In June, it is the lychee season, but it is not uncommon to be hospitalized every year because of eating lychees!
What is "lychee disease"?
"Lychee disease", also known as acute poisoning of lychee, refers to the sudden hypoglycemia produced after eating fresh lychee in large quantities and on an empty stomach.
Symptoms such as dizziness, paleness, hunger, and cold sweats are usually present. Severe convulsions, irregular breathing, weak pulses, and even sudden coma can occur.
Simply put, "lychee disease" is a kind of hypoglycemia. Eating fresh lychees in large quantities and on an empty stomach is a direct cause of "lychee disease".
#甜到齁人却不那么胖人
Lychee tastes super sweet and gives people the feeling that the energy is also super high. Sweet because the lychee sugar content is as high as 15.2 g/100 g, only slightly lower than bananas (15.8 g/100 g).
But the fructose in lychees (7 g/100 g) is slightly higher than in bananas (6.7 g/100 g). Fructose is 1.5 times sweeter than sucrose and 2.1 times that of glucose, and fructose is sweeter at low temperatures, up to 1.7 times that of sucrose.
And lychees are easy to spoil, often low temperature refrigeration, so lychees taste extra sweet, sweet sensitive friends may feel that lychees eat sweet people.
#吃荔枝 "on fire" only because it is high in sugar
There is no concept of "fire" in modern medicine, which may correspond to symptoms such as mouth ulcers, acne, nosebleeds and so on. If you eat lychee after dry mouth or even ulcers, it may be because a large amount of sugar in the lychee has formed a high osmotic pressure in the mouth, like pickling pickles with salt, marinating the oral mucosa is uncomfortable, and after eating the lychee, there is no gargling, and the microbial breeding causes inflammation of the mucous membrane.
As for eating lychee acne, there is no scientific basis, because the study found that high GI may be related to acne; while lychee GI is not high, eating too much may also be low blood sugar.
#吃荔枝无需担心酒驾
If the packaging is poorly breathable during transportation, lychees may undergo anaerobic breathing and produce alcohol.
If the squeeze is injured, the yeast comes into contact with the sugar in the lychee and also ferments to produce alcohol.
The lychees eaten are very fresh, the slightest taste of wine can not be smelled, not much to eat, seven or eight or ten or so, there is no need to worry about testing drunk driving.
In case the blow shows drunk driving, you can ask to gargle after a while to blow, or even draw blood for a test, after all, the little bit of alcohol in the lychee is really not enough to cause the alcohol in the blood to exceed the standard.
#吃荔枝有什么禁忌?
What are the precautions
It is not advisable to eat too much at once or in a row
Eating a large number of fresh lychees will cause the human body to drop blood sugar, thirst, sweating, dizziness, diarrhea, and even coma and circulatory failure, which is medically called "lychee disease". Therefore, the consumption of lychees must not be excessive, especially the elderly, children and diabetics, eating 5 capsules a day is enough. Others eat lychees preferably no more than 300 grams (about 10-12) per day.
Soak thoroughly in salt water before serving
It is convenient to clean the dust, preservatives and pesticides on the surface of the lychee shell, and at the same time, after soaking in brine, the fire gas of the lychee is greatly reduced.
Do not eat on an empty stomach
It is best to consume half an hour after a meal.
Eat the fruit film
When peeling the shell of the lychee, there is a thin white film on the flesh, which is a bit astringent, and we usually peel it off. However, if you want to prevent fire, it is recommended to eat the film as well.
Fruits are complementary foods in the diet and cannot be dominated.
When it comes to the season when lychees are on the market, children can eat them in moderation, not too much. How much adults eat is appropriate, and the specific body constitution prevails.
Editor / Sun Chaohui
Source/ Encyclopedia