Some foods and dishes are considered delicacies, but not because of their taste and appearance. This "title" they receive because of their danger to health. And why is it so pleasant to people ?!
This selection is not about hamburgers, French fries and soda. A very little known about the other dishes and products around the world.
The most dangerous planets products
Not all the food is prepared the same way.
Puffer fish is well known for its deadly if it is not prepared with the proper respect to the quantity of venom, and almost any moldy food can cause health problems.
Quickly eaten or badly chopped food can be suppressed.
However, some types of food made especially dangerous. They can cause injuries or severely harm the health, even if they are perfectly prepared.
Deliberately dangerous courses from this category require careful and sometimes protective equipment so that they can be consumed in food, and some of the dishes on this list are even illegal.
Sannakji (Sannakji)
Octopus - fascinating creatures. They are among the most intelligent creatures on the planet and have a brain and nervous system, it is completely different from ours.
Their tentacles are capable of directed and independent movement even in the cut condition. Therefore, as in South Korea, you have to be very careful when eating sannakji - dishes from live octopus. Octopus cut into small pieces, poured soy sauce or caraway (sesame) oil and then eaten. Octopus is usually still alive when it is eaten, and each tentacle is quite capable to move. There were cases when they tried to strangle the people eating them. It often happens that the suction cups on the tentacles dig into his throat, and the average in South Korea, there are up to 6 deaths per year from strangulation octopus tentacles while eating meals sannakji. There have been several cases where the tentacles crawled mouth into the nasal cavity of the nasopharynx. It is believed that the danger and "liveliness" of the dish to improve its taste.
Cas Marzio (Casu Marzu)
On the island of Sardinia, in Italy, there is a kind of local cheese, which was prohibited by law because of non-compliance with hygiene. Nevertheless, he continues to be part of the culture presumably because of its great taste. Casu Marzu - a cheese made from sheep's milk. During its manufacture injected larvae special flies in it. The larvae eat the cheese, and their digestive juices ferment much more intense than in other types of fermented cheeses. Fermentation lasts until until the cheese begins to decompose. When the cheese is almost liquid - it is ready for eating. By this time, thousands of larvae that are still in the cheese, become able to jump up to 15 cm when touched. Therefore, while eating cheese can be expected that the consumer will fly larvae in the face. Usually, before the meal, wear protective glasses to the larvae could not cause injury.
Lutefisk (Lutefisk)
In Scandinavia you can enjoy lutefisk, which can not be compared with any of the seafood dishes. Fish soaked in a concentrated alkaline solution of sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide. Once it is soaked in this way for several days, the alkaline solution breaks down proteins in fish and causes them to swell into a large jelly-like mass. If the fish get wet through leave for too long, fats may even start to turn into soap. After several days of soaking in an alkaline solution, the fish should be put on a week in fresh water that it was safe to eat, as without it, it can cause chemical burns. The final product - Lutefisk - has a pH value of 12, which makes it highly corrosive and 100,000 times more alkaline than water. Lutefisk is so alkaline that it can not eat certain types of cutlery. Silver is corroded, and any dish or pan with the remnants of lutefisk, left for the night, will be corroded and corrupt. Lutefisk can cause severe pain in people suffering from a stomach ulcer, or similar disease of the gastrointestinal tract.
Datura (Datura)
In most countries in the world the maturity achieved by simply growing up to a certain age. However, age is not an indicator of many cultures, and many of the rituals of initiation into adulthood are associated with strange and dangerous actions. In America, one of the Indian tribes used the flower Brugmansia to determine the degree of readiness of the boy to become a man. In the fruit contains a poison intoxication, which causes severe delirium, fever, heart palpitations, aggressive behavior, irretrievable loss of memory and other physical and mental disorders. Flower has caused many thousands of unexpected deaths, when it accidentally ate children or adults when taking it in the wrong dose. Datura intoxication is the most terrible of all known substances. According to the ritual, a certain boy from the tribe to eat very carefully calculated amount dope before his zatochat in a cell for a few weeks, his violence is not harmed others. The boy passed the test, the man proclaimed. Memory loss has been a key aspect of this ritual, because amnesia caused by dope on legend was to make one forget how to be a child, making it ready for an adult life.
