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Diet rumors in 2012 (I): Prawns + vitamin C= eating poison?

(People's Daily Online)

08:05, December 17, 2012

Rumor says “Eating prawns and vitamin C together like eating arsenic trioxide!"

As the pseudo health knowledge, some diet rumors give out error information out of "goodwill" and raise a false alarm.

Rumor says “Eating prawns and vitamin C together like eating arsenic trioxide!"

Food that one cannot eat together include prawns and vitamin C, which will cause arsenic poisoning; cold remedy and Coke, which will cause poisoning; eggs and saccharin; tofu and honey, which will cause deafness; kelp and coagulated pig blood, which will cause constipation; potatoes and banana, which will cause freckles; beef and brown sugar, which will lead to abdominal distention; dog meat and eels, which will lead to death; mutton and mud snails, which will lead to retention of food; celery and rabbit meat, which will lead to alopecia; tomatoes and green beans, which will undermine vigor; and goose meat and pear, which will injure one's kidney.

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