Lychee Fruit and Hypoglycin: How Many Are Too Many?

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3 жыл бұрын

Hypoglycin, a toxin in lychee fruit, can be harmful, but only under certain circumstances?
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@NutritionFactsOrg 3 жыл бұрын

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@tdreamgmail 3 жыл бұрын

Love solving mysteries like this. There's always a logical answer.

@leangroundbeef2322 3 жыл бұрын

only one answer will appease the vegan community. c'mon now.

@LaurenVacula 3 жыл бұрын

Always an eye opener- thank you!

@migueljavierayup7634 3 жыл бұрын

Great topic and research also. Glad we talk now about it.

@anthrogal19 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting story. I ate a ridiculous amount of lychee when I spent a season picking it in Hawaii but I was fortunate to be a healthy adult with a regular diet. When you’re picking it’s easy to eat a lot because the biggest, tastiest lychee burst open and would otherwise be discarded. I do know there are definitely some “freegan” / fruitarian people living in Hawaii that should really hear this information.

@Julottt 3 жыл бұрын

Even for fruitarians, eating more than 100-200 lychees is a lot and 200 is theorical.

@vascoamaralgrilo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@jeanneamato8278 3 жыл бұрын

Love them.

@deepakhiranandani6488 3 жыл бұрын

Good to see this, and the amounts suggested as safe. This has been baking headlines here in India in recent years.

@blakmasta 3 жыл бұрын

Good to know this, I eat lychee like its candy.

@Julottt 3 жыл бұрын

But not hundreds in a meal. 🤔

@AB-ee5tb 2 жыл бұрын

@@Julottt I can eat A LOR of lychees and rambutans. 3-4 dozen easy

@forestgreen916 3 ай бұрын

they are fun to peel and eat : )

@cainen6355 3 жыл бұрын

So, turning that around... you could basically use lichies in save amounts to reduce blood sugar. That would be interesting.

@evilcanofdrpepper 3 жыл бұрын

Do any of the related fruit like RAMBUTANS or LONGAN berries have the same effect, is there any way to deal with it or to degrade the compound? Does it end up in lychee products? Edit: according to a comment below by @UCBwTNFwe4JYJ219Cr7v1X8QRambutans do contain the compound. Could this be useful to treat people with diabetes "naturally" and if so how would you go about that? could you take some lychee extract before eating sweets and try preventing yourself from taking in too much sugar? And oh damn, I defiantly ate bags of 50-80 lychee and rambutans when I was a teenager, usually in the afternoon or evening and slept that night but good thing I went to sleep with a full stomach of food from regular meals a few hours after them.

@andrewzheng4038 3 жыл бұрын

Well, to start with 200 lychees is probably more than you'll ever eat, so its not really a concern. The toxin is common through the entire family, including longan and rambutans as already mentioned, and it does end up in products. Again, its only present in amounts that should be harmless As for diabetes, unfortunately it won't help with that. According to Wikipedia the toxin responsible for the toxicity is leads "hypoglycemia through the inhibition of gluconeogenesis, a metabolic pathway that leads to the generation of glucose from non-carbohydrate carbon sources" - in other words, it causes low blood sugar by causing your body to be unable to CREATE glucose from things like certain amino acids, lactate, etc. In diabetes, the problem is your body doesn't produce enough insulin, and as a result isn't able to ABSORB glucose and thats why you end up with high blood sugar. Ultimately high blood sugar is a side-effect of the real problem at hand - the lack of insulin. The end result of both poisoning by this toxin and diabetes is that your body isn't able to receive any usable - emphasis on usable - glucose, the former because there is no longer any glucose to use in the first place and the latter because your body doesn't have to tools to process glucose

@TheWorthyCrew 3 жыл бұрын

First like and comment. Love this guy

@kassiapencek6185 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for finding this important connection of reality. I enjoy fruit in very small quantity but as a prediabetic this is important.

@jeanneamato8278 3 жыл бұрын

I’ll keep my consumption to 9 cans. I used to love candied lychees.

