Oil contaminated clean water: Experts warn against using mineral water for cooking

In recent days, information on clean water sources of styrene Da river has made Hanoi people bewildered. City government. Hanoi recommends that people should not use tap water for cooking. The immediate measure is to use tanks to carry clean water to residential areas to provide clean water for people.

To ensure the health of the whole family, many people choose to buy mineral water, bottled pure water, and bottle to use.

According to Dr. Nguyen Dinh Binh, a lecturer of medicine at Dong Do University, both pure water and mineral water are good for health.

Purified water is a type of water that does not contain any minerals, so people can use it for eating, cooking and cooking without worrying about health effects. In the time of clean water pollution, the use of pure water for cooking is necessary. However, people should not use mineral water for cooking.

Agreeing with the above viewpoint, Prof. Dr. Tran Van Sung, former Director of the Institute of Chemistry, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology said that people should only use clean, pure water for cooking, not to use mineral water.

The reason given by experts is that the types of mineral water after adding beneficial substances such as magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium . When using this water at high temperatures will change. The mineral composition produces calcium and nattri deposits which are bad for health.

In addition, the mineral composition of water and substances in food, when processed at high temperatures, can occur chemical reactions, can not measure the harmful effects.

According to Professor Sung, people should only use mineral water for drinking directly, not for cooking.