Just search online and you will find the contents of various foods to prevent cancer, such as dandelion. After spring every year, people in many parts of the north will pick dandelions and soak them in water to eat them cold. It is the most sought-after ingredient in health food, which can almost seal the gods. There seems to be no disease that dandelion cannot prevent!

Then the problem is coming. It is said that dandelion root can kill 98% cancer cells within 48 hours. Is there really a scientific basis for this?

In fact, the rumor that dandelion can prevent cancer is not groundless. It originated from an article on 20 16, entitled dandelion root can kill cancer cells, and 98% of cancer cells can die within 48 hours.

The content on this website is a news and report from Canada on 20 12; According to the news, Dr. Pandi from the University of Windsor and his research team found that dandelion root extract has anti-cancer effect, especially for chronic myeloid leukemia.

However, the article does not mention that dandelion root can kill 98% cancer cells within 48 hours;

The truth of the experiment at that time was that within 48 hours, dandelion extract dissolved in water attacked rectal cancer cells in experimental test tubes, selectively inducing cell death, and the mortality rate was as high as 95%!

Although this experiment can prove that dandelion root extract has a killing effect on cancer cells, it is only an experimental stage in vitro. The extract is a purified substance, which does not directly indicate that eating dandelion root can kill cancer cells.

In the opinion of experts, plants themselves and substances extracted from plants are essentially two different things.

Because the substance extracted from food, either its content in food is extremely low, or after extraction, after a series of extraction and scientific operations, it is absolutely different from the original food.

Taking Houttuynia cordata as an example, it contains quercetin, which has been proved to have the effect of inhibiting virus, so many health articles directly point out that Houttuynia cordata can fight cancer.

But in fact, the content of quercetin in Houttuynia cordata Thunb is quite low, even if it is eaten once, it can't reach the dose and concentration needed for anti-cancer!

In other words, a certain plant or food and an anticancer component extracted from a certain plant cannot be directly equated.

At present, no wild vegetable or food has been proved to have anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects, so the anti-cancer of food and wild vegetables is a pseudoscientific proposition. Dandelion directly soaks in water to prevent cancer, which is even more idiotic!