冰淇淋吃法不當會讓人生病
Sometimes there's nothing better than tucking into a tub of your favourite ice cream. Especially at the end of a hot summer's day. But it turns out this could pose a serious threat to our health, if we don't take certain precautions. Experts have recently highlighted that ice cream is one of the lesser-known causes of food poisoning, and can be just as bad for you as undercooked BBQ food.
有時候，最棒的事情就是抱着最喜歡的冰淇淋狂吃了，尤其是夏季度過炎熱的白日之後。但事實證明，如果不採取一些預防措施，這樣的做法會對我們的健康構成嚴重威脅。近來，專家強調：冰淇淋是導致食物中毒的罕見原因之一，其對人體產生的危害不亞於未煮熟的燒烤。Amreen Bashir, a Lecturer in Biomedical Science at Aston University, has spoken out about the dangers of the sweet treat. She told that around one million people are affected by food-borne diseases in the UK every year. And the risk is especially high when going on summer picnics or having a BBQ.
阿斯頓大學生物醫學講師Amreen Bashir提到了冰淇淋的危害。她對網站說道，英國每年大約有100萬人受到食源性疾病的影響，夏季野餐或燒烤時，受疾病影響的風險特別高。
However a food that can make you just as sick as undercooked BBQ grub is ice cream - but it turns out many people don't know this. She said: "Aside from the well known risks of diabetes and obesity, ice cream really does have the potential to make you very sick."
然而，冰淇淋對人體產生的危害並不亞於未煮熟的燒烤--但事實上，很多人都不知道這一點。她說道："除了大家都知道的會增加糖尿病和肥胖的風險之外，冰淇淋還可能導致人們生重病。"
"In 2015, five people were hospitalised and three died after eating ice cream that had been contaminated by Listeria in Topeka, Kansas." Amreen explained that the most common mistake people make with ice cream at home is refreezing a tub that has already started to melt. "Ice cream can also pose a danger after purchase if it has melted and then been refrozen," she said.
"2015年，有些人在堪薩斯州託皮卡市吃了被李斯特菌感染的冰淇淋，之後，5人住院，3人死亡。"Amreen解釋稱，人們常犯這樣的錯誤：冰淇淋開始融化後，再放到冰箱冷凍。"如果買的冰淇淋融化了，再放到冰箱冷凍，這會帶來潛在危險。""This often happens when it is taken from the freezer, left out to thaw and then returned to the freezer before being taken out again to eat later. Ice cream melts fairly rapidly at room temperature and the milky, sugary, liquid concoction is a perfect petri dish for bacteria like Listeria, essentially the second time you dig into the tub."
"人們往往會把冰淇淋從冰箱取出來，融化後再放到冰箱冷凍，然後繼續吃。室溫下，冰淇淋融化速度很快，而融化的乳狀含糖液體混合物是李斯特菌的最愛，尤其是第二次吃的時候。"But that's not all.
但不僅如此。Commercially manufactured ice cream is often made using pasteurised eggs, so Amreen recommends making ice cream with pasteurised milk and cream and omitting egg to stay on the safe side. However ice cream isn't the only frozen food to have been linked to listeria outbreaks.
商業製作的冰淇淋通常由巴氏殺菌法消毒的雞蛋製成，所以Amreen建議用巴氏殺菌牛奶和奶油製作冰淇淋，不加雞蛋，這樣製成的冰淇淋會相對安全。但是，除了冰淇淋，其它一些冷凍食物也與李斯特菌疫情爆發相關。
