Fruits to avoid overeating in spring for health preservation.

Most people know what foods to eat in the spring to promote their health. But do you know what foods, if eaten in excess, can cause problems in the spring?

Sugarcane

The sugarcane available in the spring is mostly from the autumn harvest. After being stored for a whole winter, it is highly prone to spoilage, with white, cottony or fluffy substance appearing at the tip. After cutting it, there may also be red, thread-like substances on the cross-section. Some people fail to select sugarcane carefully and, upon seeing the red threads after cutting, mistake it for a normal phenomenon, leading to sugarcane poisoning after consumption.

Pineapple

Some people experience allergic reactions after eating pineapple, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, numbness of the lips, and itchy skin. This is because pineapple contains bromelain and glycosides. To prevent allergic reactions, pineapple should be soaked in light salt water for more than ten minutes after cutting to destroy the bromelain before eating.

Braised Pork Ribs with Pineapple

Banana

To make banana peels tender and yellow for a better appearance, some unscrupulous merchants use excessive sulfur dioxide to ripen them, but the flesh remains hard and not sweet at all. Sulfur dioxide is harmful to the human body. The correct method should be to ripen them with heat.

Grapes

Some unscrupulous merchants and growers mix ripening agent ethylene with water in a certain proportion, and then soak unripe green grapes in the diluted solution. After a day or two, the green grapes will turn purple.

Strawberry

In traditional Chinese medicine, strawberries are believed to reduce internal heat, relieve summer heat, and clear heat. In the spring, people's liver fire is often more vigorous, and eating strawberries can help suppress this. Additionally, it is best to eat strawberries after a meal because they contain a large amount of pectin and fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal motility, aid digestion, improve constipation, and prevent the occurrence of hemorrhoids and colorectal cancer.