What can kill us? - Yes, anything! Going for a walk, you can be bitten by a snake or other poisonous creature. If you are a resident of Florida or Australia, then you can easily eat a crocodile on a morning run. Nature does not spare us - forest fires, hurricanes, floods, mudflows. And how many ridiculous accidents happen?
But we hardly think of death when we enter the kitchen. Everything except knives seems harmless to us. But there is a long list of common products that can be deadly for us. TheBiggest.ru decided to understand this topic, and ... present the TOP-10 deadly products on your kitchen table.
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Nutmeg
Most of us see in nutmeg just an aromatic spice, a pleasant note of taste for coffee or another dish. But actually nutmeg is a powerful hallucinogen. It can lead to a breakdown of the central nervous system, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and even death. Two tablespoons will be enough to feel the above symptoms. Do not joke with this. Hundreds of cases have already been recorded when, for the sake of fun at a party or for a rally, people ended up in the hospital.
Nutmeg is an amazingly toxic product that you can freely buy at the grocery store. The line between a safe amount of spice and a toxic effect is very thin. Its effect is so powerful that even in history there are facts of the use of nutmeg to prevent pregnancy or fight plague.
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Apricot seeds
In the USA, it is difficult to buy unprocessed apricots in the grocery department of the store and there is a reason for this. It's all about the deadly apricot seeds. They contain the chemical element laetrile or amygdalin.
Many people believe that apricot seeds help cure cancer. The seeds are ground and sold as “Vitamin B17.” This is just a ruse of especially entrepreneurial people who want to cash in on someone else’s grief.
Amygdalin in the human body is converted to hydrogen cyanide. This is a deadly substance for humans. If you look, then many seeds of citrus or fruit fruits contain poison to one degree or another. But the substance that is found in apricot seeds in the intestine turns into cyanide. One must be very careful with this. Nevertheless, in Russia, apricot seeds are sold as a separate product, which can often be found in the neighborhood with nuts.
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Almond
In 2014, Whole Foods Publishing House recalled its toxic properties of grated almonds, which contain traces of hydrocyanic acid and amygdalin. When heated and reacted with acids, this substance turns into cyanide. Again, the same amygdalin that is found in apricot seeds. Raw almonds and apricots are easy to buy - these are market products with useful properties, but both can be deadly for us.
In fact, cyanide compounds are quite common in nature. If you eat something raw, there is always a chance of poisoning.
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Potatoes
Glycolipids are chemical compounds found in many plants, such as nightshade, tomatoes, and potatoes. All these plants contain solanine, a substance that is toxic in large doses. Symptoms of poisoning include vomiting, nausea, palpitations, dizziness, and the most dangerous are airway spasms that lead to death.
Yes, potatoes can kill. It is worth clarifying that only green potatoes are dangerous. You may have noticed that if you leave the potatoes in the sun, it will turn green. It is in this form that it can not be used. For an adult with a mass of 91 kilograms, 900 grams of green potato will be enough to get fatal poisoning. If you think about it, it’s a bit.
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Tomato bushes
Tomato bushes are also a potentially dangerous plant. The toxic substance is the same as in potatoes - solanine. If you suddenly want to eat not the tomatoes themselves, but a bush (hardly sure), then you will experience vomiting, dizziness, nausea, breathing problems, including death.
Conclusion - do not eat tomato leaves. An adult understands this, but unconscious children can try. Be careful! You can eat tomatoes yourself as much as you like.
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Hot dogs
Hot dogs are killers. How do you like the headline? You can believe it, you can not, but this seemingly simple snack (albeit not very healthy) is on the list of deadly food.
For Americans, a hot dog has been commonplace for decades. Of course, it does not contain frightening chemicals and poisons, but the danger of a hot dog is different.
A hot dog is the most common cause of suffocation while eating. This is not a joke, but a real fact. Every five days in America, one child dies of asphyxiation with food, and a hot dog is the most common reason for this.
Imagine a hot dog. The best object to suffocate is simply not to be found. Mouth opens, inhale - and now the slippery sausage is already in the throat. Therefore, this unpretentious product is rightfully on our list of deadly food.
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Fugu
Fugu is a fish from which the most dangerous dish on the planet is prepared. This fantastic puffer dinner can be enjoyed mainly in Japan.
As you may have guessed, this fish is very poisonous. A dish from it is expensive. Fish is only added as a side dish to the main ingredient. The poison in the fish is called tetrodotoxin, but it is found only in some parts of the fish. Harmless parts are served. To cook a puffer dish, a Japanese chef must have a special license and undergo a three-year internship.
Tetrodotoxin is 1200 times stronger than potassium cyanide. A tiny fraction is enough for a person to immediately fall and die. One fish is enough to send 30 people to the next world.
Symptoms of poisoning begin with a strong burning sensation in the mouth and tongue. Speech becomes slurred, as when intoxicated. The heart begins to beat unstable, intermittently. Then there is complete respiratory paralysis, suffocation and death.
There is no antidote to puffer poisoning, but sometimes the victim can survive if the poison is washed. Eating a fugu is a gamble in which the odds are fifty to fifty.
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Aki
Aki is a fruit that grows in West Africa, Jamaica, and parts of the Caribbean. Pear-shaped fruit, in one family with lychee (Chinese plum).
It is impossible to buy raw Aki in the USA, there is a federal ban on this. They can be found in canned form, but also in limited quantities. But in Jamaica, this is a national fruit that all islanders eat. We did not find information about the opportunity to buy this fruit in Russia. But we also did not find Aka fruit on the virtual shelves of Russian online stores selling exotic fruits.
If you eat immature aki, then so-called Jamaican vomiting can happen. A few hours after using aki, weakness, severe diarrhea, panic attacks, confused thoughts appear. In severe forms, a person can fall into a coma and die. The authorities of many countries are trying to limit the import of Aki in order to minimize the risks of poisoning.
Mature aki are completely safe. An opened fruit indicates full ripening.
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Cherry pits
Cherry is a very common and tasty berry that we all love. Today with a cherry aroma you can find different products - ice cream, juices, chewing gums.
But inside is a bone that can mortally poison you. The blame is still the same amygdalin. A cyanide compound capable of killing. Cherry is such an ordinary berry for us that not everyone thinks and knows about the outgoing danger.
Never swallow the whole cherry, always spit out the seeds. One man from Lanshire, UK, ate only three bones and suffered severe cyanide poisoning. Fortunately, they managed to help him and he survived.
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The apples
As in apricot and cherry seeds, in apples, the poison is in the seeds, but few people know about it. Cyanide poisoning manifests itself with a content of 0.5 - 3.5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. To be poisoned with apple seeds, you need to eat a lot of them.
One apple seed contains approximately 2 milligrams of amygdalin. You will need to consume 140-150 seeds for poisoning. One apple contains about eight seeds. You need to consume 18 apples at a time to get poisoned.
We almost never eat big apples completely. Throw out the bits. But ranetki, small apples often eat completely. Apparently, do not get involved in them. For the same reason, they categorically do not recommend giving apple seeds to dogs and some other domestic animals that are particularly susceptible to amygdalin.
What deadly foods do you know about? Please write the answers in the comments.
Article author: sergej1984