What is carambola like?

Berries are fleshy, drooping, 5-sided, rarely 6 or 3-sided, star-shaped in cross section, 5-8 cm long, light green or waxy yellow, and sometimes dark red. The seeds are dark brown. Flowering period is April-65438+February, and fruiting period is July-65438+February.

Growing on roadsides, in sparse forests or gardens. Warm and humid tree species. Areas with frost and cold cannot grow. It grows well in the middle and low altitude areas with annual average temperature of 20-26℃, extreme minimum temperature of 2-7℃ and annual precipitation1000-2400 mm.

I like light, but I don't like some shadows either. It likes to grow in moist and fertile soil, but it can also grow and bear fruit under dry and barren site conditions, but its growth situation is quite different, with many fallen flowers and small fruits. The suitable soil is red soil or yellow-red latosol, and the surface layer is sandy loam over 5-20 cm.

Precautions for extended information: Don't eat carambola if you have kidney disease.

Carambola can indeed be a killer for patients with kidney disease, and careless consumption may bring life-threatening problems. However, this toxic effect has not attracted people's attention for a long time because of its small impact on people.

However, some scholars have observed that when people with normal renal function are hungry, or after sweating a lot (the body is in a state of water shortage), a large amount of carambola juice will be consumed in a short time, and blood creatinine will suddenly rise, leading to acute renal failure.

If patients with kidney disease eat too much carambola, the neurotoxin contained in it will cause some patients with kidney disease to have symptoms such as unconsciousness, weakness of limbs, numbness of hands and feet, and even coma. Even if patients with renal failure eat a carambola, they will have different degrees of toxic reactions, and severe cases will quickly develop into uremia and even death.

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People's Daily Online-Health Tips: Don't eat carambola if you have kidney disease.