Contents:
- Medical Video: Healthy Sushi Choices: Dining Debunked! Mind Over Munch
- Is it safe to eat sushi?
- Generally, seafood is safe to eat
- Be careful there are parasites!
- If there are roundworms, the effect is worse
- Fish must be frozen first
- As long as it's processed well, it's safe, how come!
Medical Video: Healthy Sushi Choices: Dining Debunked! Mind Over Munch
Sushi is currently one of the most popular menus in Japanese cuisine in Indonesia. As food fresh and rich in omega-3, sushi is the right food for you to eat healthy and low-fat foods.
Dieticians from the University of California-Berkeley, Elaine Magee, MPH, MD wrote in WebMD.com about some of the things you should know about sushi.
Basically, sushi is a fish dish that is usually raw, combined with rice kepal. Most of the restaurants that provide sushi usually provide various kinds of complementary ingredients to eat with sushi, ranging from wasabi, pickled ginger, and shoyu aka soy sauce.
Is it safe to eat sushi?
Researchers from California Health Services conducted a study of 7 foods that were at risk of carrying an infection, and one of them included fresh raw fish.
But don't be afraid. Properly prepared and processed sushi is safer than other raw fish, but clearly not as safe as cooked fish, said Erica Weis, a research scientist at the California Department of Health Services.
There are 4 things you should pay attention to if you really like sushi and may want to keep eating it throughout your age. Here are the things you need to pay attention to:
Generally, seafood is safe to eat
Former director of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Seafood, Philip Spiller, generally seafood is a meal that is very safe to eat. He said that basically,seafood as safe as other meat sources. "But of course, there is no food that is truly safe," he added.
Be careful there are parasites!
If you find parasites in raw fish, the effect can vary from mild discomfort to severe pain, depending on the type of worm you find, as reported Environmental Nutrition. If the worm is a tapeworm, flukeor flatworms, you can not know it until it comes out through your stool. Or you can experience nausea, cramps and diarrhea.
If there are roundworms, the effect is worse
If the worm that enters your body is a roundworm, it may make your throat itchy and cause you to cough or vomit. It can dig into your stomach and cause severe pain and inflammation in the stomach. To remove it you need to do endoscopy or surgery.
Fish must be frozen first
The way to kill parasitic worms and larvae is to freeze the fresh raw fish meat for at least 72 hours at a temperature of -15.5 degrees Celsius. Please note that home refrigerators usually cannot freeze to the lowest temperature.
As long as it's processed well, it's safe, how come!
Take it easy, while processing raw fish in your sushi it is processed and served well, clean, and of course with proper handling, your sushi will be safe to eat.
However, before you decide to eat sushi or other raw fish preparations, you need to make sure and do the following:
- Eat sushi in a Japanese restaurant that has a good reputation and is known to be clean and healthy. This reputable restaurant is a restaurant whose fish meets food safety standards. You can ask the restaurant whether the fish has been frozen before or not.
- Cooked foods are always safer.
- The FDA recommends that pregnant women not eat raw fish, also if you have a problem with your immune system.
- Don't make your own sushi with raw fish, unless you can freeze it more than 72 hours below the temperature of -15.5 degrees Celsius. In addition, use cooked fish or vegetables. For example, you can cook a sushi roll, like a California roll combined with avocado and cooked crab.
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