Foods with natural poisons - rational processing

In the foods that housewives buy every day, such as fish, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, chillies, beets . Be careful when processing and using these foods because they can have toxins.

Toxins from carp bile

Carp.

Fish carp with word of mouth that drinking will enhance health, so someone drinks. Where is the health not seen but the drinker may have to go to emergency. In fish bile, there is a steroid alcohols of 5 a cyprinol, which, after entering the stomach, is absorbed into the blood to the liver and kidneys causing liver failure and acute renal failure.

Symptoms appear 1-2 hours after taking fish bile : patients feel uncomfortable, abdominal pain, nausea or diarrhea, 1 day later, the urine becomes less and then anuria, may be bipedal, headache, increased blood pressure, mild jaundice, progression to kidney failure, liver failure, and death if not taken to the hospital for prompt dialysis. So from now on, remember that you will never drink or let your loved one drink carp fish.

Poison from mushrooms

A poisonous mushroom.

In fact, there are many types of mushrooms: there are healthy and poisonous mushrooms, who unfortunately eat poisonous mushrooms will have to learn the final lesson. Poisonous mushrooms are often found in forests starting in the rainy season or wild mushrooms growing on the roadside. Poisonous mushrooms are divided into 2 groups: the fungus group has symptoms of poisoning early 6 hours after eating, typically mushrooms amanita muscaria, anipantherina, red mushrooms or sun mushrooms.

People with symptomatic poisoning: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle twitching, muscle pain, hallucinations . often do not cause death. Group of highly pathogenic and highly fatal fungi, typically amanita phalloides, A. ocreata, A. verna .

People with poisoning have symptoms that appear late after eating mushrooms from 6 to 24 hours or 48 hours later with symptoms: nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, low urine, dark yellow urine, yellow eyes, liver failure and acute renal failure. The risk of death is very high if not detected and treated promptly.

So, you should only buy and eat the types of mushrooms that you know are definitely edible. Never buy or eat exotic mushrooms to ensure your safety and your family.

Poison in bamboo shoots

Cyanide is toxic in bamboo shoots. A study of 3 types of bamboo shoots showed that: white bamboo shoots (made from bamboo shoots), white bamboo shoots are soaked in water for half a day, then, bamboo shoots are slightly sour and bamboo shoots are boiled and soaked in the market. All schools have very worrying cyanide content. The cyanide available in bamboo shoots will gradually decrease when exposed to water. But for sour bamboo shoots, during the soaking process, cyanide can be combined with some enzymes or in combination with some substances in the intestine, causing acute poisoning. Therefore, when processing bamboo shoots, you should follow a folk experience to thoroughly wash, soak bamboo shoots in water for several hours and boil it 1-2 times before eating to avoid poisoning.

Cassava also has cyanide

While boiling, open the lid to let cyanide fly away.

In cassava contains cyanide poison. When boiled, especially boiled in large quantities, this substance will close scum on the surface of the water. People who eat this substance with a high concentration will be poisoned.

The best way to remove cyanide in cassava is to peel, then soak in cold water for many hours before boiling. In addition, while boiling, the lid should be opened to allow cyanide to fly away, the amount of toxic substances will be significantly reduced.

Poison in potatoes for a long time

Potatoes are left for a long time or let them be exposed to the sun, especially potatoes that have sprouted or when the potato peel has turned green, the solanin content of potatoes increases very high. Symptoms of poisoning are abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, difficulty breathing. To avoid potato poisoning, you should not buy or process foods from sprouted potatoes or tubers that have turned green, those that have dug out of the ground for too long .

Peanut mushrooms are very poisonous

Fresh peanuts (peanuts) are good nutrients for the human body. But if the storage is not good, in a humid environment ., peanuts are easily moldy. Mold on peanuts is very poisonous, people must be poisoned with symptoms: abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea . Prevention by drying, good storage, avoiding to mold; Do not eat moldy, dark, peanut seeds or unusual seeds.

Poisonous in cashew nuts

Raw cashew nuts contain urushiol - a toxin, when eating cashew nuts containing large amounts of toxins can be fatal. When buying cashew nuts, you need to pay attention to whether the cashew nuts are steamed or not. You only buy and use raw cashew nut food that has been processed by steaming up.

Toxins in white radish

Radish bark contains toxin furocoumarins.

White radish contains toxic furocoumarins. This toxin is usually the highest in the skin, which can cause stomach pain or a burning reaction on the skin when exposed. Therefore, when processing food, you need to remove the peel and the damaged part of the bulb to avoid poisoning. When cooked, baked, heated in the microwave, radish is also out of poison.