Noodles and pho in the morning are the best in this part, but don’t be fooled to eat them all lest you get sick!

Many people find that the salty pho water often adds a little vinegar or lemon to make the noodle soup lighter, but this is just a way to deceive the taste buds.

A balanced breakfast can reduce the risks of disease and provide the body with energy. Breakfast plays a very important role in providing energy for people when starting a working day with many activities.

You should diversify your breakfast with many different options. Illustration

As recommended, a nutritious breakfast includes about 60% carbohydrates, 10 – 14% protein, and 25 – 30% fat of the total energy provided for the day.

You can diversify your breakfast with many different options:

– Choose breakfast from foods from dry grains such as bread, porridge, oatmeal, dumplings… that are easy to digest and rich in fiber.

– Choose sticky foods and side dishes that provide a lot of protein, fat and contain a lot of energy from starch.

Choose foods rich in protein such as eggs, milk, legumes and bean products, and meats. Nuts such as corn, almonds, walnuts… provide healthy omega-3 fatty acids.

– Hot dishes such as pho, vermicelli, noodle soup, porridge, soup have the effect of warming the body, helping the blood vessels to circulate more easily. This is a dish many people choose for breakfast. However, experts recommend, when choosing vermicelli and pho outside, be careful because this dish contains a very high amount of salt.

Things to avoid when choosing to eat noodle soup for breakfast

According to Associate Professor Le Thi Bach Mai (National Institute of Nutrition, Ministry of Health): A bowl of cooked beef noodle soup contains about 3.8 grams of salt, while a bowl of rare pho is 3.34 grams. Meanwhile, the recommended amount of salt by the World Health Organization (WHO) is only 5 grams of salt per day.

To limit “loading” of salt, you should eat the main portion and eat less or leave the water. Illustration

When having breakfast, many people have the habit of eating everything, drinking the whole bowl of vermicelli or pho. While that amount of salt is mainly in Pho water, eating Pho and drinking all of the water, then adding up with the additional amount of salt during the day will cause the body to have an excess of salt as recommended by WHO.

According to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Lam, former deputy director of the National Institute of Nutrition, advised: “Pho water is the place where the most salt is concentrated. To limit “loading” of salt, you should eat the main part and eat less or leave the portion. country”.

Many people find that salty pho water often adds a little vinegar or lemon to make the noodle soup lighter, but this is just a way to deceive the taste buds, making us load more salt without realizing it.

Therefore, it is necessary to immediately remove this mistake when eating noodle soup in the morning because excess salt will cause a series of health consequences, especially chronic non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, coronary artery disease. …

To be safe, you should wait for the noodle soup to cool down to about 50-60 degrees before eating. Illustration

Besides, although the noodles are soft, they still need to be chewed thoroughly when eating, do not swallow quickly because not chewing properly will cause the food to not be digested properly in the oral cavity, directly transferred to the stomach while still in its raw form. . This will directly damage the stomach lining, increasing the burden and working time for the stomach.

Moreover, this is a hot dish, but according to WHO recommendations, if you consume too hot food, there is a risk of esophageal cancer, cancer of the oral cavity, oropharyngeal because the high temperature can damage the muscles. this office. At the same time, too hot food also makes the digestive system as well as the intestinal tract susceptible to severe damage. To protect health, families should wait for the noodle soup to cool down to about 50-60 degrees Celsius before eating.