Eggplant the older the more “safe”

We all know that not to eat sprouted potatoes, because the potatoes will have germinated when the solanine. But you certainly do not know, eggplant also contain such substances, it is called glycoalkaloids (solanine).

Solanine has a strong heart, blood pressure, inhibit cancer cells, inhibit the role of micro-organisms, etc. It is the role of one of the sources of health eggplant; but the body also occur when a high intake of poisoning.

Research found that not all cooked eggplant, the eggplant higher alkali content than the mature eggplant. Sheng mining phase of the high alkali content of eggplant in the eggplant, while the fast pull-down eggplant seedlings, when taken with low alkali content in eggplant.

Determination also found that skin color shades of eggplant and eggplant glycoalkaloids content in a great relationship, high levels of eggplant purple and green eggplant low levels. In other words, the deeper the color of eggplant, the higher levels of solanine.

However, solanine does not exist in the eggplant skins, which mainly exist in the flesh. Therefore, want to use eggplant skin cut off approach to avoid the intake of toxins is invalid.

At the same time, solanine basically do not dissolve in water, so hot with Zhuo, boiled and other methods can not be removed. The only way is to control intake.

Fortunately, the lower the alkali content of eggplant in the eggplant, the highest species no more than 0.8 milligrams per gram dry weight, converted into fresh eggplant, probably to eat 450 grams, this high until eggplant glycoalkaloids may reach 25 mg intake, This can occur when the symptoms such as nausea and vomiting.

400 mg of solanine can be fatal for adults, therefore, normal to eat half a catty eggplant Xiayi Can not cause any trouble.

People heard that raw tomatoes poisonous, which is precisely the trouble of solanine. 80-100 grams of pure eating a green tomato, it is possible to reach people feel uncomfortable nausea alkali content of the eggplant.

However, the green tomato did not imagine so frightening, as long as the stop and eat, the symptoms will gradually ease. And eat more than 1.15 kilograms, have life-threatening.