@evilcanofdrpepper 3 жыл бұрын

Why would you need to candy them? they are already like candy! Have you tried rambutans or longan berries too?

@whatthefunction9140 3 жыл бұрын

Lychee is a common tree here in Hawaii

@thrisbt1 3 жыл бұрын

so i can eat the carbs that make my sugar spike ...as long as i eat lychee with them ! ?

@veganchiefwarrior6444 3 жыл бұрын

unripe as usual i guess, can you make a video on grey hair and forehead lines etc cause man its kicking in and im not even 30 yet

@UltimaN3rd 3 жыл бұрын

So unripe ackee and lychee for diabetes treatment?

@ima7333 3 жыл бұрын

200 lychees? That’s a whole lot of lychees. I love them and all fruits that i always eat my fill during all their season. Here in Indonesia the fruits people tend to overeat are mangoes & durian since their seasons are short. I often got loads of mangoes & avocados from my uncle & cousin who got 2 trees each of different varieties of mangoes. It was so much mangoes i had to make mango pudding & freeze some.

@Julottt 3 жыл бұрын

What do you call overeat on fruits? it is hard if not impossible with fresh fruits since they are so high in water especially for humans who have a frugivore anatomy perfectly adapted to ripe fresh fruits.

@ima7333 3 жыл бұрын

@@Julottt it’s more like come mango season everybody who usually won’t touch fruits suddenly turn raw “vegans” and eat only mangoes for sustenance + water. The same goes for durian season. People like my mom can eat 2 whole durian fruits (minus the skin & pits) a day. My best friend from high school could eat 10 huge mangoes a day. That is what i call overeating them.

@Julottt 3 жыл бұрын

@@ima7333 Thats not overeating if they dont vomit or feel very discomfortable after it in most cases, so rich in water, almost physically impossible but bulimia does exist indeed, it just shows how their frugivore humans body crave their optimal natural food and carbs so much especially when they dont eat enough of them the rest of the year.

@Julottt 3 жыл бұрын

I guess it would not be the best idea to break a water fast with significant amount of lychees...

@hindhimalya6245 3 жыл бұрын

Since that report was published in the newspapers, we got so cautious on even 'buying lychees..but they are so tasty you can't resist, leave aside kids, yeah those incidents were sad but for a farmer how can he imagine his own crop having toxin?

@rashie 2 жыл бұрын

👍👍

@Lyn-ud3qe 3 жыл бұрын

isnt hypoglycin also teratogenic?

@GreenPartyofMalaysia 3 жыл бұрын

Not just lychees but also unripe longans and mata kuching...

@whatwouldhousedo5136 3 жыл бұрын

I was worried when I saw the title- I LOVE lychees and gorge on them in the summer.

@Mark_Chandler 3 жыл бұрын

never had a lychee

@truefuschniken 3 жыл бұрын

💗💗💗

@StatenJM 3 жыл бұрын

I prefer Rambutan, but seems that it too may contain hypoglycin

@evilcanofdrpepper 3 жыл бұрын

Oh I was just wondering that! thanks for the answer. Now the question only remains for longan berries, however from the sound of it I'm just going to assume that they do. I really want to try lychee, longan and rambutan all together to be able to compare and contrast them to figure out what my favorite is.

@XeL__ 3 жыл бұрын

you remind me i love lychee juice GNNN whyyy the body moment is amazing love the toe jumping on important word

@codinginflow 7 ай бұрын

Why is he talking like this?

@brad5387 3 жыл бұрын

Watching this whilst eating my 9th can of lychees

@johnrichards3773 3 жыл бұрын

living in Thailand i use to gobble them up by the bag nothing happened

@Fearzero 3 жыл бұрын

You ate other foods as well. Did you not pay attention to the vid?

@johnrichards3773 3 жыл бұрын

@@Fearzero yep. i only eat plants that is a very nice fruit when in season

@Fearzero 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnrichards3773 That's why nothing happened. These children were starving and only eating these fruits which stopped their livers from producing a chemical their brains needed while they slept.

