Food Science and You (21)Taro
Q: Can eat more of the taro? Seeing folk information, saying that eating more is toxic, is it correct?
A: Eat more taro will be flatulence, because the starch key of the taro is very short, it has less cellulose, the starch key is short, there is no way to produce digestive enzymes in the body, the secretion of gastric acid and the whole digestion process will be reduces and flatulence. What they say “toxic”, that is, it cannot be digested. Any food that can not be digested can produce toxic effects. It seems that if the protein is eaten and cannot be digested, then it will cause amine poisoning, so many people say that meat should not be eaten too much. Eat too much, if not completely digested, will produce free radicals, there will be a risk of cancer.
On the other hand, the taro is Araceae, which is the name of the plant classification. It seems that the rice is the Poaceae, the bean is the leguminous, the mimosa is the mimosa flower, the general musk of the Araceae family, not necessarily the taro. As long as there is this mucus, contact with the skin, the skin will be allergic, red and swollen, and there will be a toxin similar to the black-headed tree, which is very poisonous. When you were archery in Africa and other places, the head of the arrow With aconite tree of the Araceae family, as long as it is shot, no one is alive.
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