Areca catechu is generally used as a kind of leisure food for people eating and is deeply loved by more and more people nowadays as well as chewing areca catechu has become a kind of people’s habit, the same as chewing gum in daily life. However, frequently eating areca catechu will be harmful to the body and next let me keep you informed of the disadvantages of frequently eating areca catechu as much as i can.

Cause periodontal disease. Generally through smoke curing or baking, chewing areca catechu will easily make teeth blacken and the mouthfeel of areca catechu is very hard as well as frequently chewing areca catechu will not only abrase the teeth, but also cause decayed teeth and will easily cause periodontal disease.

Cause food poisoning. Excessively chewing areca catechu will absorb plenty of main ingredients of areca catechu, such as arecoline, arecaidine and so on substances without benefits, all of which will cause drunkenness, shuddering, rude emotion and so on toxic symptoms.

Cause cancer. Areca catechu contains lots of tannin, empyreumatic oil, alkaline substances and it has been proved that all of these substances contained in areca catechu will easily cause cancer, so frequently chewing areca catechu will easily cause oral cancer, esophagus cancer, throat cancer and so on cancers.

In addition to all above points, there are also other disadvantages of frequently eating areca catechu worthy of attention, such as cause abortion, be addicted and so on. Therefore, please pay more attention to the all above points so as to avoid these problems.