Pregnant women's eating habits are often the subject of jokes. But it's true: a sharp restructuring of the body's systems, along with other changes, can cause a sharp change in tastes, and at some point you may find yourself at the night refrigerator with a half-smoked stick or a bunch of sausages, although you never had much love for them. Is it possible to eat sausages during pregnancy?
Choose the lesser evil
If you really want sausages, limiting yourself means introducing a ban, and our body and psyche react with protest to all sorts of “no” things. Having chewed your need with a piece of dry chicken breast or other meat, you definitely will not feel satiety and pleasure, because you wanted a colorful slice of salami - yes, with butter and white bread.
You need to understand that among the sausages there are the most preferred and acceptable, and there are those that even a non-pregnant woman should refuse. Your task is to choose the least harmful types of products and monitor the quantity.
For example, it is advisable to leave smoked and semi-smoked sausages until better times, when you give birth and stop breastfeeding your little one. Firstly, such products are digested longer and harder, and secondly, during the smoking process, nitrosamines and benzapyrene are released, which are considered carcinogens.
Infrequently, but still you can eat boiled sausage, ham, sausages and sausages of the highest grade. Choose those that indicate the possibility of using in baby food - such products are subject to increased quality control requirements, which means they are less harmful. Do not eat them raw, but boil them without the shell. Excess salt, sodium nitrite and phosphates (we will talk about them below) will be taken away by water.
What are phosphates in sausage?
Phosphates is a food additive E 450-452, which stabilizes the color of the sausage, retains moisture in the product, maintains consistency and extends the shelf life, because it inhibits the vital activity of bacteria and prevents fats from oxidizing (this affects the absence of bitterness in sausages).
If manufacturers go too far with phosphates, then the sausage becomes visually loose. In the store, pay attention to the cut, and if it is sloppy, soft, then the loaf is of poor quality and full of additives. There is little animal protein in such a product, on the contrary, there is a lot of water.
Excessive intake of E 450-452 interferes with adequate absorption of calcium, which means it interferes with the normal development of the baby's bone tissue and increases the risk of osteoporosis in the mother. Supplements stimulate the production of certain hormones that simply wash the trace element out of the bones.
Poorly soluble phosphates become a factor in the formation of kidney stones and gallbladder, slow down liver function, disrupt the digestive tract, interfere with iron-phosphorus metabolism (and this is a direct threat of anemia, which expectant mothers are susceptible to).
Sodium nitrite: functions and harm
E 250 is added to sausages in order to maintain a soft pink even color when boiling meat and extend the shelf life of the product. The systematic use of sausages with nitrites leads to the formation of nitrosamines, indirectly responsible for the formation of cancer cells.
Pay attention to the label: if the composition is adjacent ascorbic acid(E300) and sodium nitrite (E250), this sausage is not so dangerous, because ascorbic acid inhibits the formation of nitrosamines.
The reason to limit the use of sausages during the period of expectation of the child is the high content of fat in them. He hides not only in the white veins of pork fat, but also in the smooth pink doctor's. For the sake of experiment, send a delicious round without visible grains of fat to a hot pan and be surprised to find how much fat is rendered out of it.
The same will happen with sausages. You may have noticed that the water from freshly cooked sausages has a thin greasy film on the surface. Raw smoked or dry-cured products in this case are much more honest, because white pieces of lard are immediately visible on the incision, and at least we know what we are going for when we put a slice of servelat on a crust of black bread generously greased with butter.
It is definitely necessary to minimize the presence of such processed products for those expectant mothers who have excess weight, suffer from high blood pressure, suffer from kidney stones, complain of pain in the heart and heart rate failures, and also if, despite healthy indicators, a woman experiences acute heartburn or nausea against the background of toxicosis.
It is better not to eat dry-cured (smoked) spicy foods with a rich salty taste and an abundance of spices if you have diseases of the stomach and intestines, cholecystitis, pancreatitis and other gastrointestinal ailments. Such delicacies can only irritate the mucous membranes and cause an exacerbation.
How to eat sausages without harm to health?
If you really want to eat something sausage, then choose premium products mainly from chicken or turkey, give preference to ham, chop and baby sausages, watch portions and control food combinations (for example, boiled sausage fried with vegetable oil should be replaced with boiled sausage, and in a sandwich, take not wheat, but whole grain bread). Sometimes it is more useful to eat a piece of homemade pork fat with a slice of rye, having received useful animal fats and vitamins, than second-rate greyed skewers full of fat and phosphates.
