The world's most exclusive foods

Many tourists are always willing to enjoy the traditional cuisine of the countries they visit. But be wary of the following dangerous " specialty " dishes, as it may make you " go back and forth ".

Puffer fish

In the liver and puffer fish's internal organs contain poison tetrodotoxin, this is a poison that has no antidote. For Japanese people, especially in the city of Shimonoseki, puffer fish is an excellent dish. Puffer fish is cooked by many people here such as sashimi, fried, boiled or cooked with miso.

Puffer fish

However, this is a double-sided food, if unfortunately a small amount of toxin is caught, it is enough to take your life. An example is Mitsugoro's death, the famous Kabuki actor, who died after eating puffer fish. If you want to risk this dish, go to Shimonoseki, where no death related to puffer fish has ever been reported.

Live octopus

Live octopus

Octopus is one of the smartest animals on Earth, it has another brain in the nervous system. The tentacles (whiskers) remained active even though they were cut off.

In Korea people have a tradition of eating live octopus . The octopus is cut, dipped in soy sauce or sesame oil, and eaten. The untimely octopus has been put into the mouth, and the tentacles are still active, it can cling to the throat, suffocating .

On average in Korea each year there are 6 deaths due to suffocation from eating live octopus. There are even cases of tentacles from the oral cavity climbing up the nasal cavity. But because they think this is a nutritious food, they try to eat.

Giant bull - Namibia

Giant bull - Namibia

Giant bullfrogs are familiar in this African country. This is a deadly delicacy so you need to follow some principles when eating this animal. The experiences of the people here are eating them when they enter the breeding season, cutting off all their legs. If you do not do so, the poison in this animal will cause you to have kidney failure, the local people call it Oshiketakata .

Rotten cheese

Rotten cheese

On Sardinia, Italy, local people eat rotten cheeses. Perhaps because the traditional culinary culture is difficult to remove, though unsanitary.

Rotten cheese is made from sheep's milk. During fermentation there were many fly larvae living. Maggots and fruit juice ferment cheese faster. When it is almost like a man will eat.

Thousands of fly larvae are still in the cheese, even when eating the cheese, the larvae jump from the plate of food into their faces. To avoid eye damage, when eating cheese, people often wear glasses to protect them.

Dried salmon

Dried salmon

To Scandinavia we can enjoy unsalted dried salmon, bleached with glossy white alkaline solution. The dried salmon meat is soaked in sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide solution for a few days.

In those solutions, the degraded proteins cause it to swell and expand, looking like jelly. If soaking too long, the fish's fat turns into soap. After that, it is compulsory to soak in water for the whole week so that when eating, people do not have chemical burns.

Finally, this product has a pH of up to 12 , which is 100,000 times more alkaline than plain water. Such processed salmon can corrode cutlery, even silver and any metal used for cooking. This dried salmon dish is very dangerous for people with chronic stomach ulcers.

Datura

Datura

In the Americas, an Indian tribe uses berries to determine if a son has become a man. The boy, if he survived this challenge, was told that he was an adult.

This berries contain toxins, cause high fever, delirium, heart beat very fast, causing violent behavior, permanent memory loss, making people very uncomfortable both physically and mentally.

It has caused thousands of deaths by accidentally eating the berries. Thus the person who is considered mature in this way loses the knowledge of an ordinary person permanently.

Ackee fruit

Ackee fruit

This is a vitamin A-rich fruit and protein that is very popular with Jamaican people. But, you should be aware that when eating Ackee fruit, eat it before it is ripe, do not eat its seeds or allow it to come into contact with the seeds. Ackee seeds have a poison that blocks glucose production, lowers blood sugar and can be fatal.

Urushi tea

Urushi tea

In Japan, people use this tea as a form of corpse in Buddhism. Practitioners are called enlightened people who use this tea to die and then embalm it.

Tea comes from Chinese paint, and ivy has a poison concentrated in plastic (urushiol), which is caustic, used to treat parasites. After taking tea the body fluids stop circulating then dry up immediately and the remaining meat is very toxic.

The reason tea works to embalm the body, because the corpse will not decompose, even the maggots will not survive. This tea is illegal in Japan today.

Spider venom

Spider venom

From tens of thousands of years ago, people had a way to prevent pregnancy with the venom of some arthropods. When injecting their venom into the body, the hormone level in the female body makes the egg unable to conceive.