Unfortunately, psychological trauma, resulting from intoxication, were often permanent, as a result of that boy could no longer understand how to eat, talk, or as a whole to function as human. Many young people have been brought to a state of retarded skins of those who they were before.
Tea "Urush» (Urushi)
In Japan, people have practiced extreme form of Buddhism called Sokuschinbutsu (Sokushinbutsu). One of the strangest aspects of this doctrine was to achieve enlightenment through mummification itself alive for several years. A key part of the ritual was a tea made from wood urushi (lacquer tree). This tree contains a lethal amount of venom, called "concentrated urushiol," which is also found in poison ivy, although in much smaller quantities. Tea was used to provoke an extreme and violent reaction. The body almost immediately lost all of the liquid through the pores, and the remaining flesh was very toxic. This tea was perfect for mummification, as it provides an almost complete removal of water from the body in order to avoid decomposition and the remaining flesh was too toxic even for the larvae. If the tea is prepared as it should, it's not as deadly, but the monks used it before his death, to ensure a perfect mummification, to prevent decay and decomposition of the body. At the moment, Japan is forbidden to drink tea urushi.
Antimony
Contraceptives are used by humans for tens of thousands of years, but some species use their own forms of birth control even longer. Koalas eat special plants to change their hormone levels, gaining thereby control over their fertility.
Alpine marmot mother struggling with their recently become pregnant daughters to bring up their miscarriage if approaching winter, because winter is not only the pregnancy is terminated, but also the pregnant female marmot dies.
Although most modern human contraceptives less extreme, in the past they were anything other than poison. Antimony is a toxic metalloid, which causes inflammation and rupture of the heart, seizures, massive organ damage and death. However, in small doses, antimony causes only headaches, depression, vomiting and dizziness. In medieval Europe, people purposefully consumed in small doses, antimony. Such dosage causes stress the body of sufficient strength to act as a contraceptive tablet, but not to cause serious damage, with the exception of vomiting, headaches and minor convulsions. People also used antimony to induce vomiting so they can eat more food or to clean the intestines. Antimony pills passed around the gastrointestinal tract, then they are cleaned and used again. Often, the same pill used as a family from generation to generation.
Physostigma venenosum (Calabar Beans)
In the tropics of Africa grows "physostigma venenosum" highly toxic vegetable. His eating causes damage to the nervous system, muscle spasms, convulsions, loss of control of the bladder and intestines, as well as the cessation of breathing, leading to death from asphyxiation. Accordingly, the beans of this plant is not eaten. Instead, people from the region of Calabar, in southern Nigeria, use these beans as a test to confirm or refute a person's innocence. If someone has been accused of committing a crime, but not enough evidence, such as for sentencing in the case of a person accused of witchcraft or adultery, poisonous beans used for making sentence. By tradition, the accused must swallow the beans and wait for the result. If the beans are poisonous kill a person, it is considered that he is guilty, and his death was retribution of the gods. If the stomach cramps caused by poison, cause a person to pull out the beans before they cause irreparable harm health, it is believed that the Gods found him not guilty, and he is exempt from incurring any penalty for the crime.
Shrimp Cocktail restaurant «St. Elmo Steak House »
Plants can not evade and escape, the animals, and so they have to be more inventive in regard to their self-defense. Many have developed the ability to produce large quantities of chemicals that cause irritation and smarting from any herbivores, dared them to try. Despite the fact that these chemicals are a powerful deterrent against most animals, some people specifically looking for products that contain them. Allyl isocyanate (Allyl isothiocyanate) or mustard oil up to five times more lethal than arsenic same mass. Despite the fact that people usually develop resistance to small amounts of chemicals in food, small restaurant in Indiana, USA, offers a dish specially created for a person to test your limit resistance. Specialty «St. Elmo Steak House »is shrimp cocktail for spice which is obtained from 9 kg of grated horseradish containing mustard oil. The feeling of eating this dish, according to the description, compared with a powerful discharge current flowing through the body.
Naga Dzholokiya (Naga Jolokia)
Some plants brought his self-defense to a new level.
Such plants - peppers, chili - use capsaicin, which is 3 times stronger than the mustard oil. It is the deadliest in the world chemical that can be found only in foods consumed by man.
Less than 4 grams of this substance is enough to kill a large adult.
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