You can prepare delicious food in different ways. Baked dishes have a special aroma. Housewives use aluminum foil for this. Almost every housewife has it. Its universality and hygiene are attractive. At the same time, no special skills are required, everything is simple, fast and convenient. It is good to cover, wrap or pack cooked food with foil. However, the damage of the foil is obvious.
What is the harm to our health caused by the use of aluminum foil in the kitchen?
Unfortunately, there is evidence that the use of foil when preparing food is harmful to health, because:
- the aluminum contained in foil is a serious brain hazard. This heavy metal can cause Alzheimer's disease. In a person, the coordination of movements is disturbed, there are problems with memory.
- aluminum is no less harmful to the bones: calcium is displaced and the harmful metal accumulates in them in large quantities.
- the greatest danger is the foil for breathing. It can cause respiratory diseases. In the worst case, pulmonary fibrosis is possible. Aluminum in the body accumulates in different ways. Some constantly buy drinks in aluminum cans, others use deodorants with this heavy metal.
This is all true, but economic foil is no less dangerous. Of course, no one eats it in pieces. It enters the body imperceptibly, as if a person swallows flakes of foil that remain on food.
When it is heated to a high level, the scales crack and peel off. They are so small that they are invisible in food. A person eats them together with what was baked in foil.
If foil is used in food preparation, even spices and acidic products can be dangerous. At the same time, chemical leaching of the metal occurs.
Useful recommendations
The harm of the foil is obvious. There are a number of ways to help maintain your health:
• the use of foil, anywhere, should be abandoned forever. It is not dangerous only when using it as a wrapper for cold products. But for greater safety, it is advisable to use glass containers;
• it is forbidden to use foil as a wrapper for storing spices, tomatoes and all citrus fruits. The acid contained in them leaches aluminum from the foil into the products;
• you should get rid of aluminum dishes. At the slightest opportunity, it should be replaced with stainless steel;
Many women have long since replaced the foil with food parchment. It is absolutely safe for health.