Every time around the time of the Qingming Dynasty, you can slowly see a lot of sugar cane on the market. Stall cars pushed a lot of sugar cane and sold it on the side of the road. Sometimes, sugarcane juice can be squeezed fresh.
However, many people say: there is an old saying called Qingming cane, poisonous snake! Recent sugar cane, but must not eat. By this time, many sugarcane poisoning incidents on the news had been reported.
Is this true, sugar can contain deadly toxins? The answer is: really!
After eating a cane, she lay in bed for 31 years
There was a little girl nicknamed "Sugar Cane Girl". If it weren't for a sugar cane she ate when she was 5 years old, she wouldn't have been lying in bed in this position for 31 years.
After eating sugarcane, which contains a deadly toxin, 5-year-old Nana began to have a series of food poisoning reactions such as diarrhea. The family did not realize the importance of the matter at all, delaying the illness.
For 31 years, Nana's limbs had been severely stiff and twisted to the point of deformation. By the time she goes to bed at night, Nana may suddenly become hyperactive and unable to fall asleep because of the toxin.
The source of all this comes from the "Qingming Cane".
What exactly is Qingming cane? Is all sugar cane poisoned at dawn?
In fact, because of the plum rain during the Qingming Dynasty, the sugarcane at this time is easily infected with mold and becomes red heart sugarcane.
Red heart sugarcane is not the same as red heart dragon fruit. The red heart is not a sweeter and tastier meaning, but a symbol of mold and a deadly toxin!
Why does qingming cane contain deadly toxins?
In fact, the reason why sugarcane contains a deadly toxin may be due to a disease: red rot.
The production of red rot is closely related to a species of Rhodobacterium succulentium. This mold is able to produce 3-nitropropionic acid, which uses neurotoxins to directly attack the body's central nervous system.
After people are infected with this mold, they will have limb twitches, cerebral edema, coma and even death!
The incubation period of poisoning is very short, often only ten minutes. The terrible thing is that there are no specific drugs yet.
At just 0.5 grams, the body's own detoxification ability cannot eliminate the effects of toxins on us. This toxin, boiling water is not hot to death. The safest thing to do is not to eat red heart sugarcane.
Moreover, sugarcane infected with red rot can run through several nodes in the red area. Sometimes, you cane on the stall and ask the other party to help you cut a section, it is likely that there will be infected internodes in the middle.
There is also a case where sugarcane is infected with parasites.
When the sugar cane in the ministry turns red and black, it may be because the sugar cane is infected with borers.
Borers tend to occur at the end of spring each year, burrowing into the middle of the sugar cane and beginning to moth. Because it is a local sugarcane infection, in case the unscrupulous merchants take such sugarcane to squeeze the juice, it is easy to drink the infected sugarcane juice in a vacuum.
After drinking a cup of freshly squeezed sugarcane juice, how to tell if you are poisoned?
Many people may not buy sugar cane directly themselves, but order a cup of sugarcane juice in a restaurant. Even if the merchant mixes some red heart sugarcane and puts it in, he can't see or distinguish it.
So what to do? Sometimes, even if the intake of toxins is not fatal, it can cause actual damage to liver function.
In general, mild symptoms of intoxication will appear 2-3 hours after eating and drinking, mainly diarrhea, abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms.
Moderate symptoms of intoxication, and paroxysmal convulsions on top of gastrointestinal symptoms. At this time, you have to go to the hospital for treatment, otherwise you may have sequelae even after recovery.
How to choose a safe and secure sugar cane?
01 Touch hardness
Fresh sugar cane tends to be harder in texture. Sugarcane, which is no longer fresh and shows signs of mildew, has a soft texture.
02 Smell the smell
Fresh sugar cane has a special fragrance, while unseasonable sugarcane with signs of mildew has a trough smell.
03 Look at the color
Fresh sugar cane, whitish. But the color of the sugarcane is darker, even browner. And the section of sugarcane has red wire.
Dr.X said
The sugar content of sugarcane is very high, and if it is consumed in large quantities, it will also affect the rise in blood sugar. Moreover, bagasse is also easy to wear out the oral skin, it is recommended that you control the amount of consumption.