2. Sugarcane is usually listed in autumn, but in many supermarkets, sugar cane is sold all winter, even in spring, so that people who like it can eat it at any time. However, most of the sugarcane in spring is stored in autumn. After a winter, it is easy to deteriorate, and a flocculent or fluffy white material appears at the end of the sugarcane. After cutting, there will be red silk on the section. Some people didn't choose sugar cane carefully when they bought it, but they thought it was normal to see red silk after cutting it, which led to sugar cane poisoning after eating it.
3, moldy sugarcane is very toxic, which contains a neurotoxin 3-nitropropionic acid, and the symptoms after poisoning are mainly central nervous system damage. Generally speaking, after eating sugarcane for 2-8 hours, vomiting, dizziness, headache, visual impairment, and then stiff limbs are obvious symptoms of sugarcane poisoning, which can even lead to coma and death.
4. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sugarcane has the function of nourishing and clearing away heat, and it has certain curative effect on treating hypoglycemia, constipation, nausea and vomiting, cough and asthma caused by lung dryness, and can also relieve sore throat. However, people with chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and dyspepsia and diabetics should not eat it.