For ripening fruits like mango, calcium carbide application is well known having low market price, though it has controversy. i would like to know if anyone use on mango for ripening , how many days carbide toxicity exist.
Dear Rakibuzzaman Mony ,
First of all, Calcium carbide treatment of food is usually considered as "extremely hazardous" because it is known to cause cancer and also causes various health problems like headache, dizziness, mood disturbances, sleepiness, mental confusion, memory loss, cerebral edema, seizures, prolonged hypoxia, food poisoning, gastric irritation and mouth ulcers.
However, some experts engaged in food safety research have a sort of "soft approach" towards the use of carbide on mangoes and bananas for ripening. As per their opinion, the use of Carbide does not pose any health threat since both mango and banana have thick skins and are consumed after peeling.
Dear, Mahamud Hasan Prince thanks for your opinion, but why calcium carbide is harmful, what is the reason, actually do you have any data related this. China produces more than 400000 ton C2H2 from cac2 and it is the gaseous form helps to ripe the fruit,
Have any residual effect and if have, how many days it exist? if anyone use it as optimum doses ?
Rakibuzzaman Mony,
There are studies that calcium carbide breaks down the organic composition of vitamins and other micro-nutrients. Also, during the production of industrial grade CaC2, trace amounts of arsenic and phosphorous are present. Arsenic has carcinogenic properties. Both arsenic and phosphorous are toxic.
C2H2 is formed from CaC2 and H2O, this is, however, NOT ethylene which is the natural hormone for ripening, so the fruit also doesn't have the same properties or taste very good along with the detrimental effects to our health.
A number of previous studies have shown that calcium carbide is highly toxic due to its content of some toxic chemical like Arsenic and phosphorus which are well known to be hazardous.
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