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    Three hundred lychees every day, Su Dongpo, why are you not afraid of getting angry if you eat so many lychees!

    • Last Update: 2021-06-29
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    Lychees have always been known as the "King of Fruits", and it will soon be the season to eat lychees
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    I bought a bunch of lychees and was about to start eating.
    Suddenly someone said that eating lychees would make people angry.
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    what is going on? Is the lychee really getting angry?
     
    Will lychee "get angry" after eating it?
     
    "Getting on fire" is actually a folk saying, and there is currently no clear scientific definition
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    However, many people say that after eating lychee, many people will have some symptoms, such as dry mouth, nausea, weakness of the limbs, dizziness, bleeding gums, fever or acne attacks, etc.
    Many people attribute them to "getting up"
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    Let's first analyze the possible causes of these symptoms one by one
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    [Dry mouth and tongue]: Lychee is high in sugar, high sugar will make the mouth in a hypertonic state, so the mouth will feel dry
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    [Acne]: The big reason why lychees are delicious is because it is sweet, which means that the sugar is high
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    If you eat too much lychee, you will consume a lot of sugar, and high sugar will increase your blood sugar load
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    A high glycemic load diet can exacerbate acne
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    Therefore, if you eat a lot of lychees, acne may occur
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    As for many other uncomfortable reactions, such as nosebleeds, sore throat, fever, and other symptoms, they may not necessarily be related to eating lychees.
    They are just a wrong summary of everyone's life experience
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    For example, someone happened to have fever, sore throat and even nosebleed after eating lychee, so he suspected the problem of lychee, but at the same time, he stayed up late and played games for a few days.
    Much easier
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    [Weak limbs, dizziness]: Lychee contains a lot of fructose, and fructose can also cause people to "get angry" and discomfort
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    Fructose needs to be converted into glucose in the liver before it can be used by us.
    This conversion process requires energy
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    If you eat a lot of lychees, you feel full, but we don't get enough glucose
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    Without glucose, many body tissues, including the brain, cannot function normally, and uncomfortable reactions will occur
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    Three hundred lychees every day, Su Dongpo, why are you not afraid of getting angry if you eat so many lychees!
     
    As for many other uncomfortable reactions, such as nosebleeds, sore throat, fever, etc.
    , they may not necessarily be related to eating lychee.
    It just happens that some symptoms occur at the same time as eating a large amount of lychee, which causes everyone to form a wrong life experience.
    Summary
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    For example, someone happened to have fever, sore throat and even nosebleed after eating lychee, so he suspected the problem of lychee, but at the same time, he stayed up late and played games for a few days.
    Much easier
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    For example, Xiao Ming ate ten pounds of lychees and happened to be exposed to the sun all afternoon, causing symptoms such as heatstroke and dizziness; or Li Lei ate five pounds of lychees and accidentally caught a cold, so he transferred the cause to the lychee head.
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    As a result, the reputation of lychee has been infinitely magnified
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    However, the ripening season of lychees coincides with the scorching heat, bacteria are easy to breed, and the body's resistance will become weaker.
    This period is also a period of frequent human discomfort.
    Every year there are reports of seeing a doctor because of excessive consumption of lychees
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    People are more likely to associate litchi with discomfort such as getting angry
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    Therefore, it is better to relax when you encounter delicious lychees
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    What kind of lychee is considered Peugeot?
     
    For those of us who love to eat, what we care most is of course how to choose good lychees
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    No matter how good the lychees are, there is no extremely bright color and no variegated color.
    Most lychees are either red with green, red with white, or light red with dark red.
    These lychees are relatively fresh.

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    And that kind of lychee, which is extremely bright and does not see any variegated colors, may have been artificially processed, although it is not necessarily harmful
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    However, if the lychee peel appears black or brown, it is probably because the lychee has deteriorated or is contaminated by microorganisms, so it is best not to buy it
    .

    When choosing lychees, try to choose those that look smooth and smooth on the outside
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    If the peel is dry, then this kind of lychee may have been stored for a long time; carefully observe the lychee lobes, which are what we call scales.
    If the lychee lobes are small and tight, then this kind of lychee is not yet mature.
    The lobes are relatively large and regular, and the maturity and taste of litchi will be relatively good
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    You can also observe the junction of the lower stalk and the peel, because the lychee is the weakest part, and the pests are most likely to take advantage of it.
    If there are pests or worm holes in this part of the lychee, it means that the lychee may have been patronized by the pests
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    China's agricultural industry standard "Litchi Grade Specifications" classifies different lychees, among which special grade is the best, followed by first and second grades
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    It can be seen that the special-grade lychees are full-bodied and ruddy in color; while the relatively poorer (second-grade) lychees are black and shriveled
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    Different grades of lychees, picture from: NYT 1648-2008 Lychee grade specifications
     
    Don’t eat too much lychee
     
    On the whole, the popular saying about eating lychee is not necessarily related to lychee
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    However, what needs to be reminded here is that due to the high sugar content and high fructose content, it is indeed easy to be uncomfortable to eat too much lychee at one time, and it is also reminded that everyone should not eat too much lychee at one time
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    In fact, one of the main concepts of a healthy diet is to eat a balanced diet.
    "Balanced" means to eat every kind of food in moderation and not too much
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    China's latest diet pagoda recommends that adults eat 200 to 350 grams of fruit a day
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    As the saying goes, nutrition and health are mainly about a balanced diet.
    Eating more is also an unhealthy habit
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    Therefore, although lychees are good, don't be greedy
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