Anise, also known as “big material”, is a common cooking seasoning in our lives. But commonly used star anise, there are actually false, and highly toxic! “Fake anise” – Mangzhao Mangzhao, also known as false anise or wild anise, similar in appearance and anise. There are highly toxic. Misuse of food will have dizziness, nausea and vomiting symptoms; a large number of ingested will produce convulsions of the limbs, foaming at the mouth and other epileptic-like symptoms, causing heart failure and death in severe cases. Anise can be sold for about 40 yuan per kilogram, while mangosteen is only sold for about 15 yuan per kilogram. So, some lucrative manufacturers and traders will be mixed in the anise mangosteen inside the sale. How to distinguish between real and fake anise 1, identify the shape of anise is usually full of individual, exposed fruit, there are 7-10 rounded obtuse horns, generally 8 horns; false anise fruit is generally not exposed, the fruit petals will not open, there are 11-13 thin horns, each corner of the tip will be cocked, like an eagle hook. 2, identify the color of real star anise for brown-red and shiny; false star anise role lighter, with earthy yellow. 3, identify the taste of real star anise strong flavor, taste of sweet; fake star anise has a flower water or camphor odor, lick the sour taste, there is a sense of hemp tongue. Recognize the “false anise”! The following are poisonous mangosteen, must tell the family, in the market encountered such a “big material”, must not buy! Look super like food toxic plants 1, poisonous celery: leaf shape like celery poisonous celery, leaf shape like celery leaves, the whole tree are toxic, to the flower of the most toxic. Once accidentally eaten will appear nausea, vomiting, cold hands and feet, limb paralysis, serious can cause death. Spring digging wild vegetables encountered similar to celery plants must be far away. 2, auricularia: seedlings look like soybean sprouts growing in the fields, roadsides and depressions. March and April seedlings, seedlings like soybean sprouts, sunny places and like sunflower seedlings; adult thick, leaves like heart-shaped, serrated around the fall with hard spiny seeds. The whole plant is poisonous, young shoots and seeds of the most toxic, eating can cause death. 3, Tannenbaum: roots like ginseng Tannenbaum commonly known as the big head ginseng, can be used as medicine. But not too much to eat, into the medicine of adults generally not more than 1.5 ~ 4.5 grams, 10 grams or more will cause poisoning. Due to the light weight of children, the amount of adult dose halved, eating more than 5 grams will be poisoned. 4, threaded snails: eat 10 minutes to become a vegetable There have been media reports, Fujian 58-year-old Ms. Chen consumed 6 two threaded snails after poisoning, doctors said that its cranium and brain for a long time lack of oxygen, or become a vegetable. The threaded snail is only a fingernail cap large, after eating can cause dizziness, vomiting and other symptoms of poisoning. Reminder: do not buy and do not eat threaded snails, if accidentally eaten after the numbness of the mouth and lips and other symptoms, should immediately seek medical attention.