Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also ...

The fugu or puffer fish is one of the most poisonous creature on the planet with toxins 1,200 times more deadly than cyanide.

Eating unripe Ackee fruit may result in the metabolic syndrome known as ‘Jamaican vomiting sickness’, which can cause severe vomiting, seizures, hypothermia, coma, and death. This Japanese ...

Despite these precautions, several cases of poisoning are reported each year from people eating fugu. While some people believe that there is nothing wrong with enjoying small portions of this ...

so winter is ideal fugu season. Despite the Russian roulette stereotype, people rarely fall ill from eating pufferfish in restaurants, he says. Problems usually stem from amateurs who catch the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Is there an ingredient with a more dangerous reputation than fugu? Surely not. The noxious Japanese puffer fish is notorious the ...

This means that she is now certified to slice and gut the fish for eating. She recently served a platter of paper-thin slices of raw fugu to the governor of the southern Kumamoto region.

Occasionally, unlicensed individuals eat fugu caught in the sea and die. Yamaguchi does not have an age limit to take the fugu test, but in Kumamoto Kimura can only prepare fugu dishes when ...

A Japanese 10-year-old has become the youngest person authorized to prepare "fugu" pufferfish — a delicacy that can kill if its poisonous parts are not properly removed. Fifth grader Karin ...

Fugu consumption can be lethal if even minute ... "Watching his precise cuts I feel a mix of fascination and unease. The idea of eating something that could kill me is terrifying.