Why risk your life to eat it? Fatal attraction

1 year ago

Puffer fish refers to bony fish class, puffer shape order, puffer family of fish. Its delicious meat, rich nutrition, is a rare high-grade aquatic products, known as the "crown of dishes", but its ovaries, liver, kidney, eyes, blood contains highly toxic, improper handling or accidental eating, light poisoning, serious death.

All puffer fish contain the TTX neurotoxin. Although the neurotoxin in different species of puffer fish varies in potency, just 16 milligrams of either type is enough to kill a person weighing 70 kilograms. If injected, you don't need 2 milligrams. When threatened, the puffer bulges and raises its spikes to fend off attackers.

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