This does not mean that you need to forbid yourself store-bought meat products and suffer from the desire for the forbidden. I want to mashed potatoes with a plump sausage, as in childhood - eat, but in moderation and not every day.
If you are pregnant, everyone around you is talking about what you should eat and what not, and you no longer know who to listen to ... We will tell you about the foods that you really should avoid during pregnancy.
Among foods prohibited during pregnancy:
1. Alcohol: not even a drop
No amount of alcohol is safe, so you should not take even a drop during pregnancy, as the fetus is very sensitive to alcohol, it can harm him to some extent. If you really want a cold beer, you can drink, but make sure that the beer contains 0% alcohol.
2. No coffee and no tea
It is better to do without caffeine and with tea without theine. If you really like coffee, you can drink a cup of coffee a day so as not to be tormented by desire, but no more, because caffeine penetrates the placental barrier and acts on nervous system child.
3. No liver pâtés, no blue cheeses
These are delicious foods, but not recommended during pregnancy. Liver pates contain a lot of vitamin A, which could be harmful to a child during development. Other types of pate can be consumed safely (but in moderation), always packed in cans, this reassures you that they have passed sanitary control. Regarding blue cheeses (Camembert, Roquefort), you should not eat them, because they can cause listeriosis, an infection that could be very hard on the baby you're looking forward to. Yes, safe pasteurized cheeses.
4. No fish, no meat, no raw seafood
Even if you like them, stop using them. No carpaccio, sushi, oysters... They can contain microorganisms and cause you any kind of infection or food poisoning, like toxoplasmosis or anisakiasis. The first can damage the fetus, and the second, although it cannot directly affect the fetus, can cause problems in the body, but as you understand, drug treatment during pregnancy is contraindicated. At the same time, boiled seafood can be consumed without any problems.
6. No, very fatty sausages
Salami, smoked sausage, ham smoked sausage... very appetizing, but they should be prohibited during pregnancy. Firstly, they are high in fat, which makes it difficult to control the weight that needs to be maintained during these months. And besides, there is a high probability of contracting toxoplasmosis; although the risk is low, it is better not to risk at all.
If we talk about the possibility of eating sausages and sausages during pregnancy, then you need to immediately decide: among these products there are more preferable and those that are recommended to be abandoned by women during pregnancy. interesting position.
For example, it is desirable to limit smoked and semi-smoked sausages during pregnancy as much as possible, since they are more difficult to digest, and also because nitrosamines and benzo (a) pyrene are formed during smoking, which are not unreasonably attributed to carcinogenic properties.
Occasionally, but not every day, you can eat boiled sausages and sausages of the highest grade from trusted manufacturers, but at the same time choose those where the label indicates that they are recommended for baby food. Before use, such products must be boiled, after removing the polyethylene shell, since in this case the excess animal fat, as well as salt, phosphates and sodium nitrite will go into the water.
Why are "sausage" phosphates harmful during pregnancy?
Phosphates (food additive - E 450-452) are introduced into sausages to retain moisture in them, stabilize the color, improve consistency, increase the shelf life of sausages by suppressing bacterial activity, stopping fat oxidation and reducing the possibility of product rancidity.
By the way, with an excessive concentration of phosphates, the protein dissolves and the sausage becomes loose. Therefore, if the sausage on the cut is loose, and not tightly twisted into a loaf, this may indirectly indicate high content phosphates. Wherein the nutritional value the product falls: there is less animal protein in the sausage, and more water, thanks to phosphates.
With excessive intake of phosphates in the body, the absorption of calcium worsens, which creates a risk of developing osteoporosis in the mother and rickets in the unborn child. Also, excess phosphorus stimulates the production of a hormone by the parathyroid glands, which stimulates the leaching of calcium from the bones. In addition, an excess of poorly soluble phosphates from sausages provokes the formation of stones in the kidneys and gallbladder, makes the liver and gastrointestinal tract work harder, and can lead to iron deficiency anemia (since there is a connection between the exchange of phosphorus and iron in the body).
Sodium nitrite - why is it needed in sausage?
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Sodium nitrite (food additive - E 250) is added to sausage products in order to maintain a beautiful pink color when cooking sausages, as well as to extend the shelf life. With regular and excessive use of sausages with nitrites, nitrosamines can be formed in the body, which can cause cancer. By the way, ascorbic acid (which is also often included in sausages in the form of food additive E 300) prevents the formation of nitrosamines (therefore, it is important to see on the label the joint presence of E 250 - sodium nitrite and E 300 - ascorbic acid).
Sausage during pregnancy: too much fat ...
