Zucchini, also known as horned gourd, is a vegetable and a common food on people's tables. And zucchini also has great medicinal value, but I remind, zucchini bitter best not to eat, or the consequences are very serious Oh!

Generally, the zucchini in the cultivation of the natural removal of cucurbitacin, can be safely eaten. But there are exceptions, if the zucchini and ornamental pumpkin and other plants hybridization, its fruit may be the formation of cucurbitacin. In addition, zucchini may also be hot weather, the environmental pressure to start the "self-protection" mechanism, the formation of bitter cucurbitacin, in order to reduce the likelihood of their being eaten.

Bitter cucurbits contain excessive amounts of cucurbitacin and other bitter toxic substances, toxins are not easily destroyed after heating, and consumption of cucurbits with high levels of alkaline glycoside toxins may lead to food poisoning. Misuse of bitter gourd a few hours after mild poisoning will occur dry mouth, dizziness, nausea, fatigue, drowsiness; severe poisoning manifested as nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, dehydration, stool with pus and blood and other symptoms, the body temperature is more normal. At this point, the patient is easy to be misdiagnosed as bacillary dysentery and miss the symptomatic treatment.

Alkaline glycoside toxin poisoning is currently no specific treatment drugs, mainly through vomiting, diuretic and symptomatic treatment to relieve, but also can drink more strong tea. Guangxi has had a number of such poisoning incidents. Bitter gourd and sweet gourd in appearance is not good to identify, but many bitter gourd shape like incandescent bulbs, compared with the sweet gourd appearance is longer and thinner, some appearance of bumpy, and has a bitter flavor like yellow lotus. Therefore, before eating gourds should be tongue lick taste whether there is a bitter flavor, such as bitter taste can not be eaten.

Here, I also want to remind you: under certain conditions, not only zucchini, cucumber, pumpkin and other cucurbits may appear in the fruit of cucurbitacin. Therefore, consumers once found zucchini, yellow squash or pumpkin has a bitter taste, do not eat.