Daily health care requires attention to detail, especially in diet, which cannot be taken lightly. Whether your diet is healthy and reasonable is directly linked to your physical health. A moment of carelessness can lead to illness. Have you ever eaten these 10 foods raw?
One: Do not eat fresh daylilies raw.
Fresh daylilies contain colchicine, which turns into highly toxic colchicine oxide in the human body. Consuming 3-20 milligrams can be fatal.
Two: Do not eat water chestnuts raw.
Eating raw water chestnuts often allows the lancet fluke to enter the human body and attach to the intestinal mucosa, which can cause intestinal ulcers, diarrhea, or facial swelling.
Three: Do not eat white sugar raw.
Mites are often found in white sugar. Eating raw sugar can easily lead to acariasis. Mites are tiny, hairy insects invisible to the naked eye and reproduce quickly in sugar. If mites enter the gastrointestinal tract, they can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, and ulcers. If they enter the lungs, they can cause hemoptysis and asthma. If they enter the urinary tract, they can cause urinary tract inflammation. Therefore, white sugar should not be eaten raw and should be heated before consumption (heating to about 70°C for 3 minutes is sufficient).
Four: Do not eat honey raw.
When bees make honey, they often collect toxic pollen. When this toxic pollen is made into honey, eating raw honey can easily lead to poisoning. Furthermore, honey can easily be contaminated by bacteria during harvesting, transportation, and storage. Therefore, raw honey is not edible.
Five: Do not eat fresh wood ear mushrooms raw.
Fresh wood ear mushrooms contain porphyrin-like photosensitive substances. Eating them raw can cause solar dermatitis; in severe cases, it can lead to skin itching, edema, and pain.
Six: Do not drink soy milk raw.
Soy milk is delicious and its nutritional value is no lower than that of cow's milk. However, drinking unboiled soy milk can cause systemic poisoning. This is because raw soy milk contains some harmful components—trypsin inhibitors, phenolic compounds, and saponins. Trypsin inhibitors affect the digestion and absorption of protein; phenolic compounds can give soy milk a bitter and fishy taste; saponin irritates the digestive tract, causing vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea, which in turn destroys red blood cells, produces toxins, and leads to systemic poisoning.
Seven: Do not eat freshwater fish raw.
Clonorchis sinensis eggs develop into cercariae in snails in rivers and ponds and then parasitize in fish. If you eat raw freshwater fish, the Clonorchis sinensis will enter the human body and develop into adults, which can cause cholangitis in the human body and may even lead to cirrhosis.
Eight: Do not eat crabs and lobsters raw.
Raw crabs carry metacercariae of Paragonimus westermani and Vibrio parahaemolyticus, while lobsters are intermediate hosts for Paragonimus. After eating raw crabs and lobsters, Paragonimus enters the human body, causing lung damage. In severe cases, it can lead to intestinal inflammation or intestinal edema and congestion.
Nine: Do not eat raw eggs.
The avidin in egg white binds to biotin in the intestines, hindering the body's absorption of biotin. Raw eggs also often contain Salmonella, which can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
Ten: Do not eat beans raw.
Beans include lentils, kidney beans, string beans, sword beans, and green beans. Eating beans can easily cause poisoning because they contain a toxic protein called "lectin," which is most abundant in mature or older beans. Beans should be boiled or heated over high heat for more than 10 minutes to remove the "lectin." When stir-frying beans or using them as a filling, they must be thoroughly cooked. Even for cold bean dishes, they should be boiled for 10 minutes.