May is a good time to eat lychees. Do you like them? But recently, it came out on the Internet that drinking and driving will be found after eating lychees. More netizens said that "one lychee is drunk driving, three lychees are drunk driving". What's the matter with litchi drunk driving? So don't go on the road immediately after eating litchi, or the drunk driving will be wronged.
In response, the reporter interviewed experts from the traffic police corps of the provincial public security department and Hainan Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Zhou Pinghu, a spokesman for the traffic police corps of the Provincial Public Security Bureau, said that Haikou traffic police detachment had done several experiments to test alcohol by eating litchi in the past few years. 'each person's physique is different, and the test results are also different from person to person. "Zhou Pinghu said that it is true that some people initially tested the alcohol content as 0mg / 100ml. After eating several lychees, the alcohol content exceeded 20mg / 100mL, meeting the 'drinking driving' standard, which we often call 'drinking driving'.
Why do people get drunk when they eat a few lychees? Hu Fuchu, a deputy researcher at the Tropical Fruit Research Institute of Hainan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told reporters that the sugar in the pulp will produce alcohol and carbon dioxide after anaerobic respiration. Litchi has a high content of sugar. After being picked from the tree, photosynthesis will be reduced, and cells inside litchi will lack oxygen, which will increase the speed of anaerobic respiration, resulting in the speed of ethanol production. 'so the more mature litchi is, the more likely it is to produce ethanol. Hu Fuchu also said that in addition to litchi, grapes and many other fruits, there are similar situations.
What about the driver's alcohol detected after eating litchi? Xu Chao, a clinical nutrition doctor at Haikou People's Hospital, said that the glycolysis of litchi's anaerobic respiration can produce ethanol, which can lead to the detection of alcohol. Just take a rest after eating litchi, and the ethanol in the mouth will disappear.
'people can eat lychees at ease. At present, there is no case in Hainan where people have been wrongly judged to drink or drive because of eating lychees. "Zhou Pinghu said that if a driver breathes out after eating litchi and detects drunk driving, don't worry, explain to the police first, rest for 5 minutes on the side of the road, rinse with water and then test again. If there is any doubt, he can apply for a blood test. The driver doesn't have to worry about the situation of 'being drunk driving'.
In addition, the general drinking 8 to 24 hours after blood test can be detected. Therefore, if the driver really drinks alcohol and wants to cover it up by pretending to eat lychees, it is impossible to muddle through.