What is the situation that you can't eat Chaoshan pickles?

Healthy people eating a small amount of kimchi will not cause special harm to their health. However, pickles are rich in sodium and are not recommended for patients with hypertension, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and chronic liver disease.

Pickled vegetables are a kind of food processed from fresh vegetables, which is very common in life. Pickled vegetables contain nitrite, nitrate and other substances. Improper pickling will increase the incidence of malignant tumors, but also have certain deformities. For pregnant women, excessive consumption may induce fetal malformation. In addition, kimchi is easy to be contaminated by microorganisms during the production process, which may affect human health. Excessive consumption can cause gastrointestinal symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea. The high content of sodium salt in pickles will be detrimental to the disease control of patients with hypertension, chronic nephropathy, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and chronic liver diseases. So these people are not advised to eat pickles.

However, there is no need to completely exclude pickles in life. The recommended eating method is that the average healthy person eats less pickles for breakfast, which has the function of refreshing and stimulating appetite, but it is not recommended to eat it often.