Paracetamol, a popular pain killer in Nigeria and some other parts of West Africa, is now an ingredient to boil meat in households and restaurants.

 

According to a post shared widely on social media, some eateries and fast food joints use paracetamol to cook meat. This is allegedly because it is a fast way to make the meat softer, thus saving your gas, kerosene or firewood.

 

Also, it costs much less. Paracetamol goes at about ₦50 for one sachet of 12 tablets, and each tablet can cause a pot-full of meat to cook within a few minutes.

 

It’s an amazing discovery, or so it seems. What these people don’t know, however, is that as much as they are quickening the amount of time it takes to cook, they are also quickening their days on mother earth.

 

 

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Why Paracetamol should not be used as an ingredient

Paracetamol is a pain killer, and it helps to cure a headache or take care of pains. When cooked in a pot, it’s a certain expressway to kidney or liver failure.

 

Medical experts say that when paracetamol, is cooked, it loses the pain killer property. It then becomes acidic and dangerous for human consumption. Paracetamol is hydrolysed into what is called 4-aminophenol, which, experts say, is very toxic to the kidney and liver.

 

A few weeks ago, a Facebook user raised an alarm about the prevailing use of paracetamol to cook goat meat ‘pepper soup’ in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and other surrounding areas.

 

 

Restaurant owners opt for paracetamol because it helps them save cost and reduce the waiting time for customers. If you are reading this article and have once indulged in boiling meat with Paracetamol, please desist from it.

 

Also, be careful when you go to restaurants to eat. Your life is more important than goat meat pepper soup.

 

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