing pot, ear pot, pan, oil pot, pancake pot, etc. Iron pot is mainly composed of iron, but also contains a small amount of sulfur, phosphorus, manganese, silicon, carbon and so on. 2. Iron is one of the essential elements of the human body. Iron deficiency will affect the health and development of the human body. The biggest impact is iron deficiency anemia. The World Health Organization survey shows that about 50% of girls, 20% of adult women and 40% of pregnant women will have iron deficiency anemia. Iron supplement is a process of supplementing necessary and proper amount of inorganic iron or organic iron compounds for human body through food or special nutrients, so as to achieve the purpose of physical fitness, prevention or adjuvant treatment of diseases. Iron supplement is a process of supplementing necessary and proper amount of inorganic iron or organic iron compound for human body through food or medicine, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening body, preventing or adjuvant treatment of diseases. So we are short of iron, can we use iron pot to supplement iron? Let's see what the experts say.

The iron pot can be divided into raw iron pot and cooked iron pot: the raw iron pot is made of gray iron melting and mold casting; Cooked iron pot is made of black iron sheet forging or hand hammering, with the performance of thin billet and fast heat transfer. At present, some people say that iron pot can supplement iron, but there is no experiment to prove that cooking in iron pot can supplement iron for people. Nutritionists believe that cooking in an iron pot is better for people with hemochromatosis than cooking in an iron pot. But if you have a new iron pot at home, how can you use it to benefit your body?

Ordinary iron pot is easy to rust, the human body absorbs too much iron oxide, that is, after rust, it will cause harm to the liver... Therefore, when people use iron pot, they need to abide by some use principles, in order to be healthy. These principles are: 1, after frying a dish, brush a pot, and then fry a dish. Every time after the meal is finished, the inner wall of the pot must be cleaned and the pot must be dried to avoid rust and iron oxide harmful to human health. 2. Try not to make soup in an iron pan. 3. Do not use iron pot to hold vegetables overnight, because iron pot will dissolve iron under acidic conditions and destroy vitamin C in vegetables. 4. Try to use less detergent when washing the pot. If there is slight rust in the pot, it can be cleaned with vinegar. 5. It is not suitable to use the iron pot with serious rust, black slag and black skin. In addition, the iron pot should not be used to boil medicine, should not be used to boil mung beans. The iron pot is easy to rust, so it is not suitable to hold food overnight. At the same time, try not to use the iron pot to cook soup, so as to avoid the rust free oil layer on the surface of the iron pot disappear. Brush the pot should also try to use less detergent, and then try to clean the water in the pot. If there is slight rust, use vinegar to clean. What is the most important thing for a new buyer?

matters needing attention

It's important for the first boiling of the newly bought iron pot, and it also needs to pay attention to the maintenance in the future. 1. Prepare a piece of raw and fat pork; 2. Remove all the labels on the body of the new iron pot and wash the body with flowing hot water; Dry the water (especially the bottom of the pot), put the pot on the stove, and dry it over low heat; 3. Put the raw and fat pork into the pot, use the kitchen clip to "press" the raw and fat pork, and use it as "soap". Wipe the inner wall of the pot in a spiral form from the inner ring to the outer ring, so that the spilled oil can evenly cover the whole pot surface. 4. With continuous wiping, more and more melted black lard spilled from the pot, and "soap" will become black and small; 5. Remove the whole pan from the stove, pour out the black lard, wipe it with kitchen paper, clean the pan with hot water and dry it. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 for the stove; 6. After the surface of raw fat pork is scorched and hard, the surface can be removed with a knife and then continue to be wiped in the pot; After one more round of rubbing, the surface of the pan will appear cleaner than before. This operation can be done until the raw fat pork is no longer black（ 7. Wash the iron pot with hot water, dry it, put it on the stove, dry it over low heat, and then spread a thin layer of vegetable oil on the kitchen paper. The "pot curing" is completed. At the same time, it is suggested that we should not blindly follow the trend.