Nanas Consumption Makes Mouth Feel Itching, This Is The Cause

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JAKARTA - If a bite of pineapple fruit makes your tongue tingling, your cheeks burn, or you want to scratch the interior of your mouth, then you are not alone. This condition is caused by an enzyme called bromelain, according to a 2019 letter in the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Bromelain is a protease or kind of enzyme that breaks the protein into amino acids and this is why pineapple is also a very good meat leaker.

"Currently, there is not much evidence about the feasibility of bromealam or the way the enzyme is felt in your mouth. But maybe after eating some pineapple slices, you'll start to feel the bromelaws break down some proteins and then form a mukosa protective layer in your mouth," said pharmacologist at the University of Turin, Italy, Alessandro Colletti., as quoted by ANTARA from Livescience.

Then, is it possible eating too much pineapple will harm you? According to Collety, this is still questionable. He noted, brometry is not harmful to humans.

When eating pineapple, the concentration of bromelain is around 500 micrograms per milliliter. So the concentration is not too high. This is even safe in much higher concentrations," he said.

For example, another brometric oral gel, which has a concentration 200-400 times larger than fresh pineapple, can be applied directly to the mouth because its anti-inflammatory nature can offset sariawan due to chemotherapy. In addition, your mouth quickly begins to replace one of the cells damaged by bromealain to prevent permanent damage or changes in pineapple protection, according to a Bon Apprentit report.

Other tropical fruits, such as papaya, have similar procedures but do not leave a bad taste in the mouth. The nature of pineapple acid may be one of the causes of its strange effects, said professor of food engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Paul Takhistov to Self.

According to Healthline, pineapple usually has pHs 3 and 4 (neutral scorers 7). Takhistov hypothesizes, bromealain dissolves some protein in the mouth, which makes your mouth more sensitive to irritation by pineapple acidity. Collletti added, bromelain itself can have an acidic taste, which may add to the acidic experience.