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Dr. Ty Matejowsky samples durian fruit.<\/p><\/div>\n

Quick.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s a hefty fruit that can not only kill you with the wicked one-inch thorns on its thick exterior, but is so sulfurous on the inside that eating high concentrations could also prove lethal?<\/p>\n

If you guessed Southeast Asia\u2019s durian fruit, you\u2019re right. It was also Ty Matejowsky\u2019s choice when he was approached by online entertainment site Gizmodo for his opinion on the article \u201cWhat\u2019s the most dangerous food of all time?\u201d<\/a> Matejowsky, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist with a special interest in the street food of the Philippines.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cDurian has a reputation that precedes it,\u201d says Matejowsky, who sampled the spiky fruit during one of his many trips to the Philippines. \u201cIt\u2019s actually banned on public transportation in a lot of places because of the smell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matejowsky\u2019s answer was at the top of the list of the \u201cGiz asks\u201d series, which included replies from Harvard and New York universities. He suspects it\u2019s because his answer poses the most immediate danger, versus other replies like the cumulative greenhouse gases generated by cows or the long-term effects of sugar. There are documented cases of people killed both by the fruit falling from the tree (it weighs between 2 and 7 pounds) and consuming large quantities of durian in conjunction with alcohol or caffeinated drinks like coffee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve written about all kinds of street foods and the durian is definitely in a category of its own,\u201d Matejowsky says.<\/p>\n

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Quick. What\u2019s a hefty fruit that can not only kill you with the wicked one-inch thorns on its thick exterior, but is so sulfurous on the inside that eating high concentrations could also prove lethal? If you guessed Southeast Asia\u2019s durian fruit, you\u2019re right. It was also Ty Matejowsky\u2019s choice when he was approached by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":24118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,38,39,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-breaking-news","category-faculty-news","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\nGizmodo Taps Anthro Prof for Take On Dangerous Food - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/gizmodo-taps-anthro-prof-for-take-on-dangerous-food\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gizmodo Taps Anthro Prof for Take On Dangerous Food - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Quick. 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