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The news that sunflower seeds cause cancer will make a fuss on various social media every once in a while, and there are even claims that sunflower seeds are the first carcinogenic, but is this really the case?
One of the reasons may be that it grows quickly and easily absorbs heavy metals in the soil, such as lead, nickel, cadmium, etc. For soil, such a role can reduce heavy metal pollution and is an excellent green plant. But for humans, eating plants rich in heavy metals and accumulating them in the body is enough to cause disease and even death.
However, it is therefore concluded that sunflower seeds are the first carcinogen, which is unfair to sunflower seeds. Other crops that we come into contact with in our daily life, including grain and vegetables, also grow very fast, and the ability to absorb heavy metals is also very strong, so can we conclude that food and vegetables also have carcinogenic effects? Besides, we eat far more grain and vegetables than sunflower seeds, so why put sunflower seeds in the first place?
Another very important reason may be that sunflower seeds have a high oil content, and most of these oils are unsaturated fatty acids, eating too much will not only consume choline in the body, but also cause fat metabolism in the body. Fat accumulates in the liver, affecting the normal function of liver cells, causing liver dysfunction, in addition to connective tissue hyperplasia, and even inducing liver tissue necrosis or cirrhosis.
Scientific studies have shown that this second statement is also unfounded. Scientists did conduct experiments, but the results only showed that oils rich in unsaturated fatty acids (sunflower oil) are not suitable for frying, and if food is not fried continuously, there are not so many harmful substances produced.
Consuming too much unsaturated fatty acids is indeed an unhealthy way to eat, but excessive intake of any kind of nutrient is unhealthy, and only reasonable cooking and balanced diet are the most important.
Carcinogenic factors are generally divided into chemical factors, physical factors and biological factors. Excessive consumption of sunflower seeds can have an impact on our health, but there are no relevant reports in the existing literature that any of the ingredients contained in sunflower seeds have a direct carcinogenic effect.
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