Can You Eat Longan Seeds? How to Eat Them?

　　Yumicherry Kernels are a long-standing medicinal herb and can be eaten, but they are rarely consumed by people. Fried yumic kernels can be eaten raw or after being cooked with sugar for better taste.

Fried yumic kernels have diuretic and wound-healing effects as traditional Chinese medicine, often used to treat athlete's foot or dental lesions. After eating the flesh of yummies, break open the remaining pits to get the white kernel inside, which can be used fresh or dried for later use.

Modern medical research on fried yumic kernels has discovered that they contain a substance called B17, which shows significant antitumor effects against stomach cancer cells.

Although fried yumic kernels are edible and have certain medicinal benefits. Swallowing them directly is more harmful than beneficial. People in many yummies-producing areas believe swallowing the pits can cleanse the intestines and cool the body. In fact, this claim is extremely absurd; ingesting the kernels cannot be digested or absorbed, so how can they exert therapeutic or health benefits?

If you do not swallow too many kernels, they will be expelled intact. Swallowing a large number of kernels at once may cause intestinal obstruction and even threaten life.