As many people know, potatoes cannot be used after they have sprouted, because the sprouted potatoes have deteriorated and a toxin called aloxaline appears in it. After this toxin enters the human body, it will cause aggression to the body, resulting in food poisoning.
In fact, under normal circumstances, mild germination of potatoes does not affect consumption. Because mildly sprouted potatoes contain low dragon anthrophyll, the potatoes in 100g have about 5 to 10mg of dragon angiosperm, which is not a threat to health.
However, if the potato has appeared cyan-purple skin or has a large number of buds, it should be avoided, so as not to cause a large amount of longrophyllin to enter the human body, resulting in stimulation and damage to the motor central nervous system and respiratory central nervous system, becoming more and more paralyzed. As a result, patients may experience nausea and vomiting, abdominal discomfort, and difficulty breathing.
Then, some people will wonder: since the sprouted potato is poisonous, is the sprouted garlic poisonous?
Sprouted garlic can be eaten.
The difference between garlic and potatoes is that the potato itself contains a small amount of dragon flower alkali, which will cause the content of dragon flower base to become more and more when germinating, and these dragon flower alkali has a certain toxic effect on the human body, so it will cause food poisoning after eating.
There is no dragon root inside garlic, so after germination, it will not produce substances that will harm human health. Therefore, everyone can eat sprouted garlic with confidence. However, when eating garlic, you should also pay attention to the following three aspects.
1, the effect of eating raw garlic is better
As many people know, garlic is a seasoning. When stir-frying or mixing vegetables, adding garlic can make the food taste more delicious. However, raw garlic is more beneficial to the body than cooked garlic.
Because garlic contains a large amount of allicin, can help the human body detoxification, insecticide, swelling, if suffering from enteritis, dysentery or tuberculosis and other diseases, you can eat garlic in moderation to assist in the treatment of diseases.
2, garlic should not be eaten in excess
Although garlic has certain health benefits on the human body. However, it has a certain irritation, excessive consumption will also lead to stomach and intestine stimulation, but may damage the spleen and stomach, so that people have decreased appetite, gastrointestinal discomfort and other symptoms.
Therefore, when eating garlic, we should try to control the amount of food, do not eat too much at one time, so as not to cause unnecessary harm to the body.
3, should not eat garlic on an empty stomach
People living in the north have the habit of eating garlic raw in normal times. However, here to remind everyone, try to avoid eating garlic on an empty stomach, because garlic has a certain irritation, in the case of stomach emptying, eating garlic is easy to stimulate the gastric mucosa.
Therefore, before using garlic, it is best to eat a little thing first. It can reduce irritation of the gastric mucosa.
Combined with the above, eating sprouted potatoes can indeed cause harm to the body, but sprouted garlic can be safely eaten. And when eating garlic, pay attention to the above three aspects can make garlic better play a role, help the body play a health role.
If you feel a peculiar smell in your mouth after eating garlic, you can drink tea, drink coffee, and chew gum appropriately, and the taste in your mouth can be improved.