Can ginkgo fruit be eaten raw?

Ginkgo fruit can be eaten raw, but not too much.

Ginkgo biloba is slightly toxic. Besides starch, protein and fat, it also contains hydrocyanic acid. Generally speaking, green embryos are the most toxic. Ginkgo biloba, as a dried fruit, must be cooked or candied. Used as medicine, cooked vinegar has a strong effect, and raw vinegar has a strong effect of clearing poison and killing insects.

But don't eat too much raw food. According to modern medical research, there is a substance similar to eagle claw alkali in ginkgo biloba. When its solution is injected into experimental animals, animals may have convulsions and eventually die of bulbar palsy.

At present, the medical community believes that children can be poisoned by eating 7 ~ 15 tablets raw, and the toxicity will be reduced after frying, but it is not advisable to eat too much at a time. Generally, it is appropriate to eat cooked food per person 15-30 tablets, and it is okay to eat more. It is appropriate to eat raw food 6- 10 tablets. Children under 5 years old should be forbidden to eat ginkgo. It is generally best not to take it for a long time.

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Nutritional value of Ginkgo biloba: Ginkgo biloba contains many nutritional elements, including vitamin C, riboflavin, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, ginkgolic acid, ginkgolic acid, pentosan and sterol, in addition to starch, protein, fat and sugar.

It has therapeutic and medical effects of benefiting lung qi, treating cough and asthma, stopping leukorrhagia, reducing stool, smoothing wrinkles, protecting blood vessels and increasing blood flow. Modern medical research shows that Ginkgo biloba also has the functions of dredging blood vessels, improving brain function, delaying brain aging of the elderly, enhancing memory ability, and treating Alzheimer's disease and cerebral blood supply insufficiency. The anti-aging ability of Ginkgo biloba leaves has great scientific influence in Germany and France.

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