Some blogger was saying fruit contains methanol (rubbing alcohol), but then I read that methanol is created in the body after eating fruit. Anybody heard this before?
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You can check the amount of alcohol on a per-fruit basis on nutritiondata.org. They're all 0 as far as I can tell.
As for methanol being created in the body after eating fruit, i've never heard of this, but even if it does, it's important to quantify the amount. Certain amounts of methanol in the body are completely normal, and possibly even important. For example, methanol metabolizes into formaldehyde, and in small amounts, formaldehyde is used by the body instantly after its producton. Formaldehyde is a metabolite needed for DNA producton, for example.
So without quantifying the amounts, this is a bit of a moot conversation.
Fascinating!
News to me.
Might it be a tad overripe?
haha. no idea...