Authentic betel nut tastes bitter, but chewing it with fenugreek and shellac ash is different and has a sweet flavor. Betel nut fruit can be eaten, dip brine chewing, first-time chewers see red, chest tightness, is a normal phenomenon. Betel nut for a long time is loss of real gas, more service is diarrhea to the high gas, so should not be served more.

Frequent chewing of betel nut, in addition to serious damage to the teeth, resulting in red and black teeth, and even early loss, there is a high risk of cancer. As early as 2003, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) under the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified betel nut as a class 1 carcinogen.

Extended information

Betel nut is native to Malaysia, betel nut is mainly distributed in Southeast Asia, tropical Asia, East Africa and parts of Europe, the Pacific region is mainly distributed in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Micronesia, the sporadic distribution of the island of Pi?apé, the U.S. Marianas and the Marshall Islands, Hawaii and the Marshall Islands, the Hawaiian Islands betel nut planted only for ornamental purposes.

There are 36 known varieties of betel nut in the world, and people in different regions have different ways of categorizing these cultivars. For example, Hainan farmers divide betel nut into long-tipped and short-tipped species according to the inflorescence and fruiting, and there are big differences in yield, alkaloid content, medicinal value, and bio-ecological characteristics of different varieties of betel nut.

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