What symptom does sweet potato poison have?
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There are a lot of sweet potatoes at home. I just saw a piece of rotten sweet potato. I'm not willing to throw it away and eat it. Now I feel a little uncomfortable. I don't know if it's poisoned. What are the poisoning symptoms of rotten sweet potato?
What symptom does sweet potato poison have?
Black brown patches appear on the surface of sweet potato when it is contaminated by black spot pathogen (a kind of mold). The toxin produced by Alternaria alternata contains sweet potato ketone and sweet potato ketone alcohol, which can make sweet potato hard and bitter. The virulence produced by Alternaria alternata has a great impact on human liver. This toxin can not be destroyed by boiling, steaming and roasting. Therefore, both raw and cooked sweet potatoes with black spot can cause poisoning. The symptoms of mildew eating sweet potato poisoning were stomach discomfort, nausea, loss of appetite, and severe poisoning manifestations included vomiting, dizziness, limb fatigue, numbness, etc. The mortality was 16%.
Be careful when eating sweet potatoes on an empty stomach. For people with weak gastrointestinal function, eating sweet potato on an empty stomach can easily stimulate a large amount of gastric acid secretion, causing abdominal discomfort. People with normal gastrointestinal function have little influence on eating. It's best to eat hot after high temperature. Gastric ulcer, more acidic chronic gastritis people to eat less, so as not to aggravate the disease.
The main pathogenic fungus of black spot is the sweet potato long beak shell fungus. In addition, during the storage period, the damaged parts of sweet potato were infected with soft rot fungus, which caused soft rot of sweet potato. The damaged parts produced yellow liquid with wine taste. In the later stage, white villous hyphae and black particles were grown on the top. This kind of bacteria can make sweet potato produce toxic bitterness, also known as sweet potato ketone and its derivatives sweet potato alcohol, sweet potato Ning, people eat a lot of this toxic substance, can produce poisoning. Sweet potato ketone (bittern) and its derivatives can withstand high temperature, and its toxicity can not be destroyed by boiling, steaming and fermentation.
matters needing attention
Make sweet potato porridge. Worry about eating sweet potato abdominal distension, can be cooked with millet or glutinous rice porridge to drink, alleviate discomfort. Cook sweet potatoes. It can reduce the function of oxidase and abdominal distension by soaking sweet potato in brine for 10 minutes before cooking. Baked sweet potatoes. Microwave oven or oven can be used to bake sweet potatoes, which is safer than those bought outside. Roasted sweet potato has higher sugar content and tastes sweeter. Moreover, when the temperature of carbohydrate is above 120 ℃, aromatic substances will be produced, and the cooking temperature can not reach.
