Thursday 13/March/2025 – 04:54 AM
Eating snacks is an essential part of Diet For every person, while some seek to eat healthy food, others resort to eating potato chips, crackers and unhealthy foods rich in sodium, so popcorn is a low -calorie snack that is rich in fiber and made of whole grains.
Heating popcorn in the microwave is cancer
The results of a study indicated that popcorn prepared in the microwave may be related to cancer, and the potential link between popcorn and cancer and cancer was not caused by the same popcorn, but rather chemicals known as PFCs -saturated vehicles, which are in the bags, and these compounds resist fat, which makes them ideal for preventing oil leakage through popcorn bags.
And according to what was published in the Times Now newspaper, The problem of the Pergifinocarbon compounds is that it decomposes to the Peruhokanoinoic acid (PFOA), a chemical suspected of causing cancer. The US Food and Drug Administration announced, earlier, that the thermal insulation materials containing the Peruzelu Alkille and Polyau Floro Alkille are no longer sold for use in food packaging in the United States, and this means that the main source of food exposure to PFAs from food packaging, such as fast food covers, popcorn bags in the microwave, ready -made carton boxes, and animal bags, have been eliminated The pet.
Can popcorn cause any other health problems?
The heated popcorn has also been linked to the microwave with a serious pulmonary disease, known as the popcorn lung due to the use of acetylothell, a chemical that gives the microwave popcorn its flavor and smell, and causes severe damage and non -repair lung damage when inhaled in large quantities.
Popcorn lung disease causes scarring and narrowing in the small airways in the lungs, to the extent that it does not allow a sufficient amount of air, and this disease causes shortness of breath, whistled, and many other respiratory symptoms.
