What happens if you eat 6 jin of cherries in 5 days, and how many grams of fruit is appropriate to eat per day?

Do you know what happens if you eat too many cherries? A woman ate too many cherries and passed “bloody stool” more than 20 times in one night before fainting. She was taken to the hospital by her family.

At 5 p.m. on the third day of the Chinese New Year, Ms. Wang had just gotten off the plane when she felt a sharp cramp in her abdomen. When she went to the restroom, she found that it was all “bloody stool.” She forced herself to make it to the hotel, where she ran back and forth to the restroom, passing stool that looked like red jam the whole time, tossing back and forth more than 20 times throughout the night. She drank water mixed with rehydration salts, but unexpectedly ended up fainting in the bathroom.

Early the next morning, her family hurriedly sent Ms. Wang to Wuhan No. 1 Hospital. After seeing her, associate chief physician Min Kai of the Gastrointestinal Surgery Department immediately performed a fecal occult blood test and an electrolyte level test, and no problems were found.

After examining the sample, Min Kai suspected that Ms. Wang’s “fake bloody stool” was caused by red pigment. After repeated questioning, Ms. Wang then remembered that starting from the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, she had eaten about 6 jin of cherries for 5 days in a row, and before getting off the plane she had eaten forty or fifty cherries in one go. “This is acute gastroenteritis caused by eating too many cherries.”
 

The daily fruit amount recommended by the China Nutrition Association is 200-400 grams. Ms. Wang ate 6 jin of cherries in 5 days, greatly exceeding the maximum fruit amount for many consecutive days, so it is not surprising that she felt unwell.

The director of the nutrition department pointed out that fruit is cold in nature and flavor, and the winter weather is cold, so it is not suitable to eat a large amount of fruit, especially for people with a weak and cold constitution. “We advocate eating local seasonal foods.” She explained that Chongqing and Wuhan have similar climates, and winter fruits are mainly citrus fruits. Warm-natured fruits such as mandarin oranges, tangerines, and pomelos are the most suitable, but do not eat more than 400 grams at a time.