Ten common food poisoning is easy to eat the wrong position part 2

6. Red Hot Chili Peppers
Toxicology: capsaicin
Toxic parts: red pepper
Eaten in your life, more or less red pepper, whatever food is particularly spicy or not too hot, you eat red peppers contain each of a chemical called capsaicin. In red pepper, the capsaicin is the initiator of spicy. Of course, no problem eating a red pepper, but if you eat too much to a certain amount, it may be fatal. This chemical is a powerful, people even use them as a paint remover to do the police use of pepper spray. Such as red pepper in spicy Havana, where the content of capsaicin amazing, so that if you cut the peppers, the skin will immediately feel a burning pain.
Tips: Red Hot Chili Peppers especially rich in vitamin C, and green pepper in a pod-dimensional C content is said to have its six times.
7. Cashews
Toxicology: urushiol
Toxic parts: raw cashew nuts
Although not a plant but the seeds of nuts, but cashews have a similar shell structure and growth of the fruit. When you buy in the store "raw cashews", they must buy steamed, not completely raw. This is because the raw cashew contains urushiol, which is poison ivy in the can find the same kind of toxic chemical substance that enables the body to exposure to poison ivy and poison oak the same response. Intake of urushiol can be fatal. Although relatively rare cases of poisoning cashew nuts, shelled them, but the close contact with production workers, and sometimes have hidden side effects.
Tips: cashew nuts in a fruit came from this fruit native to South American countries. People used to eat the fruit, put the seeds (cashews) to throw it away.
8. Mushrooms
Toxicology: muscimol and other factors
Toxic parts: 5% of the mushrooms
In the United States about five thousand kinds of mushrooms, of which about a hundred reportedly toxic, and can be fatal in less than ten. However, mushrooms or may cause gastrointestinal discomfort. Because of the nature of fungi and mushrooms have so many species, it is difficult to determine which toxic drugs that do not. See rule of thumb, we usually say that the wild mushrooms are potentially toxic. Muscimol prime mushroom toxin is one of the most deadly, it can cause serious liver damage. We are talking about one of mushroom is poisonous mushrooms.
Tips: The existing 38,000 kinds of known mushroom species, of which 5% of the toxic.
9. Puffer fish
Toxicology: tetrodotoxin
Toxic parts: some organs
Puffer fish is the second drug in vertebrates. Although you can not eat in the United States, but many Koreans and Japanese think that some of the fish meat is very delicious. However, some organs such as liver, is highly toxic fatal. The scientific name of fish toxins tetrodotoxin, which can cause high blood pressure, muscle paralysis and other symptoms, and lead poisoning because the diaphragm muscle paralysis, apnea and death. For many Asians, this dangerous delicacy fugu, or could not refuse.
Tips: Emperor of Japan is now eating puffer fish is illegal.
10. Cassava (manioc)
Poison: Cyanide
Toxic parts: cassava
Although not common in the United States, but like the cassava shrub widely distributed in the Caribbean and South America. The use of cassava for food when it can be made of bitter sweet. It all depends on taste and odor of cyanide in the amount of students, this substance is highly toxic. Most people who are willing to eat like the bitter cassava because the smell will drive away insects and even animals. If you eat cassava did not do the preparatory work before, it is likely to kick in. After the. Because the rich in cyanide toxicity of cassava diseases may lead to nerve palsy, can cause permanent paralysis.
Tips: the composition of cassava roots and flour are similar can then be extracted from the production of manioc flour. Cassava leaves contain cyanide, but if it mashed together with flour and put in the shade for five hours ahead, cyanide will break down