If summer is green, then autumn must be yellow.
The middle and late November is a good time to enjoy ginkgo biloba. During the weekend, I will make an appointment with three to five friends to see ginkgo biloba, enjoy autumn scenery and get together well.
At this time of year, in addition to ginkgo lovers, people can always be seen picking up ginkgo under the tree with bags, and even people come specially to pick up ginkgo.
But do you know that if you eat ginkgo incorrectly, you may be poisoned. What you pick up home is not necessarily healthy, but also harmful.
The nutrition of ginkgo is not magical.
Ginkgo biloba (scientific name: Ginkgo biloba) is actually the seed kernel of ginkgo biloba. It is also called duck foot seed, Lingyan, Buddha finger orange and ginkgo fruit.
One of the main reasons why many people pick up ginkgo on the road is that they think ginkgo is of high nutritional value. People always say that ginkgo is a high-grade tonic rich in nutrition. Regular consumption of ginkgo can beautify, resist aging and prevent cardiovascular diseases.
1. Good for cardiovascular diseases
From the point of view of nutrition analysis, ginkgo is a kind of nut, which is rich in vitamins, minerals and polyunsaturated fatty acids. It is indeed a good nut food. Scientists have also found that eating nuts properly is beneficial to cardiovascular health, so ginkgo is still a healthy food.
2. No cosmetic and anti-aging effects
As for ginkgo beauty and anti-aging, It is totally unreliable. Ginkgo does contain rich plant antioxidants, but they are not good for beauty and anti-aging in what. Moreover, eating more antioxidants is not good either. Besides, many vegetables and fruits in our daily life contain antioxidants, and ginkgo does not necessarily have what’s antioxidant advantages.
Generally speaking, ginkgo is a healthy nut food, but it does not have what’s magical health effect.
Although ginkgo is good, you should also be careful of poisoning.
Ginkgo not only has no magical health effect, from the safety analysis point of view, it also hides a huge risk, if you are not careful, you will have a problem, it is best not to eat casually. Because it lurks in its body a highly toxic substance that may make people poisoned-cyanide.
When it comes to cyanide, many people think of murder and high toxicity. How toxic is cyanide? It can be said that cyanide is even more toxic than arsenic.
Cyanide can inhibit the respiration of cells and is therefore harmful to humans and animals. Once poisoned, people may suffer from acute poisoning symptoms including vomiting, nausea, headache, dizziness, bradycardia, convulsions, respiratory failure and eventually death.
Cyanide may be present in ginkgo. Generally speaking, cyanide in plants such as ginkgo is usually in the form of cyanoside. If you eat it in large quantities, you may still be poisoned.
In fact, cyanide is not unique to ginkgo.
Not only ginkgo, but also the seeds of many Rosaceae plants contain cyanoside, such as peach, cherry, sand fruit, pear, plum, loquat and cherry nucleoli also contain cyanoside.
Of course, the pulp of these fruits does not contain cyanoside.
Be Careful in Eating Ginkgo
In general, there may be cyanide in ginkgo, so you must be careful when eating it.
The good news is, Cyanoside itself is non-toxic, Only when the structure of plant cells is destroyed can the intracellular-glucosidase hydrolyze cyanoside to produce toxic hydrocyanic acid, which can cause acute poisoning in human beings. Moreover, cyanoside is very afraid of heat and will be destroyed once exposed to high temperature. Thoroughly heating is the most effective way to remove cyanoside. Studies have found that boiling can remove more than 90% of cyanoside.
Therefore, the common way to eat ginkgo in the world is not to eat it raw, but to eat it after full heating.
Ginkgo will have a bitter almond flavor when eaten raw. It tastes astringent and not delicious. Therefore, to prevent poisoning from eating ginkgo, one must first do not eat it raw, let alone blindly pick it up and eat it at home because of superstition about its nutrition.
If you really want to eat, you also need to be careful. Cyanoside is very afraid of heat, so it is best to fully heat it before eating ginkgo. The ginkgo after heating treatment not only tastes better, but also is safer and more assured.
In addition to adults, children should also be educated well and do not eat ginkgo raw!