How to eat New Year’s Eve dinner? Sausage with onion and garlic can prevent stomach cancer

As people’s health awareness rises, how should we eat the New Year’s Eve dinner this year to avoid the landmines of traditional Spring Festival diet? The beautiful nutritionist shares her own secrets for keeping healthy around the fire, increasing the proportion of high-fiber fruits and vegetables, and giving priority to white meat. The sausages and hot pot ingredients that are essential for every household contain nitrites and need to be eaten with onions and garlic to reduce the risk of cancer after intestinal decomposition.

Sausages contain a large amount of nitrite, which will form carcinogenic nitrosamines after being decomposed in the intestines. (Photo/Database)

Onions and garlic are a must for Chinese New Year to prevent cardiovascular disease and stomach cancer

Nutritionist Liu Yili said that processed products commonly seen on the table, such as sausages, salami, hot pot ingredients, and meatballs, contain high concentrations of nitrites. After being eaten, they are easily decomposed by intestinal bacteria and produce nitrosamines. Excessive intake will increase the risk of gastric cancer. It is recommended that when consuming these foods, they can be paired with spices or natural ingredients rich in sulfides such as shallots, onions, garlic, and green onions to avoid the conversion of nitrites into nitrosamines, thereby blocking the chance of forming gastric cancer.

The sulfide in garlic can block the conversion of nitrite into nitrosamines which can lead to gastric cancer. (Photo/Database)

In addition, eating too much red meat during the New Year holidays can easily increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. At this time, moderate consumption of natural spices such as onions and garlic to supplement sulfides can also prevent and reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular disease.

Eat healthy New Year’s Eve dinner! Homemade vegetable hotpot and red meat only 1 dish

In addition to the health risks of processed products, traditional New Year's Eve dinner dishes are mostly high in calories. Nutritionist Liu Yili recommends that people cook at home to best control calories. Cook with less starch and focus on steaming, braising or dry-frying with little oil. Use less minced meat or Dongpo pork with a high fat content. Use a mixed vegetable broth instead of chicken or beef broth for hot pot to reduce the greasiness of the broth and reduce calorie intake.

Use fresh fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes and onions to make vegetable soup instead of regular meat soup to reduce greasiness. (Photo/Database)

If you order New Year's Eve dishes for convenience, it is recommended to buy meat and seafood that are more complicated to cook. Try to focus on white meat such as fish, chicken, and seafood, and do not order more than one red meat dish such as beef and pork.

For other New Year's dishes, prepare at least 2 large plates of vegetable dishes by yourself. Buy fresh and colorful seasonal vegetables, such as chrysanthemum, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, spinach, large tomatoes, asparagus, etc., and cleverly match them with each other, one plate is stir-fried and the other is blanched. Simple cooking can also make the New Year's dishes feel rich. They are high in fiber and low in calories, and taste healthy and less burdensome.

【Nutritious vegetable soup base】 (10 servings)

• Ingredients: 2 carrots, 1 large white radish, 2 onions, 2 large tomatoes, 1 apple, 1 large burdock root, and salt to taste.

• Method: After washing all the fruits and vegetables, peel the burdock. The skins of other fruits and vegetables can be peeled or not. Use a rolling knife to cut all the ingredients into bite-sized sizes. Cut the onion into 4 equal parts and peel them. Put them into a large pot of water and boil them. After boiling over high heat, turn to medium-low heat and cook until the sweet flavor of the ingredients is completely released and blended together. Filter out the fruits and vegetables and finally add a little salt to season.

• illustrate:

  1. This vegetable soup has a sweet taste, low in oil and less burden. When cooking hot pot on New Year's Eve, you can add the filtered ingredients as needed, such as red and white radish, burdock and other hard-boiled ingredients, and then add various mushrooms, tofu, clams and other ingredients to make a hearty, healthy and low-calorie hot pot.

  2. Busy housewives can also cook a large amount of vegetable soup base at one time, divide it into small packages after cooling, and store them in the refrigerator. When cooking noodles, porridge or stews in the future, take out an appropriate amount of soup base and add clams, bonito and other ingredients to increase the flavor, so that delicious dishes can be served simply and quickly.