Time flies, and it’s the day when litchi goes on the market every year.
Lychee, the flesh is transparent and delicious, it can be described as a kind of fruit suitable for all ages.
If there are any shortcomings, it is intolerant of storage.
Every time this season, all kinds of news about lychees start to pop up:
1. Eating lychee on an empty stomach resulted in the death of 10 children;
2. Illegal traders sprayed lychees with chemical potions to produce poisonous lychees;
3. If you cannot eat lychees while driving, it will lead to drunk driving;
Is the sweet and delicious lychee so terrible? Can children still eat lychees in the future?
Eating lychee can induce lychee disease?
“Litchi disease” originated in a litchi-producing area in India-“Muzaffarpur area of India”. It usually occurs in children around June each year, and many people will have acute neurological diseases.
It is worth noting that from the data in this area of India, the mortality rate of patients with this type of disease is relatively high, and hypoglycemia occurs during the onset of the disease. After excluding a variety of risk factors that may induce the disease, the litchi is finally locked. As the “inducing factors”.
Looking at it now, litchi disease is only a folklore, and there is no clear explanation in modern medicine. It mainly refers to “hypoglycemia, dizziness and other symptoms that appear after eating litchi.”
What is the relationship between litchi and litchi disease?
A paper published in The Lancet in 2017 pointed out that lychees contain two toxins, hypoglycine A and a-methylenecyclopropylglycine, and the lychee disease in Muzaffarpur, India is related to this. The two toxins are related. When a child picks up a lot of lychees in the orchard, he goes home at night and does not eat dinner, which leads to insufficient blood sugar in the body at night; in this case, our body will produce sugar through “gluconeogenesis” However, these two toxins in lychee just inhibit the progress of gluconeogenesis, so that the child has the problem of “hypoglycemia”. This explanation is a more reasonable explanation so far, and it can fully explain the “relationship between litchi and litchi disease”.
Can’t you eat lychees for your children in the future?
Although lychee is related to lychee disease, this does not mean that “children cannot eat lychee.”
From the point of view of the disease principle, “eating on an empty stomach (insufficient glycogen storage in the body)” and “eating a lot (higher intake of toxins)” have become the core factors of children suffering from lychee disease.
If you don’t eat lychee on an empty stomach, you will naturally have enough glycogen in your body, so that “gluconeogenesis” will not start. Without gluconeogenesis, whether toxins will inhibit gluconeogenesis will become irrelevant.
Therefore, limit the amount of full-ripe lychees to eat, reduce the intake of toxins, and have a higher safety factor.
For children, lychee is a kind of fruit that can be eaten with confidence. Be careful not to eat it on an empty stomach. At the same time, pay attention to eating it in a limited amount. Do not eat lychee as a meal when you are hungry.
Every time when lychees are on the market, there will always be several news about “Litches cause drunk driving”. Are they true or false?
Eating lychees can cause “drunk driving”?
In fact, this is just an “illusion”.
During the transportation and storage of litchi, there will be a certain amount of “anaerobic respiration”, which will produce carbon dioxide and alcohol.
It is worth noting that lychee itself is a kind of fruit with high sugar content, and the large intake of sugars will also provide nutrients to the bacteria in the oral cavity, leading to the production of alcohol, methane and other substances.
Adding the two together, you may naturally cause false alarms from the alcohol tester after eating lychees.
In addition, “drunk driving caused by eating lychee” and “real drunk driving” are fundamentally different, so don’t panic.
A few lychees produce very little alcohol (amount), and the time it stays in the body is also very short. The alcohol can be volatilized between breathing and speaking. Generally, it will not be lost after a few minutes or ten minutes. It was tested out.
Therefore, if you were blown out of drunk driving because you ate some lychees, you can drink some water to rinse your mouth, wait a while, and then go for a re-examination; if it’s not, blood test to identify the truth, “fake drunk driving” It is false after all.
Is “poison potion” sprayed with lychee, is it poisonous to eat?
Some “videos of businesses spraying unknown liquids on lychees and other fruits” are often spread on the Internet. Many people call this liquid “poison”, which can cause human body poisoning after consumption.
But in fact, there is basically no such thing as spraying the so-called “poison” on lychees.
These so-called “chemical potions” are relatively low in toxicity, but the effect is very good. There is no need to take risks and “unauthorized use”; in addition, these substances are easy to clean off, and even a slight excess will not harm your health.
It is even more rumored that children are prone to hand, foot and mouth disease after eating “lichee soaked in medicinal water”?
Hand, foot and mouth disease is an acute infectious disease caused by enterovirus. The syrup used for soaking lychees is used to preserve the freshness and will not produce enterovirus or help spread the virus.
Therefore, whether it is a potion or lychee, it has nothing to do with the hands, feet, and mouth.
What are the precautions for eating lychee?
Eat “fully ripe lychees”
There are more “hypoglycemic toxins” in lychees that are not fully mature, and the risk of “injury” after consumption is higher.
Therefore, in the process of selecting and eating lychees, please eat “done”, which is delicious and safe.
“The right amount” is fundamental
It is recommended that adults consume 200-350 grams of fruit per day. It is recommended that you use more than three kinds of fruits to satisfy this amount, and strive for a variety of food combinations.
For lychees, it is not recommended to consume more than 10 lychees per day.
Refusal to “fasting”
Fasting taste lychees, will increase “litchi disease” of the risk, but also induced acid reflux, heartburn and other issues, pose a threat to the digestive system and blood sugar will be.
Eat between meals and stop eating lychees after a meal to develop a good “fruit-eating habit.”
Watch out for “special groups”
For special people who suffer from diabetes, gout, digestive system diseases and other problems, please eat lychees according to your doctor’s advice and your personal physical condition, and pay attention to the amount and time of consumption.
In summary
Lychees can still be eaten
But be careful not to eat on an empty stomach
Try to eat fully cooked
Special population
Please follow the doctor’s advice
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