To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] King of fruits?
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:36:46 -0700 (PDT)
I always was suspicious of eating fruit that smells like dirty diapers. Tastes great though.
From: "Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov" <Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:01:04 AM Subject: [NAFEX] King of fruits?
ACCORDING to Asian folklore, eating the famously pungent durian - known as the "king of fruits" - along with alcohol can kill you. Now intrepid researchers have confirmed there may be some truth in this supposition. It is the first time combining a fruit with booze has been scientifically linked to an adverse reaction. John Maninang and Hiroshi Gemma from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, wondered if the reported side effects were due to durian's high sulphur content impairing alcohol breakdown. In test tubes they found that durian extract inhibited the activity of aldehyde dehydrogenase - an enzyme that clears toxic breakdown products - by up to 70 per cent (Food Chemistry, DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.03.106).
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