15. Processed
meat
The processed meat including sausage, pate,
stuffed food… must be avoided during pregnancy. According to the latest
research, eating too much processed meat can harm the fetus. In the worse
situation, it can cause fetal poisoning or lead to miscarriage.
Pregnant women who crave this food should only
eat a small amount of it and take notice of the temperature that the food is
processed in for safety.
Pregnant
women shouldn’t eat raw or uncooked foods.
16. Uncooked
meat
The toxoplasmosis parasite is able to live
in uncooked meat and cause some complication like miscarriage, stillbirth, and
others when pregnant women are in their first 3 months of pregnancy. You should
cook meat well and carefully process foods to get rid of the parasites in it.
17. Raw,
uncooked eggs
Raw or uncooked eggs can be infected with
salmonella which brings trouble to pregnant women and their fetus. Salmonella
can go through the placenta and cause severe infection or even death to the
fetus.
You’d better avoid foods including uncooked
eggs like salad, homemade ice-cream, mayonnaise… When cooking eggs, you should
make sure that both of the egg yolk and white are well done.
18. Cheese
Cheese
is not really a safe food for pregnant women to eat.
Cheese is not really a safe food for
pregnant women to eat. Cheeses should be avoid during pregnancy, such as:
cheese camembe, cheese rocopho, feta cheese, Gorgonzola cheese and other
Mexican cheeses. The compound of those cheeses has some bacteria which can
cause miscarriage. You should only eat cheeses that are made of pasteurized
milk.
