What will happen if you eat olivier every day? Doctor answers

Candidate of Medical Sciences, doctor of integrative, preventive and conventional medicine, nutritionist

Olivier is the most popular dish on the holiday table. It is customary for us to prepare this salad literally in basins and continue eating it for several days after New Year’s Eve. But how will it affect your health?

The composition of olivier has been constantly changing. If the original recipe included quail eggs, potatoes, crawfish necks and gherkins, the modern version involves the addition of sausage or chicken, carrots and peas.

The main harmful ingredient in the modern recipe is sausage, which is industrially processed meat and contains soy protein, a huge amount of E-additives, flavorings, colorings.

“Dangerous” this salad makes and the amount of mayonnaise that is added to it. With caution, the dish should be eaten with diseases of the digestive tract and inflammatory diseases of chronic course.

To make the salad more useful, you can replace the sausage in its composition with boiled turkey or chicken, canned peas – for defrosted, and mayonnaise – for classic yogurt, or prepare mayonnaise on a home recipe, adding olive or vegetable oil, eggs, pepper and dried garlic.

In general, if you eat a tablespoon of fresh New Year’s salad every day without canned peas, mayonnaise, pickles and sausage – nothing will happen. But this is if we are talking about the correct composition of the dish.

If we are talking about the widespread New Year’s olivier, then without consequences here will not do without consequences. The salad mixes ingredients with different resistance to storage, which means that pathogens begin to multiply much faster in it.

As soon as you add salt, mayonnaise and pickles to the salad, the active separation of moisture begins, which is an excellent medium for the reproduction of bacteria.

That’s why it’s not a good idea to finish the salad left over from the holiday, especially if it’s been on the table all night. Leftover olivier is best kept in the refrigerator by adding salt, mayonnaise and pickles just before serving.