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Is the wax in hot pot bottom material harmful to human body?

Any chemical substance will decompose under certain temperature and conditions. The same is true of paraffin. Cooking in hot pot for a long time will decompose into smaller low molecular compounds, which mainly affect respiratory tract and human gastrointestinal system. Some substances may accumulate in the human body, causing longer-term chronic harm. For example, when we eat hot pot, we often find ourselves having diarrhea. Most people think that it is caused by pepper, but it is different from diarrhea caused by paraffin. Ordinary people who eat paraffin wax can cause gastrointestinal peristalsis and diarrhea. The main difference with Chili diarrhea is that the stomach will be hot after eating Chili. These two phenomena are different.

How to identify the bottom material of hot pot containing paraffin? Xiong Dahua, chief engineer of "Summer and Autumn", said that the qualified hot pot bottom material will change with the temperature, which is generally hard in winter and soft in summer; The bottom material containing paraffin has no such characteristics, and it will be as hard as stone at any time. Pu Shiquan, the general manager of the "Third Five-Year Plan", said that the crumb base material twisted by hand, the base material containing butter and so on, was greasy, and the base material containing paraffin was very dry.