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Are fresh ginkgo berries poisonous?

Fresh ginkgo nuts are poisonous.

Ginkgo biloba fruit is commonly known as raw white fruit, ripe fruit is golden yellow, similar to kumquat shape. As the ginkgo fruit contains traces of hydrocyanic acid, which is a harmful component of the body, especially the green germ part of the ginkgo fruit has the highest content of toxins, excessive consumption will appear vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, and even respiratory difficulties and other toxic phenomena, so the ginkgo fruit can not be eaten raw, and can not be eaten more.

Long in the roadside ginkgo trees, near the road, absorbing car exhaust, the ginkgo biloba and fruit caused some pollution, the plants in the green belt may also contain pesticides, so do not blindly pick and take.

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Ginkgo biloba fruit eating taboos:

1, ginkgo biloba fruit can not be eaten raw, cooked up to 4 to 5 a day to eat, eat 10 to 50 on the risk of poisoning.

Poisoning first nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and then began to agitation, fear of strange screams, and gradually limb weakness, and even respiratory difficulties, pulmonary edema and coma. Contact with the kernel and fleshy outer skin may also cause dermatitis.

2, eat ginkgo nuts when removing the green germ in the kernel, avoid contact with the kernel.?

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