The moldy fruit will produce large amounts of aflatoxin, highly carcinogenic!

Aflatoxin (AFT) is a class of compounds with a similar chemical structure, are dihydrofuran coumarin derivatives. Aflatoxin is mainly produced by Aspergillus flavus (aspergillus flavus) Aspergillus parasiticus (a.parasiticus) secondary metabolites, in hot and humid areas of food and feed in the highest chance of aflatoxin.

They exist in the soil, plants and animals, all kinds of nuts, especially easy to contaminate peanuts, corn, rice, soybeans, wheat and other grain and oil products, is the mycotoxin in the most toxic, the most prominent class of mycotoxins on human health hazards.

Powerful carcinogenic

In 1993, aflatoxin was classified as a class 1 carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Agency for Research on Cancer (ARC), and is a highly toxic and highly toxic substance. Aflatoxin is harmful to human and animal liver tissue has a destructive effect, serious cases can lead to liver cancer and even death. In the natural contamination of food to aflatoxin B1 is the most common, its toxicity and carcinogenicity is also the strongest.

B1 is the most dangerous carcinogen, often detected in corn, peanuts, cotton seeds and some dried fruits. They can produce fluorescence under ultraviolet irradiation, according to the fluorescence color, it will be divided into two categories of B and G and their derivatives.AFT has been found more than 20 kinds.AFT mainly contaminate cereals and oil foods, animal and plant foods, etc.; such as peanuts, corn, rice, wheat, beans, nuts, meat, milk and dairy products, aquatic products, etc. are contaminated with aflatoxin.