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Attention: Yam bean seeds, highly toxic

Editor:张焕勤
Source:english.rednet.cn
Updated:2018-10-25 15:22:16

Yam bean seeds, highly toxic, can cause death if you take 5-6 ones.

Yam bean,can be eaten raw as fruit and cooked as vegetable. But yam bean seeds contain rotenone toxin, and can serve aspesticidalraw materials.

A five-year-old kid ate yam bean seeds by mistake, and got poisoning with symptoms of vomiting, weakness of limbs and unconsciousness after 20 minutes. Luckily, the boy was saved.

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