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Recently, in order to beautify and nourish her face, a woman in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, ate ten pomegranates in a day and crushed and swallowed the pomegranate seeds. As a result, the chewed pomegranate seeds formed sharp particles that cut through her rectal mucosa and swirled into clumps in the rectum, even scratching the anus and causing inflammation and edema. In the end, the doctor used 5 bottles of open plugr in a row, combined with the intestine washer, to help the woman drain the pomegranate seeds.
When eating fruits on a daily basis, many people will ignore the humble little thing of "fruit seeds". This news has aroused the attention of netizens to "fruit seeds" and has also triggered discussions.
"Fruit seeds are rich in nutrients, should I eat more?" "Fruit seeds are poisonous, don't touch them?" "Seedless fruit smeared with birth control pills, eating it will lead to infertility?" On this small "fruit seed", it can be said that there are many opinions, so today the rumor debunking jun will take everyone into the "fruit seed" and clarify the rumors and misunderstandings about it.
In general, the "fruit seeds" mentioned in our daily lives refer to the seeds of fruit trees, which are the reproductive organs of fruit trees in their natural state.
However, there are exceptions, not all "fruit seeds" are seeds, such as strawberries "seeds" are actually a complete fruit, we eat part of the flower tray to develop fake fruit.
There are many kinds of fruits in China, with different forms, so there are also great differences in the shape, size, quantity, and hardness of fruit seeds. For example, dragon fruit and kiwi fruit are distributed with many sesame seeds, small and soft. Fruits such as peaches and apricots have only one large, hard seed in them.
After understanding what fruit seeds are, we return to the question that everyone is most concerned about: can fruit seeds be eaten?
The advice of the debunking jun is that although some fruit seeds have certain nutritional value, there is no need to take the initiative to eat them.
1, although there is nutrition, but it is not necessary
As the propagation of fruit trees, fruit seeds do contain a variety of amino acids, minerals and other nutrients.
For example, pomegranate seeds contain polyphenols, which have been shown to be antioxidant, enhance capillary vitality, and improve skin smoothness and elasticity. The lady in the opening news of the article is interested in the beauty effect of pomegranate seeds.
However, the content of polyphenols in pomegranate seeds is extremely limited, and it is difficult to achieve the corresponding effect by eating pomegranate seeds directly, and eating too much will also cause adverse effects. In addition, polyphenols are also contained in fruits and vegetables such as berries and beans, and it is not necessary to "point to the sword".
Therefore, although fruit seeds contain nutrients that are beneficial to the human body, it is difficult to exert real effects because of the small content. At the same time, these nutrients are also contained in common foods, and there is no need to directly eat fruit seeds to supplement.
2, the texture is hard, more eating is not appropriate
Most fruit seeds are particularly hard in their physical structure, such as pomegranate seeds, grape seeds, hawthorn seeds, etc.
Fruit seeds are "too hard" and also contain a lot of crude fiber, which is not easily digested by the human body.
If you eat a large amount at one time, it will not only increase the gastrointestinal digestive burden, but they may also be concentrated together with the peristalsis of the intestine, and eventually accumulate in the rectum, resulting in the inability to defecate. Even after chewing, pomegranate seeds form sharp small particles that scratch the esophagus and rectal mucosa.
Therefore, excessive consumption of fruit seeds is not only difficult to ensure nutritional efficacy, but also brings a lot of harm to health, and the gain is not worth the loss.
3. Not all fruit seeds can be eaten
Fruit seeds contain not only nutrients, but even toxic substances. For example, the seeds of fruits such as apples, apricots, plums, pears, and cherries contain cyanosides.
Cyanidine itself is not toxic, but cyanosides are broken down into benzoic acid, glucose, and toxic cyanuric acid under the action of water and acids and related enzymes.
Therefore, if you eat a large number of such fruit seeds, it may lead to human poisoning, ranging from nausea and vomiting to breathing difficulties, coma and even death.
However, if you eat them inadvertently, don't worry too much. Toxic reactions can only be caused when the dose of toxic substances reaches a certain standard.
In fact, the content of cyanogen glycosides in fruit seeds is low, and researchers found that the most cyanidines in the rosaceae family are bitter almonds, accounting for 3% to 4%, and children who mistakenly take more than 10 bitter almonds will lead to poisoning. Compared with bitter almonds, apple seeds, cherry seeds, etc. are of small quality and have less cyanidine content.
So if you inadvertently eat poisonous fruit seeds, don't panic too much, you can go to the hospital to consult a doctor.
4, biological evolution tells you that fruit seeds are not suitable for consumption
What is the meaning of the existence of plants? There must be a fertility clause.
Fruit seeds are the propagators of plants, and plants have made many efforts in the process of evolution to ensure that fruit seeds can successfully reproduce the next generation.
The flesh wrapped around the fruit seed is used to attract animals to feed so that it can be spread and dispersed; the hard structure and the crude fiber contained reduce the probability of damage in the natural state of the fruit seed, avoiding digestion after being swallowed by the animal.
In order to avoid being chewed, most fruit seeds contain tannic acid that makes the animal's tongue astringent, and the rosaceae even allowed fruit seeds to contain cyanosides that are bitter after chewing in the process of evolution.
This is how plants do everything they can to make the seeds inedible so that they are not eaten by other creatures.
If this is the case, why should we give up our roots and eat the fruits and seeds that are not suitable for eating?
This statement is a rumor! Birth control pills are animal hormones that will have no effect when applied to plants.
In fact, it is not difficult to get seedless fruits. As long as the fruit has the ability to be fruity as a single sex (it can bear fruit without sperm) and has the conditions to create the opportunity for embryo failure (so that it cannot form seeds without sperm), then we can get seedless fruit.
At present, the seedless fruits we eat mainly come from the following three ways:
1. Natural mutation
Many of the seedless citrus we often see now is due to the mutation of its original seed due to external stimuli when germination, so that the seeds cannot develop, but the fruit can develop normally.
These branches can be bred by cuttings, grafting, etc., and seedless citrus can be produced.
2. Artificial breeding
The seedless watermelon we currently eat is the product of artificial breeding.
Technically, agricultural scientists crossed diploid watermelon (with seeds) with tetraploid watermelon to obtain triploid watermelon, and because triploid cells have a union disorder when performing meiosis, triploid watermelon cannot form seeds.
In addition, most of the bananas we currently eat are triploid seedless bananas that have been cross-bred by agricultural scientists.
3. Plant growth regulator
Taking grapes as an example, for seeded grape varieties, we will use plant growth regulators such as gibberellin to treat them before and after flowering to make them seedless.
I believe that many people will feel that fruits that have been treated by plant growth regulators such as gibberellin will be harmful to the body. But in fact, plants themselves can synthesize gibberellin, and gibberellin used by fruit farmers is also a class of pesticides that are legally registered to regulate plant growth and development.
The Fruit Quality and Safety Risk Assessment Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture has said that in the results of the grape quality and safety risk assessment of the Ministry of Agriculture for many years, gibberellin is rarely detected in grapes, and the residual amount in the samples is not more than 0.1mg/kg.
If a person wants gibberellin poisoning and needs to eat 1800 kilograms of grapes a day, this is obviously impossible. Therefore, the legal and compliant use of plant growth regulators is safe and reliable.
Finally, the rumor-busting jun reminds that eating fruit in moderation is conducive to good health, but it is also not greedy. As for fruit seeds, such as kiwi fruit, dragon fruit, etc. that do not affect the taste, non-toxic, and the texture is not hard, you can eat it with peace of mind, without specially removing the seeds. And like hard, poisonous fruit seeds, everyone tries to eat as little or no as possible.
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