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In May, many seasonal fruits went on the market, and some related rumors were also spread on the Internet.
For example, the red and sweet watermelon was given an injection and the ripened mango was poisonous.
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These claims are not reliable
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Is the watermelon red and sweet by injection? Don't believe it
About 60.
1 million | Baidu search results
Rumor: In the summer, the rumors of "watermelon injections" came out again, claiming that melon farmers inject red pigments and sweeteners to make the watermelon red and sweet in order to sweeten it
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The truth: Ruan Guangfeng, director of the Science and Technology Department of the Kexin Food and Health Information Exchange Center, refuted the rumor on the Tencent Science Popularization Platform, saying that in reality, the "injection" of watermelon is very poor, whether it is to inject hormones, sugar water or watermelons into watermelons.
Pigment will not make the watermelon red and sweet
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Conversely, injections may also cause the flesh of the melon to rot and deteriorate, greatly shortening the storage time of the watermelon
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Can't eat mango during menstrual period? Eat what you want
About 33.
7 million | Baidu search results
Rumor: It is the time to eat mangoes.
There are rumors on the Internet that mangoes have hemostatic effects.
Girls should not eat mangoes during their menstrual period, otherwise they may cause uterine fibroids
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The truth: There is an article on the Dingxiang doctor platform that mango has no hemostatic effect, and in the current research, there is no reliable evidence that mango will affect the incidence of uterine fibroids
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Therefore, mangoes do not have any strange effects.
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Is ripe mango poisonous? not at all
About 6.
31 million | Baidu search results
Rumor: Internet rumors claim that some vendors use quicklime and ethephon to ripen mangoes, which is harmful to health
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The truth: An article on the Dingxiang Doctor platform stated that using ethephon to ripen is a standard operation in modern agriculture, and the use of lime is not illegal
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Vendors treat mangoes that are not in production areas or in season in this way.
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The bayberry washes out the white insects and can't eat it? Harmless to human body
About 399,000 | Baidu search results
Rumor: There are rumors that when washing bayberry, small white worms will be found crawling out.
Such bayberry cannot be eaten
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The truth: Ruan Guangfeng said that the edible part of the bayberry is not protected by the peel.
Insects can easily invade the fruit to lay eggs, and it is easy to give birth to small white worms
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This is a kind of fruit fly larva, but this fruit fly larva is born to eat the fruit flesh, live on the nutrition of the fruit, will not carry infectious bacteria, even if it is accidentally eaten, the acidity of the body’s gastric juice can kill the fruit fly Larvae are not harmful to the human body
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Are lychees treated with preservatives poisonous? not at all
About 50,000 | Baidu search results
Rumor: When lychees are on the market, there are rumors that vendors use fungicides and preservatives to treat lychees, which will make lychees poisonous
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The truth: Yun Wuxin, a PhD in food safety at Purdue University in the United States, said that in industry standards, bleaching powder solution, other fungicides, preservatives, and other "chemical solutions" are allowed to keep litchi fresh
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"Litchi is a tropical fruit.
