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Video content is professionally consulted by Doctor, Doctor Ho Thu Mai - Department of Examination - Vinmec Times City International General Hospital
Hot weather makes people tend to look for cool foods, in which using tapioca flour to cool, prevent boils, heat rash, cool skin is a popular choice in restaurants. family. However, not everyone knows how to use tapioca flour properly.
According to Dr. Ho Thu Mai - Vinmec Times City, kudzu is an easy drink to drink but not easy to drink. There are a number of mistakes that many people easily make such as drinking tapioca flour.
In fact, tapioca has strong cooling and soldering properties, but if you regularly drink tapioca flour for too much sugar, it is the same amount of sugar that makes tapioca flour counterproductive, causing heat in the mouth, the risk of obesity, and diabetes. sugar...
In addition to the mistake of giving too much sugar, there is also the habit of drinking raw tapioca. Many people think that will take advantage of the coolness of tapioca flour. However, tapioca flour is often processed manually, so the starch filtration process may not filter out all impurities, the starch will be contaminated. To prevent the risk of abdominal pain, diarrhea, it is best to mix tapioca flour with boiling water to cook tapioca.
Some people think that drinking more tapioca flour will have the effect of cooling off the hot season without knowing this is a mistake. Doctor, Doctor Ho Thu Mai advises that everyone should not drink more than 1 cup of tapioca juice/day and should only add less sugar. For pregnant women, if the body is hot, this is a good cooling drink. However, if the pregnant woman is tired and has a passive pregnancy, she absolutely should not drink because the cold nature of kudzu will make the body more tired and increase uterine contractions.
There are many people who think tapioca can be eaten with rice, especially in hot summer days. However, to ensure safety, tapioca tea should not be considered as the main dish in summer because although it has good cooling properties, in terms of nutrition, tapioca has very little energy.
For children, only give them tapioca when they are over 6 months old. Children should not eat when they are hungry because it can cause cassava syndrome.
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