One, the benefits of betel nut: betel nut contains a variety of nutrients and beneficial substances needed by the human body.

Betel nut also contains more than 20 kinds of trace elements, 11 of which are essential trace elements. Betel nut seeds contain 0.3%-0.6% total alkaloids, mainly betel nut alkaloids, and contains a small amount of betel nut alkaloids, demethyl betel nut alkaloids, iso-demethyl betel nut alkaloids, betel nut parabasic alkaloids and high betel nut alkaloids, etc., which are present in the collection of tannins. There are also ellagitannins, fats, mannitol, galactose, sucrose, catechin, epitaxanthin, colorless anthocyanin, betel red pigment, saponin and a variety of proto-catechin dimers, trimers, tetramers and so on.

Two, the hazards of betel nut

Betel nut contains carcinogenic alkaloids, leading to oral cancer, many people are currently suffering from oral cancer because of betel nut.

Long-term eating and chewing betel nut will make people's teeth black, betel nut after chewing, the residue will be spit on the ground, red stains, like blood stains, affecting the public **** hygiene.

Expanded Information:

Betel nut is of high economic value, and it can be planted in 1500-2000 plants per hectare. 2000 plants per hectare. Chinese betel nut varieties with high yield, single plant yield up to about 30kg, high economic value. China's Hainan, Taiwan, Hunan and other areas of the masses since ancient times have the habit of consuming betel nut, is the main chewing food. Only the processing output value of 3.5 billion yuan, providing employment of 200,000 jobs, the market potential, with the injection of science and technology, deep-processed products are rich in variety, the consumer market is gradually expanding, the market outlook is better.

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