@minifix 3 жыл бұрын

I am not a hamster

@beatnikbanditracing3688 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve never even heard of lychees. I’ve heard of marshawn Lynch but not lychees

@johnmatthews4822 2 жыл бұрын

Both are fruits.

@reinux 3 жыл бұрын

Wait, so what about the arsenic and mercury?

@smudge8882 3 жыл бұрын

There wasn't any in lychees. The only reason they were mentioned was to demonstrate that old folk remedies aren't always good for you (arsenic and mercury being the examples)

@reinux 3 жыл бұрын

@@smudge8882 Derp, I misunderstood.

@smudge8882 3 жыл бұрын

@@reinux Yeah it was a pretty quick blip! I always have subtitles on but I can imagine I might not have caught it otherwise

@worstusername22 9 ай бұрын

Threw away the lychees I bought from Costco. They weren't really that good. Rather eat watermelon

@jakobw135 3 жыл бұрын

Does this problem exist also with the Lychee TEA?

@djayjp 3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@christinemarie2264 3 жыл бұрын

I don't like Lychee. They have a funny chemical taste. I thought it may have been because they were canned until I tried them fresh in Thailand. Not for me.

@tinyjungle_ 3 жыл бұрын

There's many verieties of lychee. You might be surprised.

@christinemarie2264 3 жыл бұрын

@@tinyjungle_ Maybe. I like Longan and Rambutan which look similar underneath the peel.

@tinyjungle_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@christinemarie2264 Same. Having become obsessed with fruit I've learned not to write off any particular fruit based on one or two experiences. Some fruits have thousands of cultivars and most people only encounter one or two of them because that's all that's commercially available. Try and find sweetheart lychee and give it a chance. And if you don't like that one there's probably 30-plus major varieties available in the world and hundreds of other cultivars that aren't widely available. Plus there's always a chance that the growing practices or time of harvest where off which will affect taste as well.

@cristiewanchap2645 3 жыл бұрын

"Lie-chee" is how we pronounce it..

@weirdunclebob 3 жыл бұрын

Lol, never ever heard anyone pronounce it lee-chee before! Sounds weird 😂

@antiochosyuliana7904 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not a hamster? WHAT

@eelkeaptroot1393 3 жыл бұрын

A fruit that kills hungry kids, how nasty!

@shubhammishra-cu7iq 2 жыл бұрын

Watch this video as proof: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8qKmbWi29-dmIE.html Other fun facts: I belong to the Litchee capital of the world: Muzaffarpur, India. I have Litchee garden and I am eating at least 1 kg per day for continuous 2 months during the Litchee season. I never felt any bad effect, it’s delicious and refreshing. However, I do suspect that what was shown in the video is correct because every year, almost 100s of malnourished childrens die in my region and doctors suspects that it’s because of Litchee. But nobody cares as most of us are fine eating excessive amount of Litchee during the ripe season. Thanks a lot of this informative video, let me know if I can be of any help(we have a Litchee research centre in our city fyi).

@veganchiefwarrior6444 3 жыл бұрын

fruitarians dont have this problem, must be a missing link not accounted for, aka the reason science is guesswork

@mikethebeginner 3 жыл бұрын

How about just not eating lychees at all. That’s what I do.

@Julottt 3 жыл бұрын

But they are so good!

@andrewzheng4038 3 жыл бұрын

you're missing out, they're some of the best tasting fruits out there. The lychees aren't going to hurt you anyways unless you're A) already low blood sugar and/or B) consume an unreasonable amount like 200 in one sitting.

@maremacd 3 жыл бұрын

How helpful is this information supposed to be to the majority of your viewers??? How many of us eat a huge number of lychees? I really dislike the ridiculously esoteric content. It’s a waste of everyone’s time.

@tinyjungle_ 3 жыл бұрын

Always someone looking for a reason to complain. Did someone force you to press play after reading the title and hold your eyes open?