Have you heard a saying?
"Qingming cane, poisonous snake"
Sugar cane as a sweet and juicy fruit
Always very popular
But before and after Qingming
Eat sugar cane with caution
Recently, Jiangsu CDC
Released March disease prevention tips
Remind everyone to prevent mold sugar cane poisoning
Why does eating sugar cane cause poisoning?
Sugarcane is generally harvested and marketed around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, and will not be sold until around Qingming in the following year, and it is easy to mildew and produce toxins during transportation and storage.
It is not the sugarcane itself that "poisons the snake", but the moldy and discolored "red heart" or "black heart" sugar cane.
Can eating moldy sugar cane kill from poisoning?
Sugarcane mold produces a neurotoxin, which is a toxic metabolite 3-nitropropionic acid produced by a few species such as Penicillium and Aspergillus. It is absorbed after entering the human body, and the onset time may be very urgent, ten minutes to ten hours.
Cause damage to the central nervous system in a short period of time, resulting in cerebral edema, headache, severe convulsions, stiff limbs and feet like chicken feet, and dilated pupils; Severe cases can lead to ischemia, respiratory failure and death. There are also some patients who are poisoned by sugarcane toxin and leave sequelae such as speech and movement disorders.
Only sugar cane before and after Qingming "poisoned snakes"?
The reason why Qingming Festival is related to sugar cane poisoning is because of warmer weather. The temperature in spring is rising, mold and other miscellaneous bacteria are suitable for growth and reproduction, and sugarcane is easy to mildew; Moldy sugarcane carries the risk of producing toxins, so most of the annual sugarcane poisoning incidents occur from February to April. Whenever sugarcane mold, it will also lead to poisoning.
Can you still eat it after chopping off the moldy part of the sugar cane?
Soft, discolored, wine-flavored, hairy, red heart sugar cane is not recommended to eat.
Many people think that it is no problem to cut off the moldy part of the sugar cane and eat the remaining sugar cane. In fact, this is a fatal misunderstanding. After the bacteria invade the sugar cane, the hyphae can be extended, and even if the moldy part is cut off, the remaining sugar cane has a large number of toxins that are invisible to the naked eye.
Can sugarcane juice still be drunk? If sugarcane mold, it is possible to produce toxins, and such sugarcane juice may have higher toxin content and greater risk of poisoning. Therefore, the squeezed "finished sugarcane juice" is best not to drink. Of course, if it is fresh sugarcane without mold, it is no problem to buy freshly squeezed sugarcane juice.
How to choose good sugar cane?
Look at the appearance and the central part: the sugar cane with black skin with red, smooth and white frost is relatively fresh. If the color of the sugarcane is poor, flocculent or hairy white substance appears at the end, and the cut profile has reddish yellow, tan, or blue-black spotted patches, indicating mildew, such sugarcane do not buy!
Touch hardness: fresh sugarcane has a hard texture, mildew sugarcane has a soft texture.
Identify whether there is a peculiar smell: the cane juice squeezed out of normal sugarcane is sweet and refreshing, with the unique fragrance of sugarcane, if you smell sour mold smell or lees smell and other peculiar smells, it means that it has deteriorated, such sugarcane can not be edible.
What to do if you eat moldy sugar cane?
Be sure to look closely when eating sugar cane recently
Once it is found that it has deteriorated, it should be decisively discarded
so as not to cause more harm
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