Thursday April 24, 2008
Nutritionists defend starfruit
By : Nisha Sabanayagam
KUALA LUMPUR: Nutritionists have jumped to the defence of the starfruit.
They were unanimous in challenging a medical expert's opinion that the fruit was dangerous to renal failure patients because of the presence of a neurotoxin and a high level of oxalic acid.
The experts said the poisoning of an elderly Malaysian visiting China was most likely due to pesticide contamination.
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Update
Wednesday April 23, 2008
Star fruit can be poisonous for kidney patients
By AMANDA LEE
KUALA LUMPUR: All it takes is one fruit or 100ml of its juice and the ordinarily harmless star fruit becomes poison in a matter of hours for kidney patients.
University Malaya Medical Centre consultant nephrologist Prof Dr Tan Si-Yen said this was what had happened to Tang Gon Seang in China.
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Monday April 21, 2008
Malaysian in a coma in Shenzhen; two others said to have died
KUALA LUMPUR: A 66-year-old Malaysian, Tang Gon Seang, is among more than a dozen people who are in a coma after eating star fruits in Shenzhen province in China.
Wow! I know that some tropical fruits come in with such warnings as cold, heaty, prickly, thorny and such. But kill you? Wow! again. So what are those star fruits in Shenzhen?
Carambola?
Black sapote (Diospyros digyna)?
Japanese 'Fuyu' persimmon (Diospyros kaki)?
Pomegranate (Punica granatum)
Or the multi-coloured Star Apples (Chrysophyllum cainito)?
Red
Green
They should clarify what stary stary fruits consumed. We don't want those lost in translation reasons do we.
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