Another reason to limit the use of boiled sausages and frankfurters during pregnancy, even if they are without visible pieces of fat (bacon), is the high content of animal fats, which are a risk factor for obesity and atherosclerosis. Try an experiment: put a piece of boiled sausage (without inclusions of fat) in a hot frying pan without oil and see how much fat is rendered from this piece of sausage. The same applies to sausages. Raw-smoked and dry-cured sausage is “more honest” in this regard - the amount of lard is immediately visible there.
Definitely limiting the use of sausages is for those pregnant women who are obese, hypertensive, gout, urolithiasis and heart problems, because sausages contain a lot of salt, saturated fats and cholesterol. If there is inflammation of the gastric mucosa and duodenum, as well as cholecystitis, pancreatitis, nephritis - it is better not to use smoked and dry-cured sausages, which contain a lot of spices and have an irritating effect on the digestive tract and urinary system.
In anticipation of the baby, the expectant mother is filled with joy and worries. And not the last question on this list: what to eat so that it is both tasty and healthy? And around, as luck would have it, there are so many temptations in the form of a variety of sausages that women in an interesting position cannot eat.
Scarecrows from sausage
Sausages (including wieners and frankfurters) are dangerous not by themselves, but by the additives that are part of them. For example, the well-known monosodium glutamate "excellent" raises blood pressure, promotes the excretion of calcium from the body and disrupts the functioning of the kidneys. And the dye, which gives the sausages an appetizing color, may in the future become a provocateur of allergic reactions in the baby.
If you need such "gifts" - continue to eat sausages during pregnancy, hoping that trouble will pass by. If you consciously choose a healthy pregnancy and are ready to protect the baby from problems in advance, listen to our advice.
How to replace sausages in the diet of a pregnant woman?
Replacing sausage in your diet is as easy as shelling pears: just know a few secrets. And the first of them is that you should use ordinary meat in your diet. The second secret: you will have to cook delicacies yourself. Now let's move on to the tasty treats.
Boiled sausage. It can be replaced with several options. The first is to cook from chicken fillet.
Ingredients: eggs - 3 pcs., sour cream - 250 ml, spices and salt - to taste
Cooking: Wash the meat thoroughly, cut into small pieces and grind in a blender. Beat the minced meat with a mixer, using whisks similar to a corkscrew.
Separate the whites from the yolks and add chopped meat, salt and add spices to your taste. Then pour chilled sour cream into the minced meat, beat again with a mixer and begin to form sausages. We spread the cling film on the table and put the minced meat on it. Then we fold everything with sausages, and tie the ends on both sides with a thread.
We put a saucepan of water on the fire, bring to a boil and spread the sausages. Cook this sausage for at least 60 minutes. Then we take it out, put it on a flat plate and leave it to cool completely. After the homemade sausage has cooled down, it must be removed from the film and you can eat it. The taste will be very natural and pleasant.
Bouzhenina.A piece of pork stuffed with garlic and sprinkled with fragrant spices can be turned into boiled pork with the help of a slow cooker in two hours, which will give a hundred points ahead of the store version to taste.
Ingredients: pork - 500 g, garlic - 3 cloves, soy sauce (you can do without it, or replace it with dry wine) - 1 tbsp, mustard grains - 2 tbsp, vegetable oil - 2 tbsp, herbs to taste - rosemary, basil, dill, etc.
Cooking: We wash the meat for boiled pork thoroughly, dry it paper towel. Make small cuts with a sharp knife and insert the halves of the garlic cloves. Mix salt, herbs and seasoning. Thoroughly brush the meat with the mixture. Mix soy sauce, vegetable oil and mustard in a separate container. Lubricate the boiled pork with the resulting mass and leave the meat to marinate for 2-3 hours (or overnight).
We put the meat in a slow cooker and set the “Extinguishing” mode for 40 minutes. Then we set the “Baking” mode for 20 minutes so that the meat is baked until golden brown: it is advisable to turn the meat over several times so that it is evenly crusted on all sides. It can be eaten both hot and cold. The main thing is that relatives do not eat faster than you.
Don't have a multicooker? It doesn't matter: you can bake boiled pork in the oven using a baking sleeve, foil or a regular baking sheet.
Smoked or semi-smoked sausage. Of course, you can make it with your own hands using liquid smoke. But this is extremely dangerous for the unborn child, so it is better to replace this sausage with ... an ordinary homemade sausage.
Ingredients: pork neck - 1 kg, garlic - 4-5 cloves, salt - 1 tablespoon, ground pepper - to taste, Bay leaf- 2 sh., pepper - to taste, thin pork intestines - 1 pack.
