6 familiar foods containing highly toxic substances

Even though these may be your favorite dishes, you should still limit them and be careful in choosing ingredients and preparing them.

Toad meat

Toad meat is good for the elderly, malnourished children, slow growth, and rickets. However, the liver and ovaries can cause poisoning because they contain bufotoxine, an extremely toxic substance that can cause death in a very short time. People with liver and toad egg poisoning may have symptoms such as bloating, upper abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, anxiety, and rapid heartbeat.

If not treated promptly, the victim may fall into a state of cardiovascular collapse, sensory disturbances, dizziness, hallucinations, cold sweats, difficulty breathing, respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest, etc. Therefore, experts recommend absolutely not eating toad liver and eggs. In addition, during the process of butchering, if these parts get caught in the toad meat, it is also very dangerous.

Blood cockles

Blood cockles are a super nutritious seafood with great flavor, but they contain many types of bacteria and viruses that cause disease. Blood cockles carry hepatitis and typhoid bacteria.

Grass carp

Grass carp meat is delicious and nutritious, and is always the fish that many housewives choose to buy and prepare for family meals. However, grass carp bile is very toxic because it contains alcohol that causes bleeding and damage to internal organs, especially the kidney tubules. The larger the fish, the higher the toxicity.

Not only grass carp, other types of fish such as common carp, silver carp, and silver carp can cause acute kidney failure, but the most serious is grass carp bile. People who drink grass carp bile often have symptoms of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, slow reaction, yellow eyes, and little urine. Therefore, when processing this type of fish, you need to be careful to remove all the bile to protect the health of yourself and your family.

Starfish

Jellyfish are invertebrates that live in the sea or in saltwater. Jellyfish salads or vermicelli dishes are delicious. However, eating jellyfish during their breeding season is very dangerous because they often accumulate many toxins that can cause food poisoning, affecting human health.

Live jellyfish contain many toxins, accidentally touching them will cause allergies, burning, and stinging. According to medical experts, when jellyfish toxins enter the human body, they can cause headaches, chest pain, cyanosis, sweating, difficulty breathing, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and prolonged diarrhea, rapid, weak pulse, low blood pressure... To ensure safety, the milk must be processed thoroughly, the jellyfish must be soaked three times in salt water, alum to remove the toxins... before use.

Clouded Goby

In our country, cloud goby fish are concentrated in the coastal provinces of the Central region. According to scientists, cloud goby fish contains the toxin Tetrodotoxin, similar to the toxin of puffer fish. This is one of the substances that is 275 times more toxic than cyanide and 50 times more toxic than strychnine. Tetrodotoxin is not decomposed at high temperatures. Therefore, even if cloud goby fish is thoroughly cooked, people who eat the fish will still be poisoned.

It is necessary to distinguish between the marbled goby and the goby that we often eat to avoid poisoning.

Puffer fish

Many countries in the world, especially Japan, pay great attention to instructing people on how to prepare this type of fish. Immediately after catching, users must remove the internal organs of the puffer fish, and when eating, avoid eating dead or spoiled fish.

The reason why puffer fish eggs are so poisonous is because they contain tetrodotoxin (C11H17O8N3), a neurotoxin that is very toxic and causes high mortality. In particular, tetrodotoxin is soluble in water and is not destroyed by heat. When cooked, dried, or baked, the toxin still exists.

According to Ngoisao.net