Watch out! Improper consumption of fruits and vegetables can lead to poisoning.

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When it comes to food poisoning, many people always mistakenly think that only some strange wild plants can cause poisoning. Actually, it's not. For some common fruits and vegetables, such as day lily, soybean, lentil, broad bean, mango, tomato, potato, etc., if eaten improperly, it is easy to cause poisoning and even death.

Xu, director and researcher of the Characteristic Flowers Research Office of the Institute of Environmental Horticulture of Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, pointed out that the common poisonous plants in South China are fruits and vegetables, horticultural poisonous plants and rural poisonous plants. Among them, if you don't have a good understanding of the characteristics of fruits and vegetables, it is easy to cause poisoning and even death, which must not be underestimated.

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Xu, a researcher. Engaged in flower cultivation, garden plant classification research, flower cultivation, demonstration and promotion and industrial development.

He is currently the director of the research office of characteristic flowers in the Institute of Environmental Horticulture, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and concurrently the general manager of Guangdong Flower Magazine Co., Ltd. and the deputy editor of Flower Magazine.

Beware of fruits and vegetables.

Poisoning caused by improper consumption

Xu pointed out that the current food poisoning (toxic substances contained in plants) is mainly caused by the following aspects: First, improper consumption of fruits and vegetables: if kidney beans are not fully cooked, such poisoning accounts for a high proportion; Second, eating by mistake: for example, taking the poisonous Gelsemium as honeysuckle and the fruit of Cycas as edible nuts to make soup, causing poisoning; Third, medicinal use: excessive or adding toxic plants (such as Aconitum) when cooking food; The fourth is man-made poisoning: the proportion of plant poisoning is very small.

The data show that in the national food poisoning report released by the General Office of the National Health and Family Planning Commission every year, food poisoning mostly occurs in collective canteens, families or catering service units, among which animal and plant poisoning accounts for about one third. From 20 13 to 20 17, there were food poisoning emergencies 152, 160, 169 and 348 in China. The number of people poisoned was 5559, 5657, 5926 and 7389 respectively. The death toll is 109, 1 10, 12 1,140; In the first three quarters of 20 18, there were 237 public health emergencies of food poisoning in China, with 658/kloc-0 per person and 79 deaths.

Please point out the following common poisonous fruits and vegetables.

Which fruits and vegetables are easy to cause poisoning or even death? According to many years' research, the most common poisonous plants in fruits and vegetables are day lily, day lily, cassava, chamomile, lentils, kidney beans, broad beans, soybeans, cabbage, purple cabbage, mango, tomatoes, potatoes, houttuynia cordata, Dendrocalamus latiflorus, taro, bracken and so on, so we must treat and eat them with caution.

Fresh daylily should be fried, steamed, dried, and processed into dried vegetables for detoxification.

The flowering and fruiting period is from May to September. Guangdong is wild. Flowers are edible. If it is fresh, it must be fried. Flowers contain a variety of alkaloids, which can cause diarrhea and other poisoning. If an adult eats 50-100g of fresh day lily at a time, it can cause poisoning. After steaming dried flowers, dried vegetables can detoxify.

Eating raw lentils can strongly stimulate gastrointestinal mucosa.

Guangdong has cultivation. Young pods are used as vegetable food, and lentils are poisoned by natural toxins such as hemagglutinin and saponin. If it is not cooked when eaten, it will cause poisoning, strongly stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, cause reaction, hemolysis, and occasionally death.

A few children eat broad beans or cause acute hemolytic anemia.

Guangdong has cultivation. A small number of children eat broad beans, broad bean products or come into contact with broad bean pollen, and have acute intravascular hemolytic symptoms such as acute hemolytic anemia, jaundice, hemoglobinuria, and even complications such as convulsion, shock and acute renal failure. If not treated in time, it may endanger the life of patients. Bean diseases (G6PD deficiency, glucose -6- phosphate dehydrogenase) have nothing to do with the consumption of broad beans, and the incidence rate is high in the south and low in the north.

Eat undercooked soybean milk or have dizziness, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever and other symptoms.

Flowering from June to July; The fruiting period is from July to September. Guangdong has cultivation. Contains saponin toxins, etc. The poisoning is mainly because the soybean milk is not cooked thoroughly. Poisoning can cause dizziness, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever and other symptoms. It is worth noting that when soybean milk is heated to about 80℃, saponin toxin expands when heated, forming a "false boiling" phenomenon. At this time, the toxic components such as saponin toxin are not completely destroyed, and if they are drunk, they will cause poisoning. Generally, after eating 0.5- 1 hour, the symptoms of gastroenteritis mainly appear.

Be careful to eat green tomatoes.

Flower and fruit period, summer and autumn. Guangdong has cultivation. Green tomatoes contain solanine, which can cause nausea, fatigue, vomiting, dizziness and other symptoms after eating.

Potatoes germinate or the pulp is dark green and cannot be eaten.

Flowers bloom in summer. Tubers are rich in starch and can be eaten. Guangdong has cultivation. Fresh shoots and fruits are rich in solanine. Don't eat exposed potatoes if they sprout or the pulp is dark green.

Eating taro every other meal or causing poisoning.

The flowering period is from February to April or from August to September. Common cultivation in Guangdong. Tubers are edible, need to be peeled and cooked, and raw food has a tingling sensation, which leads to hearing loss and headache. Poisoning is because eating taro after a meal will produce nitrite. Taro flowers are poisonous.