Often found in home kitchens, you must be careful about consuming these 5 ingredients

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Home cooking is considered healthier than fast food restaurant menus. In fact, home cooking also adds ingredients kitchen which can be detrimental to health when consumed too much.

Some people choose to cook themselves at home rather than buying food out or fast food. This is done because they consider home cooking to be healthier.

Maybe this thinking can be correct if the ingredients chosen are also healthy. However, not all ingredients in the kitchen are truly healthy and free from the risk of harming health.

For this reason, start paying attention to the use of ingredients in the kitchen. Don’t overdo it and actually increase the risk of harm to your health.

Summarizing the Times of India (31/10), here are 5 kitchen ingredients that can damage your health if consumed too often:

1. Sugar

Not a few people add sugar to their food. However, you should not consume too much sugar because it can cause quite serious health problems. Photo: iStock

Almost every kitchen has an empty jar which is usually filled with sugar. Sugar is usually used not only to make sweet foods, but also to balance the taste of savory dishes.

Sugar also usually sneaks into tea, coffee and other recipes. However, consuming too much added sugar can put you at risk of various dangerous diseases ranging from high blood pressure, inflammation, weight gain, to diabetes.

Diseases like this will actually lead to even more dangerous diseases, namely stroke and heart disease. If you want to keep using sugar, you should choose natural sugar which is much healthier such as stevia or honey. Or you can also reduce its use slowly.

2. Salt

Not only sugar, salt consumption is also no less important to pay attention to. Especially for those who cook every day, they definitely need salt as an additional savory taste.

Salt may be able to perfect cooking, but you shouldn’t use it excessively. Too much salt will increase the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.

According to the WHO (World Health Organization), salt intake should be reduced. This is because they found that most people consume too much at around 9-12 grams per day.

By reducing sodium intake, it can also prevent death.

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