It appears, some fruit from our daily diet are considered as poisonous. Deaths happen quite seldom as in the majority at the correct processing they don't represent harm. However nevertheless it is worth treating some fruit with care.
Poisonous fruit
Poison in fruit mainly contains in stones. For example, such toxic agent as cyanide in small amounts is present at stones of a peach, plum, cherry and an apricot. If accidentally to eat 1-2 stones of these berries, harm to health won't be. However at hit in a human body in large numbers cyanic hydrogen can cause many problems.
At light degree of poisoning such symptoms as nausea, a disorientation, vomiting, dizziness, uneasiness, a headache are possible. If poisoning passed into heavier stage, at the person the blood pressure can increase, be broken a warm rhythm, breath will become complicated. Even the lethal outcome is in certain cases possible.
Apples are absolutely safe for people, and here stones of apples contain cyanide too. But its dose is much less here, than, for example, in stones of a peach or cherry. Therefore only at the use of a large number of apple stones it is possible to do harm to health. Poisonous fruit, to be exact stones in them, don't pose a special threat. The thing is that the adult human body is capable to fight against cyanide if its dose is small. And here cyanide is very dangerous to children even in minute quantities. The children's organism can simply not cope with such loadings. Most concerns also animals.
What poisonous fruit exist still
Speaking about poisonous fruit, it is worth mentioning surely and about poisonous vegetables which often enter a food allowance of the person. Green tomato in some countries is considered vegetable, in others – fruit, in the third – berry. Anyway, in whatever country the tomato grew, its leaves and stalks contain glycoalkaloid. This agent is very toxic. Poisoning with it can be followed by such symptoms as indigestion, a severe headache, nervousness. Glycoalkaloid content in tomatoes isn't enough so they don't constitute essential danger. The plant which fruits are considered as poisonous is an asparagus. As a rule, for cooking not fruits of an asparagus, but its stalks are used. The fruit is the top sprout of a plant. It is quite often used by culinary specialists at preparation of refined dishes. Also on a plant red berries are poisonous. They are absolutely small, however at hit are inside very dangerous to the person.