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AN elderly Thai man died after over-indulging in the notoriously pungent durian fruit, police said today, becoming the kingdom's second person to die this month from consuming the so-called king of fruit.
Thavin Chaiya, 68, collapsed at a fresh produce market in the northern Thai province of Chiang Mai Sunday after eating durian, police said.
"He ate it there at the market with friends. After eating for a while, he was asking for water and then he fell to the floor and convulsed," a local police officer said.
"He was known to drink a lot of alcohol, but he was not eating with alcohol at the time," the officer said, adding that the man died on the way to hospital.
Thavin was the second durian-related death this month, after a diabetic Thai civil servant from the central province of Singburi died during an eating binge on four durians.
That death sparked a warning by Thailand's Ministry of Public Health against excessive durian consumption.
The ministry advised eating no more than two segments of durian a day, warning that the fruit's calorie content posed a threat to people with high blood pressure, heart conditions and diabetes.
Thais consider durian to be a "hot" food that should not be mixed with alcohol and which should be offset by consuming other "cooling" foods.
The health ministry urged people to follow the traditional practice of eating durians with mangosteens, as the milder fruit reputedly induces the necessary "cooling" effect.
The spiny durian fruit is banned from most department stores and airlines in Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia because of its pungent aroma.
Famously called the fruit the 'tastes like heaven but tastes like hell,' Durian disagrees with most western tastebuds for its rank smell (one that most closely resembles a backed up toilet!). Its creamy texture wrapped around the large seeds is considered by many Filipinos along with many Asians, as a delicacy, and tasted creamy and cooling on the tongue when chewed. If you can get beyond the smell, you too may enjoy this Asian delicacy. The fruit is famously banned from planes, buses and even some hotels all over Asia, and has even been the cause of some deaths in large cities when ripening spiky specimens have rolled off highrise apartment blocks before clonking a passer-by on the head, far below.
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