A Dose of Poison Every Day??!

A lot of us think that nothing can be healthier than fruit and vegetables, that is why we try to eat as much as possible vegetable and fruit daily, but a few of us know that some of them contain poisonous stuff that can be deathly. So here are some of fruit and vegetables which we must be more careful with:

1.       Almond. It has a unique taste and is one of the basic ingredients in desserts coking. The most flavourous is bitter almond that contains poisonous cyanides. It comes through the heat treatment to remove the poison.

2.       Cashew. Cashew is the seed of cashew “apple”. Being sold, they undergo the steam treatment. Unroasted cashews contain urushiol that provokes allergy symptoms.  Despite cashew poisoning is a rare occasion, workers who peel off cashews often have side effects such as skin allergies, etc.

3.       Cherry pips. Cherries, apricots, peaches, plums and even apples contain cyanides in their pips. So if you scrunch a lot of pips (of course, we don’t mean a few pips scrunched by chance), you risk to get poisonous. The symptoms are headache, headrush, vomit and disorientation. At high doses it can lead to respiratory affection, rise in blood pressure, kidney failure and even lethal outcome.

4.       Asparagus. The eatable part of asparagus is its scape or leaves. The fruit itself (red berries of asparagus) are poisonous for humans.

5.       Tomatoes. The leaves of tomatoes contain glycoalcaloid that can provoke headache, nervousness and indigestion. Some part of this substance is also contained in green tomatoes.

6.        Green potatoes also contain glycoalcaloid, but they also contain solanine that in large amounts provoke vomit, indigestion and in hard cases even lead to coma and lethal outcome.

7.       Chocolate. It’s not poisonous for people but it contains theobromine that is poisonous for cats and dogs. Moreover, it is not very good for aged people.

8.       Mushrooms. Mushrooms are considered as delicacy in many countries of the world, but there are poisonous fungi that are very harmful for humans. To avoid mushroom poisoning you need to know the ropes about this matter.