Monday, January 29, 2007

"hair" "veggie"

so from now on i can get some GOOD points standing on MY SIDE - i just don't like any food that's BLACK in general.. haha

研究指髮菜與老人痴呆有關 (11:32) 2007年1月29日

中大在市面抽取個髮菜樣本研究,發現除混有假髮菜。又指髮菜含氨基酸代謝物的毒素,與老人痴呆有關。

中文大學應環保團體要求,抽取市面41個髮菜樣本化驗,發現14個混有問題樣本,混入了由澱粉,色素和添加劑製成的假髮菜。

中大生化系副教授陳竟明說,髮菜本身沒有營養價值,中國人只是取髮菜諧音「發財」,所以喜歡過年食用。而負責檢測的生物系教授畢培曦指出,髮菜含有一種氨基酸代謝物的毒素,有研究指是與柏金遜症及老人痴呆症有關,呼籲市民避免食用髮菜。

As a matter of fact i'm surprised when i yahoo 髮菜 they've done research long time back and advising ppl not to eat!

http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/ws_chi/choice/preview/p296.print

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Arhh...thanks for the...bad news.

I have been eating 髮菜 since I was little, but luckily not everyday (only during Lunar New Years).

What can I say!

Jasper222 said...

i hate 髮菜 so there's always 1 dish i don't eat during CNY!
hohohoh

WittyBB said...

but if you are eating once a year, during CNY. then ... when i turn 80, i only have 80 times... however, i'd think that i eat more junk food (or food that's has been known for not good for your health) throughout my life ... more than 80 times ... um ... as for me, it's been almost 7 years since i eat 'fa choi' ga la... last time was 1999 CNY.