Many people are not particular about their diet and eat food carelessly, which can easily lead to poisoning, causing symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting. In severe cases, it can even be fatal. The following 14 common foods can cause the aforementioned symptoms if consumed blindly, so please be very cautious when eating them.
1. Green Tomatoes
Green tomatoes have been found to contain a toxic substance called solanine. Eating unripe green tomatoes can cause a bitter taste in the mouth and lead to poisoning symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. Eating them raw is even more dangerous.
2. Rotten Ginger
Rotting ginger produces a highly toxic substance called safrole. Even in small amounts, this toxin can cause poisoning and degeneration of liver cells.
3. Rotten Cabbage
After eating rotten cabbage, a person can experience oxygen deprivation, leading to headaches, dizziness, nausea, and bloating. In severe cases, it can cause convulsions, coma, and even be life-threatening.
4. Yellow Tremella (Silver Ear Fungus)
Yellow tremella is caused by contamination with Flavobacterium. Eating it can cause poisoning symptoms such as dizziness, stomach pain, and diarrhea.
5. Sweet Potatoes with Black Spots
Black spots on sweet potatoes are caused by infection with black spot fungus, and eating them can easily lead to poisoning.
6. Sprouted Green Potatoes
The sprouts and green skin of sprouted potatoes (potatoes) contain a high level of solanine, which can easily cause poisoning. Therefore, sprouted and green-skinned potatoes should not be eaten.
7. Discolored Seaweed
If the seaweed turns bluish-purple after being soaked in cold water, it means the seaweed was contaminated with toxic substances before it was dried and packaged. This seaweed is harmful to the human body and should not be consumed.
8. Rootless Bean Sprouts
During the production process, herbicides are often used to make the bean sprouts grow without roots. Herbicides contain harmful substances that can cause cancer, birth defects, and mutations.
9. Plump Bean Sprouts
Bean sprouts grown with chemical fertilizers are white and plump, containing large amounts of residual ammonia. Under the action of bacteria, this can produce nitrosamine, and consuming large amounts can cause dizziness, nausea, and vomiting.
10. Moldy Tea
Moldy tea is the result of contamination with Penicillium and Aspergillus. Drinking tea made from moldy leaves can cause mild symptoms like dizziness and diarrhea, or in severe cases, necrosis of vital organs.
11. Unpickled Preserved Vegetables
If the amount of salt used for pickling is insufficient or the pickling time is less than 8 days, it can lead to nitrite poisoning.
12. Brown-Core Sugarcane
Decayed sugarcane has a black or brownish-brown core and tastes like alcohol. This is caused by infection with *Fusarium moniliforme* and the production of toxins.
13. Fresh Broad Beans
Some people may develop an allergic hemolytic syndrome after eating them, with symptoms such as general weakness and anemia.
14. Fresh Daylilies
Fresh daylilies are extremely toxic, while the dried variety is non-toxic because fresh daylilies contain colchicine, a toxin that can cause symptoms such as a dry throat, a burning sensation in the stomach, and bloody urine. However, if you first blanch the fresh daylilies in boiling water, then soak them in cold water for more than 2 hours (changing the water once), they become non-toxic.