Squirrels know abortion when the winter is near by letting the spider bite, and when it is injected into the body, it will miscarry. Human contraception is less extreme later than in the past.

They no longer use venom-like venom, but just eat a little antimony, a chemical element labeled Sb. Medieval Europeans ate antimony at very small doses, just enough to prevent pregnancy.

Monkey

Monkey

Monkey minds are favored in many Asian countries. Although many people talk about the nutritiousness of the food, monkey brains contain Jakob disease, a variant that causes the brain to die and die.

Squirrel skin

Squirrel skin

Beans of squirrel skin grown in tropical Africa, have high toxicity. When eating it causes muscle spasms, convulsions, loss of control of the respiratory system, due to destruction of the nervous system, can cause death from suffocation.

Calabar people use beans as a test to prove guilt or innocence of someone suspected. If the accused is guilty, but there is not enough evidence to convict, for example, the accused is a witch who uses beans for trial.

The accused must swallow these beans and wait for the results. If they die, they are considered guilty. If the poison only causes them to have muscle spasms and vomit these beans before the poison enters the body, they are innocent.

Cannibalism

Cannibalism.

In human history when a group is in a dangerous or hungry situation, in that crowd they have to eat one person. For example, the city is under siege, there is no way to choose, forced to eat cannibalism to survive.

Cannibalism is extremely poisonous. Prion disease is easily transmitted throughout the group. It is similar to mad cow disease, even if cooked, does not prevent the disease. It is a disease that causes the brain to be damaged, gradually it is as porous as a sponge. In the end the victim suffered a painful death.

Until 1950, Fore in Papua New Guinea were still eating cannibals during the funeral, they regarded the dead as a source of food. This grisly custom ended when banned by the government.

Blood cockle - Shanghai, China

Blood cockle - Shanghai, China.

The bright red flesh oysters are considered by Chinese people to be positive, fortified and popular. When eating, just begging or grilling, sometimes eat raw, it is an excellent condition for hepatitis A virus and cause infectious diseases such as cholera, typhoid development because of cooking. sketchy above does not kill bacteria and viruses. There is a recommendation that only oysters are eaten when cooked.

Spicy shrimp

Spicy shrimp.

There are people who actively search for foods that contain chemicals, causing pain to the body when eaten. Allyl isothiocyanate (AITC), a colorless oil, extracted from canola called mustard, spicy to tears, nose and water.

Mustard oil kills more than 5 times more arsenic (arsenic). The typical dish at St Elmo Steak House (USA) is a spicy shrimp containing up to 9kg of small mustard grinded from horseradish oil. When eating this it feels like an electric shock.

Chili

Chili is poisonous, 3 times stronger than mustard.

Chili is poisonous, 3 times stronger than mustard. This is the most dangerous chemical found in any human food source on earth. An amount smaller than 4g is enough to kill an adult.

People use chili to increase hotness. Peppers are grown in India, Bangladesh, and are very spicy peppers. It is used to stop the elephants from the forest pulling out to destroy crops. Indian troops are planning to use chili as weapons.

Elderberries (elderberry fruit)

Just like Ackee, you have to eat this fruit when it is not mature. This is probably the most dangerous food on the list of ripe fruits eaten around the world. Flowers and fruits are used to prepare many foods such as strawberry jam, cakes, syrup; drinks like sweet wine (sambuca) or " purple juice " and even flu remedies.

Elderberries (elderberry fruit).

Leaves, branches, roots and seeds contain cyanide, so never eat their leaves or branches. Europeans often do not allow children and animals to come into contact with this plant.

Wild mushrooms

Wild mushrooms.

Wild mushrooms are the most dangerous food in the world. It can cause vomiting, and may even cause death if eaten in large quantities.

Rhubarb tree

Rhubarb leaves are poisonous, can cause death.

Rhubarb leaves contain toxins and you must avoid them when you want to take its trunk. The toxins in the leaves are very dangerous and can be deadly.

Raw milk

Raw unpasteurized milk is very dangerous because it contains pathogenic E coli bacteria.

The pasteurized milk available on the market is not dangerous, but some people use unpasteurized raw milk as dangerous because it contains pathogenic E coli bacteria.