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    Know that the lychee will have 5 questions on fire?

    • Last Update: 2021-06-28
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    Author: Ruan Guangfeng
     
    Recently, lychees are also on the market, and many people are ready to feast on it
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    However, some people say that eating lychee before driving will result in drunk driving, some people say that eating lychee will cause people to get angry, and some people say that eating lychee will cause people to get lychee disease, and there are even deaths from eating lychee every year.
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    what happened? Can you rest assured to eat lychees? Let’s talk about lychees with everyone today
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    1.
    Lychee is soaked in medicinal blister, will you get hand, foot and mouth disease after taking it?
     
    Some people say that all lychees are soaked in medicated blister, which can cause hand, foot and mouth disease
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    In fact, this statement completely confuses the "hand, foot and mouth virus
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    " After the lychees are picked, they do use some "chemical reagents" to soak and clean them, mainly preservatives
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    In the process of picking lychees, using "chemical reagents" to keep fresh is a very common treatment
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    China's agricultural standards also stipulate that all litchis can be treated with bleaching powder and fungicides after they are picked.
    As long as they are used reasonably, they will not cause any harm to people
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    Why should we deal with it this way? The main reason is that lychees are not easy to preserve
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    Mature lychees are easy to explode, lose water, brown during transportation, and are easily contaminated by various microorganisms.
    Because it matures in the summer of high temperature and humidity, it is easy to rot and deteriorate
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    If there is no preservation of lychee, many people will not be able to eat lychee
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    Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common disease in children caused by a “virus”.
    The “chemical reagents” used for soaking lychees do not contain this virus at all, and it will not cause hand, foot and mouth disease
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    2.
    After eating lychees, will you be found drunk driving?
     
    Every year in the lychee season, there is always a lot of news about eating lychee "drunk driving", which makes many drivers dare not eat lychee
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    Is it really impossible to drive when eating lychees? In fact, eating lychee will cause an alarm in the alcohol tester, which may be related to the sugar in lychee
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    Litchi is prone to anaerobic respiration during storage and transportation, and alcohol and carbon dioxide are produced
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    In addition, high-sugar foods will also provide a meal for oral bacteria, generating alcohol, acetic acid, methane and other substances, causing false alarms in the alcohol tester
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    However, the alcohol produced by eating a few lychees is very small, and the main effect is in the oral cavity.
    It stays in the human body for a short time.
    As the human body breathes and talks, the alcohol will be volatilized.
    Usually it cannot be detected after a few minutes Up
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    In addition, if you rinse your mouth immediately after eating lychees, you may not be able to blow out the alcohol
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    Therefore, if you are worried about being checked for drunk driving while driving, it is best to eat half an hour before driving, and rinse your mouth with water after eating
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    It was found out, and it was fine to apply for a blood test
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    3.
    Will litchi get angry after eating it?
     
    After eating lychee, many people will have some symptoms of discomfort, such as dry mouth, nausea, weakness of limbs, dizziness, bleeding gums, fever or acne attacks.
    Many people attribute them to " Get angry"
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    Many people think that eating lychee will get angry, and they don't even dare to eat it
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    Will eating lychee really "get angry"? In fact, "getting angry" is a folk saying, and there is no clear scientific definition
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    However, the reasons for these discomforts may include:
     
    (1) Acne
     
    Lychees are high in sugar
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    If you eat too much lychee, you will consume a lot of sugar.
    High sugar will increase the blood sugar load, and a high blood sugar load diet will exacerbate acne
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    Therefore, if you eat a lot of lychees, acne may occur
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    (2) Dry mouth and tongue
     
    The high sugar content of lychee will make the mouth in a hypertonic state, so people will feel dry mouth
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    (3) Weak limbs, dizziness
     
    Lychee contains a lot of fructose
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    Fructose needs to be converted into glucose in the liver before it can be used by us.
    This conversion process requires energy
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    If you eat a lot of lychees, you feel full, but we don't get enough glucose
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    Without glucose, many body tissues, including the brain, will suffer from weakness, dizziness and other problems due to insufficient glucose supply
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    (4) nosebleeds
     
    Some people get nosebleeds as soon as they eat lychees.
    What's the matter? One reason may be a coincidence.
    The nosebleeds are only an accidental phenomenon after eating lychees.
    There is no causal relationship between the two.
    In addition, some people may have food allergies and food intolerances, and nosebleeds will only occur after eating lychees.

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    (5) Other symptoms
     
    There are other uncomfortable symptoms, such as sore throat and fever, which are not necessarily related to eating lychees.
    It is likely that they are just a wrong summary of the life experience of people who are prone to throat and other respiratory diseases this season
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    For example, someone just happened to have fever, sore throat or even nosebleeds after eating lychee, so he suspected the problem of lychee, but at the same time he stayed up late to play games for a few days and watched a few dramas.
    Lychees
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    In general, eating lychee is not directly related to the many uncomfortable symptoms we often encounter
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    4.
    If you eat too much lychee, you will get "lychee disease"?
     
    Many people will have low blood sugar and dizziness after eating lychee.
    Some people call this phenomenon "lychee disease".
    This argument has been circulated among the people.
    There are even cases where more than 100 children died from eating lychee
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    Will eating lychee cause "lychee disease"? why?
     
    "Litchi disease" is actually a folklore, and there is no clear definition in medicine.
    It generally refers to symptoms such as low blood sugar and dizziness after eating lychee
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    At first, people thought that this was caused by the fructose in lychee
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    Lychee contains a lot of sugar, and a large part of it is fructose.
    After eating too much lychee, it will stimulate insulin secretion and cause symptoms of hypoglycemia
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    But considering that many other fruits also have a lot of fructose, and processed foods also use fructose syrup, they are all fine.
    It is far-fetched to say that fructose is the culprit of lychee disease
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    Later, scientists discovered that the cause of lychee disease is that there are two hypoglycemic toxins in lychee: Hypoglycin-A and α-methylenecyclopropylglycine (MCPG).
    These two toxins will Affect sugar metabolism, causing people to have some uncomfortable symptoms
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    Moreover, children are at higher risk of "Litchi Disease" because their physical development is not yet complete
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    There were some deaths of children in our country 20 years ago
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    But this situation is still rare now
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    5.
    How to eat lychees healthy?
     
    Of course, this does not mean that you cannot eat lychees
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    Because from the current research, the occurrence of "lychee disease" cases usually have several characteristics-"fasting" and "eating a lot"
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    So, just pay attention to three points, litchi is also edible:
     
    (1) Eat lychee in moderation, don’t eat too much
     
    You don't know how to control food intake, and eat too much at once
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    In fact, one of the main concepts of a healthy diet is to eat a balanced diet, with every kind of food eaten in moderation and not too much
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    Research 20 years ago
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    China's diet pagoda recommends that adults eat 200-350 grams of fruit per day
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    Therefore, although the lychee is good, don't be greedy.
    According to the calculation of 20 grams of a lychee, it is about 10-17 lychees.
    "Three hundred lychees every day" is definitely not recommended!
     
    (2) Don't eat lychees on an empty stomach
     
    Many children with "lychee disease" often eat a lot of lychees hungry
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    Remind everyone, do not eat too much lychee on an empty stomach, especially if you have children, you must urge the children to eat lychee after eating or something, or eat lychee as soon as possible after eating lychee.
    Eat lychees
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    (3) Don't eat immature lychees
     
    Studies have found that in immature lychees, the content of low blood sugar toxins will be higher, so when eating lychees, try to buy ripe lychees and eat them
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    Don't eat those that are not mature .
     
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