Little known risk: This is how you can tell in good time whether a pumpkin is poisonous

Now pumpkins are back in many shapes and colors on every corner.

The vegetables taste delicious, but harbor a little-known danger.

Cucurbits, which of course include the pumpkin, but also zucchini and cucumber, can cause severe food poisoning, which in rare cases can even lead to death.

Poisonous pumpkins: Especially self-sufficient in danger

What many amateur cooks and gardeners do not know: Pumpkins and the like can

contain

the

.

This was bred from the cultivated pumpkin varieties, but especially those who grow pumpkins in their own garden can

harvest specimens that contain the poison again

through

or accidental

pumpkins

.

But over-

can also lead to an increased level of the dangerous toxin.

You have to be particularly careful with home-grown plants and their seeds.

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Cucurbitacin makes the pumpkin poisonous

When

bitter substance cucurbitacin

and dissolves them.

of cucurbitacin poisoning are:

• nausea

• Vomit

• Abdominal cramps

• diarrhea

If consumed in large quantities, the poison can

cause

damage.

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This is how you can tell if the pumpkin is poisonous

Again and again it comes to

by pumpkins or zucchini.

Fortunately, serious poisoning is rare.

Any incident could be avoided if you follow this simple rule:

.

If the pumpkin tastes very bitter, the poison is present in too high a concentration.

Spit out the specimen immediately and discard the pumpkin immediately.

In contrast to the toxin phytohemagglutinin, which makes raw beans inedible, cucurbitacin is retained

.

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