Cooking: Cut the meat into very small cubes. Add salt, ground pepper, chopped garlic to taste and crushed bay leaves. We mix everything thoroughly. We cover the plate with minced meat and put it in the refrigerator for a day to brew. Knead the minced meat well again. When kneading, add a little water so that the minced meat does not feel dry to the touch. We put the prepared intestines on a tube for sausage (usually comes in a set for a meat grinder).
And then everything is simple - we tie a knot at the end and fill the intestines with prepared minced meat. We often prick prepared sausages with a thin needle so that the sausage does not burst during frying. Gently lower the sausages into boiling water and cook for 5-7 minutes, and then take out and dry. Then fry them in a frying pan vegetable oil on both sides, until a delicious crust appears.
So, as you can see, during pregnancy it is quite possible to eat healthy and not dangerous (neither for the baby nor for the mother) food - the main thing is not to be lazy and be healthy and active for all 9 months. Happiness to you!
Pregnant women should choose sausages that are low in calories and fat. Future mother it is recommended to abandon sausages, which contain ingredients such as soy, semolina and starch. Preference should be given to sausages made from beef or chicken. Perfect option during pregnancy - eating sausages made independently at home.
The main criteria for choosing store sausages
A poor-quality product can have an irritating effect on the gastric mucosa. When choosing sausages, you should pay close attention to the following factors:
- sausage color. Quality sausages are painted in a pinkish tint. Too bright color of sausages may indicate the content of artificial dyes or preservatives in the product;
- structure of sausages. Natural sausages have an elastic, hard shell. A soft shell often indicates that a product contains a lot of protein. Sausages that look shriveled often contain the stabilizer carrageenan. This substance can provoke the occurrence of allergic reactions.
Important! When boiling sausages, pay attention to the shade of water. If it is strongly stained, it is recommended to refuse to eat sausages.
A pregnant woman should buy sausages that have a special label. Such sausages are intended for baby food.
The scheme of cooking sausages at home
If a pregnant woman has diseases of the digestive organs, eating sausages bought in a store should be discarded. Such products often contain dyes, preservatives, flavor enhancers. In addition, in sausages industrial production contains quite a lot of salt, which contributes to the accumulation of excess fluid in the body.
A woman who has been diagnosed with gastritis is advised to make sausages on her own. They can be made from low-calorie chicken breast.
White poultry meat contains quite a bit of fat and carbohydrates. At the same time, chicken breast, rich in protein, is perfectly absorbed by the body. Not only sausages are prepared from it, but also other mouth-watering dishes:
- aspic;
- puree soups.
Easy Recipe
The process of making sausages at home is as follows:
- You need to take about 0.6 kg of chicken breast pulp.
- The meat is cut into small pieces.
- In a separate container, mix the crushed chicken fillet, 100 ml of milk, a small amount of salt, an egg.
- The resulting mass is thoroughly whipped with a blender. In its absence, you can use a conventional meat grinder.
- Then take the sleeve for baking. It is cut into small pieces, in which minced meat is wrapped.
- After that, the sausages are carefully twisted on both sides (like a candy wrapper), tied with a thread.
Before cooking, the products can be pierced with a needle in several places so that air comes out of them. sausages home cooking it is recommended to cook for 5-10 minutes.
The benefits of homemade sausages
In homemade sausages, which are made from chicken breast, the following components are present:
- tryptophan. This substance promotes mental relaxation. With a lack of tryptophan in the body, a woman becomes anxious and irritable. With a deficiency of this substance, headaches often occur;
- leucine is an amino acid involved in protein synthesis;
- lysine. This substance increases efficiency, strengthens hair and nails, improves the state of the immune system;
- purine, which saturates cells with oxygen;
- taurine. Amino acid activates the process of tissue regeneration, helps to improve vision;
- isoleucine. With a deficiency of this substance, appetite worsens, nervousness occurs, and fatigue increases.
A pregnant woman should adhere to the following recommendations:
- sausages are forbidden to be eaten fried;
- sausages are not recommended to be watered with mayonnaise, ketchup or high-calorie sauce;
- it is recommended to eat vegetable dishes as a side dish for sausages. In appetizing stews, you can add greens, which contain a lot of fiber.
In conclusion, it should be noted that during pregnancy it is recommended to refuse not only mass-produced sausages, but also liver sausage. The main ingredient of this product is usually beef liver. But many unscrupulous manufacturers add products such as starch, soy or wheat flour to liverwurst. Therefore, this product is recommended to be completely excluded from the diet during pregnancy.
