Can't eat, ginkgo fruit skin and meat, foul-smelling poisonous, can not eat, we usually eat ginkgo fruit is ginkgo biloba kernel. Ginkgo biloba kernel is pointed at both ends, the center is large, flat and rounded with ribs. Remove the shell, get the kernel, is edible part. Ginkgo biloba kernel contains ginkgol, ginkgolic acid and hydrogenated ginkgo biloba acid, phlegm, cough, tonic lungs, menstruation, diuretic effect. In recent years, drug studies have found that the ginkgo biloba fruit also has an antibacterial effect, can inhibit the growth of tuberculosis bacillus, staphylococcus, paratyphoid bacillus, Escherichia coli and diphtheria bacillus, and thus ginkgo biloba fruit has become the treatment of lung disease of the special medicine.

Ginkgo nuts can not be eaten raw, fried before eating. Because ginkgo nuts contain amygdalin, water will decompose hydrocyanic acid, hydrocyanic acid is highly toxic, after being absorbed into the body, it can be and the body cells in a variety of cytochromes combined, so that the loss of red blood cells in the oxygen transport to the cells, thus leading to cellular asphyxia. Nausea, vomiting, dizziness, fatigue, rapid pulse, deepened breathing and even coma will occur within 2-6 hours after eating.