Excessive consumption of citrus fruits, including many of your favorite tangerines, can cause severe allergies even in people who are not prone to allergic reactions. However, is this just the danger of “sunny” fruits, so popular in the winter, decorating the New Year's table so often?
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Mandarins are by nature excellent antidepressants. They cheer up, tone up, give vitality and energy. Eating these citrus fruits improves digestion. They charge the human body with vitamins. However, tasty and juicy tangerines, so popular in the winter, can cause really serious harm to health if you eat a lot of them regularly. They can be especially dangerous in childhood, although an adult can face adverse consequences.
Dangerous effects of mandarins on humans
The first danger lies in the peel of these citrus fruits. Mandarins, like many other fruits, vegetables, are subjected to special chemical processing. This is done for faster ripening of fruits and to make tangerines look attractive and tasty longer, lying on the shelves of shops. Having brought home tangerines, it’s not enough just to rinse them with running water, if there are plans to eat peel and peel. Mandarins must be doused with boiling water, and then very well wiped with a clean, dry towel. Wet fruits will deteriorate very quickly, therefore they should be stored only in a dry form. If you exclude a detailed washing of citrus fruits, then serious poisoning can be provoked.
Mandarins easily cause an allergic reaction, especially typical for children. Allergies can manifest as itching, sneezing, redness of the eyes and tearing, red spots on the surface of the skin, headache, body aches. In another form, an allergy to tangerines can manifest itself in the form of an indigestion, general malaise. If the amount of mandarins in the daily diet is huge, this will provoke the development of hypervitaminosis.
These tasty and juicy fruits contain a lot of sugar. Excessive consumption of mandarins in food leads to a jump in sugar in the body, disrupts metabolic processes. Mandarins, which are so innocuous in appearance, can cause the development of diabetes mellitus, including in childhood. In addition, they stimulate weight gain. Therefore, leaning on tangerines, you must necessarily lead an active lifestyle and very carefully monitor your well-being. 3-4 ripe small tangerines a day are unlikely to cause serious harm to health, but eating more citrus fruits on a regular basis will have dire consequences for well-being.
Despite the fact that tangerines perfectly improve digestion and relieve irregular stool, constipation, they can provoke severe diarrhea, especially in a child. These citrus fruits have an extremely high acid content. Because tangerines strongly irritate the mucous membranes of the intestines, stomach, and esophagus. They can even cause inflammation of the gums and throat, especially acidic varieties of tangerines. It is not recommended to consume these fruits on an empty stomach. Caution they should be eaten by people prone to high acidity of the stomach and heartburn. If you eat too much tangerines, you can provoke inflammatory processes and even cause an ulcer.
Mandarins are a good diuretic. They help the body get rid of toxins, waste, other unnecessary and harmful elements. But at the same time, the load on the kidneys and bladder increases significantly. Gradually, this can lead to the development of serious and dangerous painful conditions when immediate medical attention is required.
Tangerines cause severe damage to the liver. They make this body work more actively, which can lead to various violations. Mandarins can provoke or aggravate inflammatory processes affecting the liver, gall bladder.
